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Researcher and Practitioner Dialogue with Carol McElvain, J.D. and Michael Funk
The third issue of the Journal of Expanded Learning Opportunities (JELO) has arrived! This spring issue launched at the 2016 BOOST conference and features a conversation about quality programming in afterschool, an article on the role that social emotional learning can play to close the achievement and learning gaps, and an article focusing on the links between professional development and quality STEM learning experiences. You can visit last week’s installment about social emotional learn...Read More
Why Integrate Learning Standards?
As an afterschool and expanded learning professional, you have a lot going on in your day-to-day life. As you try to juggle the million little things that come up throughout your day, you’re also trying to pay attention to best practices in the field. You’ve probably heard about the importance of being “intentional” and “planful” in your program design, but what exactly does that mean? And why is it important? There has been a shift in the focus of our field o...Read More
From My Sofa: Quality Programming
If you’re like me, you are NOT reading this at breakfast but from your sofa at night with an IPA or cup of chamomile tea in hand … Which means you might not make it to the end. So, I’m starting with a plug for input to the Standards in Action being developed by CAN’s Work Group on Quality Standards. Just go to the CAN website. You don’t even have to review all of them, just click on the two or three that interest you most and give us your thoughts. You’ll be done in a few sips. Or you can d...Read More