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Afterschool Alliance, 2023
Today, students' academic achievement is slowly seeing a return to pre-pandemic trends. Researchers do not estimate a full recovery in the near future, and studies show students continue to struggle with feelings of stress, isolation, anxiety, and depression. As the nation seeks solutions to help young people amidst these struggles, voters and…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Summer Programs, Parent Attitudes, Community Attitudes
Stephanie Abraham – Teachers College Record, 2025
Background: Situated in urban Philadelphia, Autores Fuertes was part of a network of nonprofit community writing centers that provided a free afterschool writing academy for children ages 7 to 17. With a full-time lead educator and assistant educator, alongside several volunteer community educators, this center promoted itself as a…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Laboratories, Writing (Composition), Community Programs
Michael Hidalgo – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Out-of-school time (OST) initiatives, defined as programs that operate in and out of school settings, serve young people, their families, and the communities around them. These initiatives are often created to close opportunity gaps that can exist for at-risk students and to meet the needs of previously assessed concerns for communities. For the…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Community Needs, School Community Programs, After School Programs
Rebecca S. Levine – Afterschool Matters, 2024
As communities grapple with the harmful, inequitable effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, which have been particularly hard on low-income and marginalized youth, renewed attention has been directed toward how out-of-school time (OST) programs can help youth reconnect and re-engage. In this article, the results of a systematic literature review on the…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, Adolescents, Youth Programs, School Community Programs
Jon's Heroes in Training: A Cross-Sector Collaboration Serving University and Community Stakeholders
Mary L. Henninger; Brittany LeFevre; Harriett Steinbach; Geralyn Miskulin; Joe Miskulin – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2024
Jon's Heroes in Training (JHT) represents a strong cross-sector collaboration that was created and has evolved over the past five years. JHT is an after-school program where children (ages 3-22) with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis come to the local university to engage in high-quality physical education lessons designed and…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Adapted Physical Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers
Zrudlo, Ilya – Journal of Moral Education, 2023
This article takes up three interrelated elements of Iris Murdoch's moral philosophy into an initial conceptual framework for moral education and explores a practical application of this framework to a lesson plan. The three elements are moral vocabulary, moral perception, and the quality of our states of consciousness. The framework constituted…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Moral Development, Educational Philosophy, Teaching Methods
White, Annie M.; Akiva, Thomas; Colvin, Sharon; Li, Junlei – AERA Open, 2022
A growing movement suggests that social and emotional learning (SEL) should be integrated into educational experiences in and outside schools. Afterschool programs can be particularly well suited for SEL, and afterschool educators can play an important role in skill development. We interviewed 23 experienced afterschool educators in…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Expertise, After School Programs, Community Programs
Harris Garad, Brooke – British Educational Research Journal, 2021
In the midst of an international debate about immigration, this qualitative ethnographic study focuses on the stories and teaching practices of immigrant and refugee educators working with immigrant and refugee youth at a community-based after-school programme in the Midwestern region of the USA. Using existing literature to describe the…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Refugees, Community Programs, After School Programs
Tracey Hartmann; Wendy McClanahan; Mark Duffy; Leana Cabral; Carolyn Barnes; Brian Christens – Research for Action, 2024
The Wallace Foundation commissioned Research for Action and McClanahan Associates to study how out-of-school time intermediaries (OSTIs) responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and the role they could play in supporting communities moving forward. Citywide out-of-school time (OST) systems encompass a wide variety of afterschool and summer programs and…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, After School Programs, Summer Programs
Danielle A. Augustine; Emilie P. Smith; Dawn P. Witherspoon – Journal of Youth Development, 2022
After-school programs are potential contexts that may promote positive youth development (PYD) and reduce problem behaviors among African American children. One way after-school programs may be associated with reduced problem behaviors is by fostering an affirming sense of identity. Prior research on racial-ethnic identity among African American…
Descriptors: Racial Identification, Ethnicity, Behavior Problems, After School Programs
Jake Simms; Alyssa M. Trad; Jules Woolf; Kevin Andrew Richards – Quest, 2024
This study sought to understand the influence of participation in a physical activity-based, social and emotional learning-focused after-school. Undergraduate students (N = 25) from a variety of ethnic backgrounds participated in semi-structured interviews and regular journaling. Data were analyzed inductively and deductively through the lens of…
Descriptors: Volunteers, After School Programs, Socialization, Physical Activities
Jennifer Suh; Gretchen Maxwell; Kate Roscioli; Holly Tate; Padmanabhan Seshaiyer; Risto Marttinen – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2023
A powerful way to build students' mathematical power and agency is through Teaching Mathematics for Social Justice (TMfSJ), where students read and write the world with mathematics (Gutstein, 2005). Reading the world with mathematics uses mathematics to understand relations of power, resource inequities, and disparate opportunities between…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Models, Social Justice, Athletics
Tan, Edna; Faircloth, Beverly – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2023
This study investigates how recently resettled refugee youth took up STEM-rich making experiences at an after-school community club in relation to negotiating their resettlement process. Using critical participatory ethnography grounded in sustained engagement with and in community, authors 1 and 2 worked with refugee youth through sustained…
Descriptors: Refugees, Epistemology, STEM Education, After School Programs
Bouffard, Suzanne – Learning Professional, 2022
Most educators believe that social and emotional learning (SEL) skills are a fundamental part of good teaching and learning. Long before the pandemic, surveys showed that teachers believed these skills were essential for students to learn at school, and research confirmed that they are linked with measures of academic success. Educators need…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Emotional Development, Social Development, Skill Development
Pinn, Justin Michael Shawn – ProQuest LLC, 2022
As low-income youth of color seek to persevere and succeed against the odds, afterschool programs have become a growing resource and support for many of these low-income youth and their families. However, the body of research concerning the impact of afterschool programs is largely inconclusive and there is still a growing urgency to determine the…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Program Evaluation, Minority Group Students, Low Income Students