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TOPIC: Expanded Learning Opportunities -- After-School & Summer Programs, Sports (and their evaluation)

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Center Developed Documents, Resources and Tools

Introductory Packets
• Transitions: Turning Risks into Opportunities for Student Support

Information Resource
• About Programs for After School Hours and Non-school Days
• About Art Therapy and Schools
• Addressing Barriers to Successful Middle School Transition
• Dropouts and the 9th Grade Bulge
• Eating Disorders Among Student Athletes
• Embedding the Arts into the School’s Agenda: Music as an Example
• Enhancing Summer Learning
• Potential Beneficial Effects of Summer Programs for Children from Low Income Families
• Service-learning and Community Service Clubs in Schools
• Service Learning in Schools
• Service learning Can Enhance Social Emotional Development
• Student Athletes and Mental Health Problems
• Student Perceptions of School Physical Education Programs

Technical Assistance Sampler
• A Sampling of Outcome Findings from Interventions Relevant to Addressing Barriers to Learning

Technical Aid Packets
• After-School Programs and Addressing Barriers to Learning

Training Tutorials
• Support for Transition to Address Barriers to Learning

Tools for Practice
• Support for Transition: A Self-Study Survey

Alternative Schooling  

• Alternative schooling
• Personalized Learning as Transformative Learning: Alternative Education Lessons
• See Alternative Schools and Alternative Education Quick Find

Expanded Learning Opportunities  
• Arts and achievement in at risk youth
• Bringing STEM to Scale through Expanded Learning Systems
• Career and technical education
• The moment of the whole child is here; let’s not waste it
• Out-of-School Time as a Tool for Social Justice
• Summer Learning and Beyond
• Summer Learning Enrichment Collaborative
• Summer Learning Resources
• Summer Learning Toolkit
• Expanding Educational Opportunity for Young Men of Color
• Youth perspectives on designing equitable out of school time programs
• Expanding Summer Employment Opportunities for Low Income Youth
• The Growing Convergence of Community Schools and Expanded Learning Opportunities
• Supporting Quality in Summer Learning: How Districts Plan, Develop, and Implement Programs

Research on year round and summer learning
• A Case Study of a School-Based Expanded Learning Summer Program
• Building and Using Evidence in Summer, Afterschool and Other Out-of-school Time Settings
• Counteracting Summer Slide: Social Capital Resources Within Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Families
• Community-Based Summer Learning Programs for School-Age Children: Research-to-Policy Resources
• The dynamic effects of a summer learning program
• NEA: Research Spotlight on Year Round Education
• Preventing Summer learning loss: results of a summer literacy program for students from low SES homes (2018). Reading & Writing Quarterly, 34, 99-116.
• Shaping summertime experiences: Opportunities to promote healthy development and wellbeing for children and youth
• Shifting to student-centered learning: Influences of teaching a summer service learning program
• Special Report on Summer: Missed Opportunities, Unmet Demand
Students Need Summer Learning That Doesn’t Feel Like School
• Summer learning planning guide
• Summer learning toolkit
• Summer Matters

After School Programs
• 4-H Afterschool in a Box
• A Closer Look at a Summer Reading Program
• After the Bell
• Afterschool Partnerships
• Afterschool programs: Keeping kids-and communities-safe
• Afterschool Programs That Support Homeless Youth
• America After 3PM Special Report on Summer: Missed Opportunities, Unmet Demand
• Best Practices for Expanded Learning Time
• Bringing Education to Afterschool Programs
• The Changing Face of After School Programs: Advocating Talent Development for Urban Middle and High School Students
• Creating Opportunities for Young People: Statewide After-School Networks
• Delayed Effects of a Low Cost, Large Scale Summer Reading Intervention...
• A Dynamic Framework for Understanding the Complex Work of Quality Out-of-School Time Programs
• Enhancing School Reform Through Expanded Learning
• ERIC Digest: Academic Effects of After-School Programs
• ERIC Digest: Focus on After-School Time for Violence Prevention
• Examples of Library Summer Learning Programs and Supporting Resources
• Improving the Lives of Adolescents and Young Adults: Out-of-School Time Programs That Have Significant Positive Impacts
• K-12 Education: Education Needs to Improve Oversight of Its 21st Century Program
• Literature Review of Afterschool Mentoring Programs for Children At Risk
• National Partnership for Quality Afterschool Learning
• Positive Youth Development: A Resiliency-Based Afterschool Program Case Study
• The Promise of Expanded Learning Opportunities: Overview
• The Quality of School-Age Child Care in After-School Settings
• Shared Features of High-Performing After-School Programs

Issues
• Afterschool Research: Special Populations
• Intersection of After School and Competency Based Learning
• Kids Loose Learning Skills Over Summer Months
• Peer Activity in the Evenings and Participation in Aggressive and Problem Behaviors
• Self-Esteem and Feelings of Community Connectedness of At-Risk Adolescents Attending Community-Based Afterschool Programs
• Summer Can Set Kids on the Right or Wrong Course
• Summer Learning Programs: Investigating Strengths and Challenges
• The Contributions of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation to the Development of Reading Competence Over Summer Vacation
• Unsupervised Time: Family and child Factors Associated with Self-Care (2003) S. Vandivere, et al, Urban Institute

Tools, Workshops, and Guides
• Afterschool Training Toolkit
• After-School Programs that Promote Child and Adolescent Development: Summary of a Workshop
• Building Partnerships in Support of Where, When, & How Learning Happens
• An Educating Neighborhood
• Investing in Successful Summer Programs
• Making Summer Count: How Summer Programs Can Boost Children's Learning

Evaluation Resources
• Evaluating After-School Care
• Strategies for success: A plan to align out-of-school time initiatives with high school reform
• A Summary of Findings from Case Studies in Four States