Facilitating Positive Youth Development

In this mini-course, we’ll explore how enrichment activities can play a vital role in supporting learning recovery, helping students regain lost learning and rebuild academic skills. You’ll learn how to connect enrichment opportunities with students’ interests and academic needs, fostering engagement and meaningful progress in the wake of interrupted learning experiences. By the end of this session, you’ll be able to: Understand the role of enrichment activities in learning recovery. Identify ways to align enrichment activities with students’ interests and academic needs. Explain how to incorporate academic standards into enrichment activities effectively.

In this mini-course, we’ll explore how to create positive, enriching opportunities for students and share various ways to partner with the school day, families, and community organizations to support learning recovery.​ By the end of this session, you’ll be able to:  ​ Define high-quality learning recovery in the out-of-school time (OST) setting. ​ Describe strategies to address learning gaps in major focus areas.​ Identify 21st CCLC NTAC resources to support learning recovery activities.​

This mini-course for out-of-school time leaders (and aspiring leaders) helps you understand and use 10 pillars of servant leadership to develop yourself, your staff, and your program. The 10 pillars are listening, empathy, healing, self-awareness, persuasion, conceptualization, foresight, stewardship, growth, and community.

This mini-course helps out-of-school time program leaders and frontline staff understand how stress, trauma, sensory needs, and other factors can affect behavior. It demonstrates ways to guide student behavior through reflection, redirection, and restorative practices that build trust and accountability.