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Preparing Youth to Thrive: Promising Practices for Social & Emotional Learning |
This SEL Field guide was the result of the SEL Challenge. The Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Challenge was designed to identify promising practices for building social and emotional skills with vulnerable adolescents. These promising practices are called standards for SEL practice. The Challenge was a partnership between expert practitioners (youth workers, social workers, teachers) delivering exemplary programs in eight unique communities, a team of researchers, and a national funder. |
1/25/2016 |
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Quality In The Context Of Outcome Evaluations |
Video of presentation by Charles Smith at the 4th annual Youth-Nex conference "Let's Talk After-School: After-School Programs for Children and Adolescents. |
11/24/2014 |
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Quality-Outcomes Study for Seattle Public Schools Summer Programs Summer 2015 Program Cycle |
In the summer of 2015 the Seattle Public Schools (SPS), the Raikes Foundation, School’s Out Washington (SOWA), and David P. Weikart Center for Youth Program Quality (Weikart Center), collaborated on a quality-outcomes study. |
12/22/2015 |
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Self-Assessment Using the YPQA |
In this technical assistance brief we describe how program self-assessment using the Youth Program Quality Assessment (Youth PQA), a key component of the YPQI model, can help OST program managers and frontline staff begin a conversation about program quality with shared language. |
9/21/2010 |
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Summer Learning Program Quality Assessment - 2013 Phase I Pilot Report |
Summer Learning Program Quality Assessment 2013 Phase I Pilot Report |
2/28/2014 |
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Summer Learning Program Quality Intervention (SLPQI) Phase Two Feasibility Study |
This report provides findings for an evaluation of the implementation of the SLPQI in 32 summer learning programs in Grand Rapids, Mich., Northern California, and Seattle, Wash. |
3/25/2015 |
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The Michigan Technical Assistance and Coaching Support Services (TACSS) Initiative |
In 2009, MDE partnered with the Weikart Center to provide increased professional development offerings for all grantees and intensive training, coaching, and technical assistance (TA) for a subset of referred grantees. The TACSS initiative was developed as a scalable quality improvement intervention. |
1/1/2010 |
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The Youth Program Quality Intervention |
The Youth Program Quality Intervention, recently found effective in a randomized trial, is the basis for numerous improvement projects around the country. The YPQI follows an Assess-Plan-Improve sequence to help programs focus on and improve the quality of program offerings they provide for youth.In this technical assistance brief we describe the YPQI, focusing on how it can be implemented in a city, county, or state network. |
9/20/2010 |
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The Youth Program Quality Intervention (YPQI) Research Study: Implications for Policy and Practice |
Researchers found that the Youth Program Quality Intervention - a scalable, evidence-based continuous improvement model - increases quality among a wide range of afterschool systems, is sustainable and cost-effective, and might boost staff retention. |
2/29/2012 |
