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 “The successful outcomes we seek to achieve are based in a deep and articulated faith in the capacity of young people to be resources for the community and energetic agents in their own positive futures.” — Milbrey McLaughlin, Executive Director and founder of the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities, Stanford University School of Education Professor of Education and Public Policy Fed up with negative stereotypes about themselves in the media, students at McClymonds High School in West Oakland produced a magazine, web site and video documentary as part of a Don’t Believe the Hype!” campaign. Over the past school year, campaign activities were developed as part of the Youth Engaged in Leadership and Learning (YELL) project.The campaign served to educate people, including media representatives, about dominant stereotypes and introduce them to alternative, positive images of youth in West Oakland. The YELL Project Model  PHOTO:
The Gardner Center YELL project director, Maria
Fernandez,works with youth researchers on their community survey at
Kennedy Middle School in Redwood City. The YELL project was developed by Stanford University School of Education’s John W. Gardner Center for Youth and continued on page 2 continued from page 1 Their Communities (see sidebar). Although only three years old, it is developing into an effective model for involving youth in their community’s planning and decision-making processes, while at the same time providing them with meaningful relationships with caring adults, opportunities for initiative-taking and ownership and chances for real-world and classroom based creativity and critical thinking. 
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