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Advancing Achievement: Findings from an Independent Evaluation of a Major After-School Initiative
by Amy Arbreton, Jessica Sheldon, Molly Bradshaw and Julie Goldsmith with Linda Jucovy and Sarah Pepper
February 2008,
96 pages
This report presents outcomes from Public/Private Ventures research on CORAL, an eight-year, $58 million after-school initiative of The James Irvine Foundation. Findings described in the report demonstrate the relationship between high-quality literacy programming and academic gains and underscore the potential role that quality programs may play in the ongoing drive to improve academic achievement. The report includes a 12-page executive summary.
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What Matters, What Works: Advancing Achievement After School
February 2008,
24 pages
This brief provides highlights from Advancing Achievement: Findings from an Independent Evaluation of a Major After-School Initiative. The brief underscores the potential of after-school programs in the ongoing drive to advance children's academic achievement. It shines a light on some of the issues that matter most for programs striving to promote academic success—namely, program quality and youth engagement. The brief also suggests what works by linking these program attributes to academic benefits. Like the report on which it is based, the brief draws lessons from the Communities Organizing Resources to Advance Learning (CORAL) initiative of The James Irvine Foundation.
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Supporting Success: Why and How to Improve Quality in After-School Programs
by Jessica Sheldon and Leigh Hopkins
February 2008,
37 pages
This report examines the program improvement strategies, step-by-step, that allowed The James Irvine Foundation's CORAL initiative to achieve the levels of quality needed to boost the academic success of participating students. And it makes specific policy and funding suggestions for improving program performance. Communities Organizing Resources to Advance Learning (CORAL) is an eight-year, $58 million after-school initiative to improve educational achievement in low-performing schools in five California cities.
Views from the Field
Program quality and professional development are on the minds of many who work in and support the after-school field, from program directors to foundations to policy organizations. In 2007, P/PV interviewed six leaders in the field about trends and needs in professional development for after-school time. Excerpts from these interviews are featured in Supporting Success, with the full texts of the interviews available here:
- Erika Argersinger, Policy Director, Afterschool Alliance
- Betsy Brand, Director, American Youth Policy Forum
- Ron Fairchild, Executive Director, Center for Summer Learning, Johns Hopkins University
- Bob Granger, President, William T. Grant Foundation
- Nancy Peter, Director, Out-of-School Time Resource Center at the University of Pennsylvania
- Daniel Princiotta, Senior Policy Analyst, National Governors Association Center for Best Practices
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After-School Toolkit: Tips, Techniques and Templates for Improving Program Quality
by Nora Gutierrez, Molly Bradshaw and Kathryn Furano
February 2008,
54 pages
This toolkit offers program managers a practical, hands-on guide for implementing quality programming in the after-school hours. The kit includes the tools and techniques that increased the quality of literacy programming and helped improve student reading gains in the Communities Organizing Resources to Advance Learning (CORAL) initiative of The James Irvine Foundation. CORAL is an eight-year, $58 million after-school initiative aimed at improving education achievement in low-performing schools in five California cities.
In addition to strategies, process and instructions, this toolkit offers a series of tools program staff can use to build the quality of their after-school program.
NEW: All featured tools are available for download as Microsoft Word documents:
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Gaining Ground: Supporting English Learners Through After-School Literacy Programming
by Julie Goldsmith, Linda Jucovy and Amy Arbreton
February 2008,
9 pages
This brief presents findings that demonstrate a relationship between key approaches in CORAL, an eight-year, $58 million after-school initiative of The James Irvine Foundation, and the academic progress of English learners. In addition to presenting findings, the brief suggests important considerations for any policymaker and funder interested in the success of English learners as a growing student population.
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Midcourse Corrections to a Major Initiative: A Report on The James Irvine Foundations CORAL Initiative
by Gary Walker
May 2007,
24 pages
This report draws lessons from the reorientation of the Communities Organizing Resources to Advance Learning (CORAL) initiative. CORAL is a $58 million initiative aimed at improving education achievement in low-performing schools in five California cities. The report outlines the inherent challenges in making midcourse corrections to major initiatives. It also reveals lessons that foundations and nonprofits can learn from the CORAL experience, including the importance of midcourse reviews for multiyear initiatives and the value of setting clear and measurable interim outcomes.
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Launching Literacy in After-School Programs: Early Lessons from the CORAL Initiative
by Amy J. A. Arbreton, Julie Goldsmith and Jessica Sheldon
December 2005,
58 pages
The James Irvine Foundation launched the Communities Organizing Resources to Advance Learning (CORAL) initiative in 1999 with the goal of improving the academic achievement of children in the lowest-performing schools in five California cities. In 2004, CORAL adopted a more targeted approach toward reaching this goal by integrating a regular schedule of literacy instruction into its after-school programs. This interim report, based on research conducted between Fall 2004 and Summer 2005, documents CORAL's progress toward implementing high-quality and consistent literacy programming. The report presents early results in terms of youth's positive reading gains and describes the program components that appear to have contributed to these gains. It also identifies challenges CORAL sites faced and successful strategies for addressing those challenges.
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