Good Trouble
Outcompeting Streets & Screens TM
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Chief Troublemaker, Jose Perez, interviewed by Minnesota Public Radio
Good Trouble is a youth-led movement with the mission to make schools outcompete streets and screens by pushing educators and policymakers to practice three beliefs: 1) Youth are not the problem, they are key to the solution, 2) Everyone has a unique gift to give and we, the public, are in desperate need of receiving those gifts, and 3) We must put aces in places where gifts are honored and positioned for full potential.
"Ordinary people with extraordinary vision can redeem the soul of America by getting in what I call good trouble, necessary trouble."
"Ordinary people with extraordinary vision can redeem the soul of America by getting in what I call good trouble, necessary trouble."
REP. JOHN LEWIS | 1940-2020
Civil Rights Leader and Congressman
OUR APPROACH
Good Trouble’s unique gift is to transform high schools through student feedback. Youth guide adults through a 3-step process we call Youth Saving Learning.
STUDENT-LED LISTENING
Peer-to-peer focus groups for authentic feedback
COLLECTIVE SENSEMAKING
Student, staff, parent and community members review focus group data to surface findings and solutions
MAKING GOOD TROUBLE
Turn shared mindsets & insights into action by shifting policies, practices, systems
Most Recent Work
Most Recent Work
Hosted Youth Justice Community Forum in partnership with Hennepin County Attorney's Office and Legal Rights Center. Panelists included Hennepin County Attorney and Head of DOJ's youth justice office
Co-led November 2023 Youth Policy Forum at MN Capitol engaging 70 youth leaders in policy development
Testified on teacher licensure policy at February 2023 MN Legislature
Selected by Center for Policy Design to develop strategy to educate and engage MN student leaders about the New Technology of Learning including mentorship from school and district leaders.
Co-published recommendations report, Transform Schools to Transform Lives: Why Justice-Involved Youth are Reimagining School, including evaluation write-up by Wilder Research and EQ Learning.
Ramsey & Hennepin counties selected Good Troublemakers to serve on youth advisory councils including the Hennepin chair
Co-designed a middle school with the High School of Recording Arts in St. Paul
Good Trouble is preparing to launch the Youth Saving Learning campaign for Minnesota Youth on May 25, 2025.
Shout Out to Allied Partners
Shout Out to Allied Partners
Bridgemakers
High School for Recording Arts
Wend Collective
Center for Policy Design
The Carlson Family Foundation
The Graves Family Foundation
The Minneapolis Foundation
Tad Piper
Propel Nonprofits
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