Thoughtful partnering between the school day and expanded learning providers is critical to providing students with enriching learning opportunities and making the most of the time and money we invest.
Resources include: information on building engaging and impactful after school and summer learning programs, connection and coherence with the school day, using data and engaging in continuous improvement.
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Think Outside the Survey Box: Creative Ways to Solicit Youth Feedback
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Loading...Break out of the survey box! There’s more than one way to learn what youth think, care about, want to do, or have learned in your program… so let’s use them! Check out our hands-on guide for youth practitioners to learn about verbal, kinesthetic and visual ways to solicit young people’s input.
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Categories: Continuous Improvement and Using Data, Expanded Learning, Home Featured Resource
Resource Tags: Data, Guide, Youth voice
Rocking Your Community Needs Assessment – Fact Sheet
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Does the term “needs assessment” send chills down your spine? Wondering how you’ll complete the community needs assessment for your next grant proposal? We’ve got you! See our fact sheet about web sites with easy-to-use data about communities. Download this list of the sites we like the most.
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Resource Tags: Assessment, Data, Grant writing
Making Data Work in California
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...This brief is designed to help district decision-makers in California think about how they might collect and use chronic absence data, with an emphasis on leveraging their Student Information Systems (SIS) to support this work.
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Resource Tags: Attendance, Chronic Absence, Data, School Climate, tool
21st Century Community Learning Center
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...This memo describes the 21st CCLC request for applications (RFA) for elementary and middle school students. It is intended to provide updates about the new RFA and as an application planning tool that can be shared by teams, potential partners, and stakeholders.
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Resource Tags: 21st Century Learning, after school, Expanded Learning, Financing, Funding, Summer Learning
Collaborate to Innovate: Advance Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards through K-12 and Expanded Learning Partnerships
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Collaborate to Innovate describes the opportunities for collaboration created by new K-12 standards and the Quality Standards for Expanded Learning Programs in California. The document outlines specific strategies and resources to support K-12 and expanded learning collaboration to advance high-quality STEM learning.
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Resource Tags: Common Core, Expanded Learning, STEM
