Beat the Streets Blog

Welcome to the Beat the Streets blog, a labour of love crafted by BTS staff, consultants, guest writers, and program participants. Based in Toronto, we focus on youth development programs, charity initiatives, and empowering active and healthy youth through sports and skill-building programs. Discover insightful articles on fitness, training, health, wellness, employment empowerment, program updates and the impactful stories that shape our journey.

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Experiential Learning: Empowering Lives through Hands-On Education

This blog post delves into the essence of experiential learning, exploring its benefits and why organizations like Beat the Streets embrace it to teach social-emotional skills to low-income youth.

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Social-Emotional Learning for Youth: Promoting Well-being and Academic Success

This blog post explores the concept of SEL, its significance in education and health policies, and the benefits it offers to low-income youth.

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Level Up program is underway for 40 students at Fletcher's Meadow!

We're off to a great start with our latest Level Up programs. Serving more than 50 students, we can't wait to empower confident, resilient and active youth!

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What about SEL do participants learn at BTST?

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What are the short-term and long-term benefits of Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)?

Social-emotional learning (SEL) gets a lot of focus in our programs—but just exactly what are the benefits of it and how long do these benefits stick around for? Fortunately, SEL is evidence-based and has been proven to have long-term effects decades down the road in a child’s development, making SEL programs a valuable investment for the future and development of our youth and children.

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Level Up program is underway!

See what students are saying about our Level Up Program!

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New BTS program starts this week!

BTS begins it’s first Level Up class this week with Fletchers Meadow Secondary School.

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Top Wrestling mEMeS

They say laughter is the best medicine. Get well with some of the freshest wrestling memes the internet has to offer.

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Time Management

Managing time can be hard if you don’t know how to do it. This post will talk about the importance of time management, the benefits of it, and some tips.

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What is Jiu-Jitsu?

Learn more about Jiu-Jitsu, one of our featured activities in our upcoming You Grow Girl program.

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Canada Summer Jobs // Goodbye Party

Time to say goodbye to our Summer Jobs 2020 team…with a BBQ!

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What is it Like Working Remotely at Beat the Streets?

The Beat the Streets summer jobs students have been working remotely for quite some time. Read all about their experiences and opinions on how it has been.