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Goodman, APR, Fellow PRSA Successful students naturally get accolades. They receive awards and privileges. They get to lead clubs, like honor societies and student councils. This is appropriate. They worked hard for it. And the school community shows that it values them and their success.  \nAnd then there are the students who struggle. It shows up in their grades. It shows up in their repeated absences. It shows up in their disciplinary referrals. These are the students whose parents cringe when the school’s phone number shows up on their caller ID. It’s always bad news.  \nUntil one day, a teacher, a counselor or a principal says to the student,“I see you.” Something magical happens when these youth hear: “I see leadership in you. I know of some elementary students who need your help.”  \nThat magic happens when these students are introduced to the IDRA Valued Youth Partnership (VYP). The school demonstrates that it values them too.  \n“I thought that I wasn’t good because I had many problems,” a tutor shared. “I thought I was a nobody. But when I started talking to my tutees and working with them, I felt different. Now I know that I can be somebody, and I can help others to do the same.”  \nTurning an Idea into Something Powerful  \nFor four decades, VYP has helped schools and communities see what is on the inside – the inherent value and potential of each child.  \nThe seeds of the program drew from the crossage tutoring experiences of many future IDRA leaders prior to IDRA’s founding. Also at the time, peer and cross-age tutoring was being used to help alleviate the U.S. teacher shortage.  \nVYP took shape first as a dropout prevention and youth leadership program. The notion of uplifting youth who were in at-risk situations (cont. on Page 2)  \n“When Ifirst started VYP, I didn’t think that I could ever have a meaning in a person’s life. But being in the VYP has shown me that my presence matters.”  \n– Carly Oliver, VYP tutor  \nMay 2025 id ra newsletter 1  \nFocus: Legacies Shaping Public Education    \n(Valuable from the Start, continued from Page 1)  \ncame from IDRA’s belief in helping students most harmed by inequities and injustices in school systems.  \nIn 1984, Coca-Cola USA approached then-San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros about starting a dropout prevention initiative for Latino youth as their national dropout rate was as high as 80%. (Danini Supik, 1994)  \nIDRA was in the midst of its landmark study on attrition rates in Texas. It was the first study of dropouts in the state. Schools were losing one in three students from high school, and three out of 10 Texas dropouts had completed fewer than nine years of schooling when they left. About half of all Latino students in Texas dropped out before entering the ninth grade. Schools were losing more than half of their Black students as well.  \nCisneros contacted IDRA founder and director José Cárdenas, Ed.D., and IDRA was subsequently awarded a four-year grant to create a new model to operate in four San Antonio school districts.  \nThe IDRA Valued Youth Partnership was born. Built on the philosophy that “all children are valuable; none is expendable,” this in-school program works by identifying youth who are in at-risk situations and enlisting them as tutors for elementary school youngsters who are also struggling in school.  \nGiven this role of personal and academic responsibility, the Valued Youth tutors learn selfdiscipline and develop self-esteem. 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