After the Bell: Improving Student Learning With After School Programs Symposium Resources
Our recent symposium offered a wealth of information on how school boards and principals can successfully partner with community-based after school and summer programs. All of that information is now available on line. We hope that you will use this information to forge stronger partnerships between schools and community-based after school programs so that our children get the very best education we can provide.
The information is divided into categories for easy reference. All documents are in PDF format.
Data and Research
- Afterschool's Role in Education: Today and for the Future
- Research on Afterschool
- Key Findings on Attitudes Toward Education and Learning
- Critical Hours: Afterschool Programs and Educational Success
- The Learning Season: The Untapped Power of Summer to Advance Student Achievement
- Outcomes Linked to High Quality Afterschool Programs: Longitudinal Findings from the Study of Promising Afterschool Programs
- How Out-of-School Time Program Quality is Related to Adolescent Outcomes
Funding/Resources
- Financing an Afterschool Program: A Resource Guide
- Resources Available from the Wallace Foundation
- The Cost of Quality Out-of-School Time Programs
- Possible State Funding Sources
- Possible Federal Funding Sources
- Where You Can Go for Help
- Partnership Resources: Research Based Guides to Building School/Afterschool Program Partnerships
- Make it Stick: A National Campaign for New Day for Learning
Strategies
- After the Bell Rings
- Partnerships for Learning: Promising Practices in Integrating School and Out-of-School Time Program Supports
- Leading a New Day for Learning
- Afterschool: The Bridge Connecting Schools and Communities
- Promising Strategies for Connecting Out-of-School Time Programs to Schools: Learning What Works
- After the Last Bell: The Multiple Roles of Principals in School-Based Afterschool Programs
- School Governance and Leadership
- Meaningful Linkages Between Summer Programs, Schools and Community Partners: Conditions and Strategies for Success
- ELT: Expanding and Enriching Learning Time for All
- The Power of Partnerships
- Afterschool: Providing Multiple Benefits to Middle School Students
- The Quality Imperative: A State Guide to Achieving the Promise of Extended Learning Opportunities
Tools for Collaboration
- Leading After School Learning Communities: What Principals Should Know and Be Able to Do
- The Twenty Minute Meeting
- Responsibility Check List for the Principal and After School Program Director
- Structuring Out-of-School Time to Improve Academic Achievement Check List
- Strengthening Partnerships: Community School Assessment Check List
- Expectations for Program Providers, Sample MOU
- After School Personnel Qualifications and Responsibilities
- Employment Description Samples
- Providence After School Alliance (PASA) Application Form