Quality-Building Publications

“How To” Guides for Improvement

The Center for Afterschool Education offers resources to help you continually build quality.

Academic Content After-School Style: A Notebook and Guide (ACAS)
ACAS features effective tools and information to create learning-rich programs and develop staff as skilled afterschool educators. It shows how to link with school content, provide help, and assess learning-afterschool style. Numerous self-reflection tools put the "plan, revise and reflect" approach into action.
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Afterschool Style in Practice: 25 Skill-Building Meetings for Staff
Plan a year's worth of staff development to help advance quality-improvement efforts. Each meeting includes activities for learning and reflecting on effective techniques and concrete ways to put new ideas into practice.
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Quality Assurance System® (QAS®)
What does quality look like in afterschool programming? How can you increase quality on an ongoing basis? The dynamic, comprehensive online QAS helps you and your staff answer these questions.

You'll find tools to:

• See what high quality looks like through detailed examples
• Develop targeted improvement plans
• Measure progress via initial and follow-up reviews and reports
• Examine needs and improvements across one site or multiple sites over time

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