Our friends at Learning in Afterschool and Summer recently interviewed thought-leaders regarding how they viewed the opportunities and the challenges to aft...

We've been known to borrow tips, tricks and tools from all kinds of sources. We rely on a multitude of frameworks from the field of youth development to supp...

Commissioned by: Los Angeles County Office of Education: Expanded Learning Technical Assistance Unit Written by: Jimena Quiroga Hopkins. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Th...

As fall is approaching and the new school year is underway, most afterschool programs have begun the cycle of hiring and orientating new staff. As you dust o...

It's that time of the year; students are returning back to school, you may be interviewing and hiring new staff for your afterschool programs, all which make...

For those of you running summer programming, you know that planning doesn't begin in June, it actually begins the September after your summer program. It rea...

photo credit to the post Christopher Vance created this post for Afterschool Alliance and we're sharing his ideas with you. He says: "Many programs struggle ...

While this article from the New York Times, by David Brooks, focuses on the traditional student-teacher relationships though a personal experience he had wit...

Looking for research on the out-of-school time field? This peer-reviewed journal is just the answer. We often use the articles as part of our professional de...

We co-hosted with Amalgam Comics and Coffeehouse a screening of Marvel Comics' Black Panther, followed by a curriculum writing 'jam', where educators generat...

September often signals new beginnings (back to school and a new grade, the Jewish holiday Rosh Hashana celebrating the New Year), so why not adopt some prac...

PBS and KQED Partner to Provide Educators With Free Certification in Media Literacy. At SXSWedu, PBS and KQED, the public media station serving the San Franc...

​​​​​​​​​​​Research shows that students with high attendance in quality summer learning programs gain an advantage in math and reading. But getting kids to s...

Sharing a resource created by Aaron Garth, founder of The Ultimate Youth Worker, in Australia. How do you take care of yourself? You can order your own by go...

Introduced in the late 1980s by advocacy groups in the United States that work with people with disabilities, the basic idea of people first language is to p...

This is an informative, brief article about professional development for youth workers and why it's necessary. It's a helpful foundational text for anyone cu...

This op-ed from YouthToday, the leading journal in the field of youth development outlines why professional development experiences need to move beyond one a...

“Youth workers play a critical role in today’s society. For working parents, youth workers who staff after-school and community-based programs provide a brid...

The School District of Philadelphia, Philadelphia Youth Network (PYN), Philadelphia Higher Education Network for Neighborhood Development (PHENND) and ABT So...