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Making Quality a Full-Time Job |
How one of the country's largest YMCAs is expanding efforts to improve services to kids. |
7/31/2012 |
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Moving the Needle on "Moving the Needle" |
Next stage technical guidance for performance-based accountability systems in the expanded learning field with a focus on performance levels for the quality of instructional services. |
12/1/2013 |
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National Study Shows Positive Impact of Circus Programming on Youth At Risk |
A study commissioned by AYCO shows exemplary SEL skill-building in programs... |
12/1/2017 |
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Preparing Children to Thrive: Standards for Social and Emotional Learning Practices in School-Age Settings |
This guide is designed to help organizational and program leaders see clearly what social and emotional learning (SEL) among children (ages 5-13) would look like and feel like in real program settings, and to draw attention to promising adult practices for building SEL skills among children, along with curriculum features at an organizational level that support implementation of SEL programs. |
3/1/2019 |
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Preparing Youth to Thrive: Methodology and Findings from the Social Emotional Learning Challenge |
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12/6/2016 |
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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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Quality-Outcomes Study for Seattle Public Schools Summer Programs, 2016 Program Cycle |
In the summer of 2016, Seattle Public Schools (SPS), the Raikes Foundation, School’s Out Washington (SOWA), and the David P. Weikart Center for Youth Program Quality (Weikart Center) collaborated on a quality-outcomes study. |
1/11/2018 |
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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 |
