Education Resources

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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/

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

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

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?