Free March 17th Workshop - Measuring and Improving After School Quality

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Making a Difference in After School - Measuring and Improving After School Quality
After-school programs can have a positive impact on academic, social and emotional outcomes. Not all programs do, however, which makes quality a top priority for practice and policy. Bob Granger from the William T. Grant Foundation and Nicole Yohalem from the Forum for Youth Investment will describe what is known about the ability of after-school programs to make a difference on academic and other outcomes, how leading researchers are defining and measuring program quality, and how practitioners and policy makers at the state and local levels are building systems aimed at improving quality.

Submit advance questions to our speakers
You have the ability to submit questions in advance to the speakers. These questions may be presented at the video-taped workshop. Thus, you may have an option to get your questions answered even if you cannot attend the event! In order to submit an advance question to our speakers go to http://www.afterschoolnetwork.org/forum/140

This Workshop Will Feature:

Robert C. Granger and Nicole Yohalem

About the Speakers

Robert C. Granger, Ed.D.
Robert C. Granger, Ed.D. has been President of the William T. Grant Foundation since 2003. The Foundation supports research and related activities intended to improve the lives of young people. For the past four years, the Foundation has devoted approximately 15% of its research grantmaking and all of its communication/advocacy support to the task of improving the quality of after-school programming.

Before joining the Foundation in 2000 as Senior Vice President of Programs, Dr. Granger served as Senior Vice President of the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation (MDRC) and Executive Vice President at Bank Street College of Education. From 2004-2008, Dr. Granger chaired the National Board for Education Sciences. This presidentially appointed advisory panel of the Institute of Education Sciences in the U.S. Department of Education oversees federal activities regarding educational research.

Robert C. Granger recently authored After-School Programs and Academics: Implications for Policy, Practice, and Research

Nicole Yohalem, M.Ed.
Nicole Yohalem has worked at the Forum for Youth Investment since 2000. She has authored a range of publications related to out-of-school time and youth development, represents the Forum as a spokesperson at national conferences and events and serves as an advisor to several foundations, organizations and initiatives. Prior to her work at the Forum, Nicole served as a youth development specialist at Michigan State University where she developed, implemented and evaluated community-based youth programs and provided training and technical assistance to programs statewide within the Cooperative Extension Service. From 1990 to 1995 Nicole worked in the adolescent division of the High/Scope Educational Research Foundation where she directed the Foundation’s residential programs for teens while developing curricular and training materials for use in a wide range of youth programs. Nicole earned a Master of Education degree in the multidisciplinary Risk and Prevention program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Nicole Yohalem co-authored the report Measuring Youth Program Quality: A Guide to Assessment Tools. The second edition was recently released and is available at http://www.forumfyi.org/node/297

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