Professional Development and Technical Assistance

The Center conducts professional development sessions across the country, and widely disseminates professional development tools and publications, reaching thousands of afterschool staff, leaders, networks, and administrators each year.

As we engage with practitioners, leaders, and organizations, we seize the opportunity to learn. Every session is a learning experience that keeps us grounded and connected to today's challenges and opportunities.

Our professional development sessions are tailored to the world of afterschool and designed for afterschool staff at all levels.  Participants come from urban, rural, and small-town settings. Most share similar program goals and demographics, such as:

• Providing academic enrichment and homework time
• Enrolling between 60 and 80 youth
• 75% of the children qualifying for free and reduced-priced lunch
• 30% of the children being English language learners

   

• System-Building: Afterschool Academies
• Training Trainers: Technical Assistance

Training Trainers: Technical Assistance

The Center works with multi-site programs and networks in a planned, focused, and sequential way over time to build the capacity of leaders to meet their goals. We work intensively with organizations to identify resources and challenges, clarify goals, and address specific needs for quality improvement.

Our focus is building the capacity of organizations to:

• Provide and sustain effective staff development
• Build leadership
• Assess the quality of the programs
• Design and develop effective programming
• Enhance academic supports, afterschool style, including:
  • Essential approaches of afterschool education
  • Techniques, methods, and materials
  • High quality homework time
  • Supporting English language learning and learners
• Plan practical program improvements
• Improve family engagement

The Center provides technical assistance through on-site visits, consultations, online trainings, and coaching.

Please visit our Trainings to learn more about the Center's professional development and technical assistance.

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