1. Achieving equity through Expanded learning opportunities
October 21, 2016

2. presentation overview
Agenda
Welcome
Introduction to Quality Expanded Learning Opportunities
Quality Standards
Academic Year and Summer Implementation
Small Group Activity
Final Questions
October 21, 2016

3. welcome
November 20, 2015

4. Community Builder
Question #1 Think about an experience you had in your youth. What was special about it? What made you want to attend/be a part of it?

5. Community Builder
Question #2 Think about an adult that supported you in your youth. What were some of their traits and characteristics? How did they support you?

6. Introduction to expanded learning Opportunities
November 20, 2015

7. What are Expanded Learning Opportunities?
Enhance what students learn during the school day
Offer academic support and increase deeper learning and academic mindsets in youth
Develop social-emotional skills and provide opportunities for leadership
Engage community and families in young peoples’ learning and development
November 20, 2015

8. What are Expanded Learning Opportunities?
Are offered before school, after school, during summer, during breaks, and as part of extended-day or extended-year programs
Help address the opportunity gap
Provide innovative, hands-on learning using best practices
Facilitated by youth development professionals
November 20, 2015

9. Quality: What it is and Why it is important
How ensure ELOs meet the needs of youth?
November 20, 2015

10. Researchers Agree on What It Takes to Support Development
The National Research Council & Institute for Medicine list the following key features of positive youth development settings:
Physical and psychological safety
Appropriate structure
Supportive relationships
Opportunities to belong
Positive social norms
Support for efficacy and mattering
Opportunities for skill-building
Integration of family, school and community efforts
- Community Programs to Promote Youth Development, 2002

11. Quality Construct: The Pyramid of Program Quality

12. Higher scores at higher domains are associated with higher levels of youth engagement
Youth self-reports of:
Belonging
Interest
Challenge
Learning

13. Lower scores are associated with youth disinterest

14. High quality instruction provides youth with opportunities to practice emerging social and emotional skills…
Efficacy Communication Empathy Problem Solving
…that supports success in adolescence and early adulthood

15. Why Care about Program Quality?
Program quality matters
High quality out-of-school programs produce positive social, emotional, academic gains
Many programs do not implement quality practices
Program quality is measurable
Research and practice agreement about the features of a quality learning environment
Program quality is malleable
When program focus on strengthening instructional practices aligned with quality, they can influence program outcomes

16. What are quality standards?
Researched-based and incorporates best practice
A clear, common description of what makes a high quality expanded learning opportunities program
Addresses instruction, environment, and administrative practices
Aligned to a set of Recommended Assessments that provide benchmarks for results and continuous improvement
November 20, 2015

17. IMPROVE: Methods Workshops This improvement process is supported with professional development workshops

18. Creating opportunities in your SCHOOl
Novenber 20, 2015

19. Questions?

20. reflection

21. Questions
Jody Rosentswieg Consultant, School’s Out Washington Bill Wells Statewide Training Manager, School’s Out Washington

22. Thank You.