Educational Resources

The Character Education Partnership website includes Eleven Principles, resources including a catalogue, lesson plans, bookshelf and links.

www.character.org

The Search Institutes 40 developmental assets are positive experiences and qualities that aid in healthy youth development.
www.search-institute.org/assets

The Secondary School Redesign Project website at the Council for Chief State School Officers includes the Adolescent Literacy Toolkit. The toolkit was developed by the Council and its partners. It contains resources for states and teachers related to developing state-level professional development activities and integrating literacy strategies and best practices in core content areas. To access this resource, click here.

Resources for after school programs including exemplary practices, sample budgets, early release policies, sample contracts, sample memorandum of understanding (mou), as well as high school resources.

www.bayareapartnership.org/asi/asi-tools.htm

What makes the San Juan Unified School District’s Bridges After-School Program model so distinct? Could it be that the San Juan Unified School District has combined all of the extended learning opportunities for district students into one Extended Learning Department to maximize resources offered to students without duplication?

Browse and download free curriculum and curriculum evaluation materials. Participate in a free curriculum lending library.

www.californiaafterschool.org

Campaign Curriculum Resources
Research-based activities linked to state standards to educate about nutrition and physical activity. Parent/Family resources also available.

www.dhs.ca.gov/ps/cdic/cpns/powerplay/pp_resources.htm#ParentBrochure

Connect for Kids (CFK) now offers a comprehensive collection of resources to help Americans understand and take action on healthy nutrition and obesity. Included in this toolkit are informational resources and resources for children, teens, parents and educators. To learn more, click here.

Utilize California After-School Resource Center curriculum review forms to assess after-school appropriateness, ELA instruction, Mathematics, Health, and Professional resources.

www.californiaafterschool.org/c/@sn3sIVh7ULNr6/Pages/casrc_resource.html

This free resource for after-school program was developed by the Dairy Council of California to teach Kindergarten through 6th grade students to recognize healthy choices around diet and physical activity. The curriculum contains materials including resources in English and Spanish. To view and download this free curriculum, go to www.dairycouncilofca.org/ED_ProgramsDMI.aspx

The National Institute on Out of School Time in association with the After-School Corporation designed this curriculum to foster positive attitudes and stronger affiliations between students, teachers, and the surrounding school communities.

www.niost.org/publications/Discovering%20Community%20Activity%20Guide%20...

This link to the PBS educational resource page includes an overview of Howard Gardener’s 9 multiple intelligences as well as tips to include a multiple intelligences approach in teaching, and multiple intelligence resources.

www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/education/ed_mi_overview.html

Public Private Ventures recently released a series of reports based on an eight year research and evaluation study of the Communities Organizing Resources to Advance Learning (CORAL) Initiative funded by the James Irvine Foundation. The series contains a number of publications including What Matters, What Works: Advancing Achievement After-School, Supporting Success: Why and How to Improve Quality in After-School Programs, and an After School Toolkit: Tips Techniques and Templates for Improving Program Quality.

The SEDL National Partnership for Quality Afterschool Learning maintaings a training toolkit, curriculum databases, and additional resources for after school programs.

http://www.sedl.org/afterschool/resources/index.html

Promising Practices in After-School Academic Enrichment Section allows user to search for after-school activities by grade level and subject areas as well as view the whole list and submit after-school activities.

http://www.afterschool.org/aea/index.html

Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL) Afterschool Training Toolkit provides research regarding promising practices that work, ways to implement them in your after-school program, sample lessons, and illustrative videos. To view these resources and sample lessons go to www.sedl.org/afterschool/toolkits/technology/

A new checklist from After-school Investments serves as a companion to their report, Promoting Physical Activity and Healthy Nutrition in After-school Settings: Strategies for Program Leaders and Policy Makers, which provided frameworks of financing strategies, ideas for after-school programming and additional resources. The new toolkit allows stakeholders to gauge how best to improve childhood nutrition and physical activity and summarizes strategies and resources that can guide discussions and planning around policy and program options.

Curriculum centered on character education, volunteer service, and career development for 8 to18 year-old students is available for free download.
Developed by the Tiger Woods Learning Center and Target

www.tigerwoodsfoundation.org/startsomething/

The U.S. Department of health recently released the Stop Bullying Now! Activities Guide, a handbook of ideas for putting the Stop Bullying Now! Campaign to work in your school or community. Also available are a DVD video toolkit featuring webisodes, public service announcements, and video workshops. To view or download this guide and connect to web-based resources for the prevention of bullying, click here.

Suzanne Stiegelbauer from Southwest Educational Development 
Laboratory (SEDL) discussed their National Partnership for Quality, and the myriad of after school curriculum resources in Math, Science, Literacy, Art, Homework, and Technology as well as afterschool training toolkits for staff that can be obtained on the SEDL website.

To view SEDL online toolkits which will be discussed in this telephone workshop, visit www.sedl.org/afterschool/toolkits