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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