Run high impact, effective trainings with Afterschool Style in Practice: 25 Skill-Building Meetings for Staff.

Includes detailed training outlines, activities, handouts, and templates.

What Works? Effective Staff Development

Professional development is about change. New ideas, different approaches, new strategies, new techniques. Good staff development translates into best practices put into action every day.

The Center facilitates trainings with leaders and staff of widely varied programs across the country. Following our trainings, we track results: we want to see if the practices we teach are implemented.

Through this evaluation process, we’ve identified features of professional development that works.

• Content is clearly relevant to participants’ needs
• Principles of adult education shape the design and delivery
• Participants see concepts and techniques in practice—and have time to process and practice themselves
• Training ties directly to application in the context of participants’ own programs
• Participants build on their experience and learn from one another

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