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EXTERNAL RESOURCE LIBRARY
Here you’ll find free resources from government agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and others in the field, curated by our team with 21st CCLC professionals in mind. The external resource library includes videos, web pages, publications, and more to help you learn about and implement evidence-based strategies and best practices. All were screened for their relevance to out-of-school time, and many are specific to 21st CCLC programs.
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This section of the MyMoney website offers resources for building financial literacy among students and their family members.
- Source: Federal Financial Literacy and Education Commission
- Resource Type: Implementation Strategies
This web page provides suggestions and examples to help you publicize your out-of-school time program to increase visibility, encourage attendance and engagement, celebrate successes, and "tell your story" to stakeholders.
- Source: Afterschool Alliance
- Resource Type: Innovation and Best Practices, Leadership and Management Practices
This playbook provides information and tools to support out-of-school time providers and support networks interested in expanding or beginning to offer high-impact tutoring programs.
- Source: National Student Support Accelerator (a program of the Stanford Accelerator for Learning and EdSolutions at Stanford University)
- Resource Type: Best Practices, Evidence-Based Practices, Implementation Strategies
- Year: 2023
This web page provides access to the Healthier Generation Assessment for Out-of-School Time (OST) and other tools to help OST programs plan and implement best practices to create a healthier OST environment for students.
- Source: Healthier Generation
- Resource Type: Evidence-Based Practices, Implementation Strategies, Innovation and Best Practices, Research
- Year: 2023
This toolkit is intended to help out-of-school time programs, nonprofits, schools, and school districts consider where and how to bring corporate volunteers in to serve as tutors, mentors, student success coaches, student support coordinators, and/or postsecondary transition coaches.
- Source: National Partnership for Student Success
- Resource Type: Implementation Strategies, Innovation and Best Practices, Leadership and Management Practices
- Year: 2023
This guide is most pertinent to school administrators but may be useful for out-of-school time leaders who want to partner with the school to help families apply for Medicaid or to offer health screenings.
- Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Resource Type: Implementation Strategies, Leadership and Management Practices
- Year: 2023
This fact sheet describes and defines comprehensive afterschool programs and their underlying principles. It includes an infographic and links to the evidence base for expanded learning programs.
- Source: Afterschool Alliance
- Resource Type: Implementation Strategies, Innovation and Best Practices, Research
- Year: 2021
This paper provides information about the impact of student absenteeism, explains how afterschool programs can positively impact this crisis, and offers resources for afterschool and organizational leaders.
- Source: Temescal Associates, How Kids Learn Foundation
- Resource Type: Best Practices, Implementation Strategies
- Year: 2023
This web page includes links to research on youth-serving programs. Topics specific to out-of-school time (OST) programs include integrated student supports and conceptual frameworks for understanding how OST programs benefit children's well-being.
- Source: Child Trends
- Resource Type: Evidence-Based Practices, Implementation Strategies, Innovation and Best Practices, Leadership and Management Practices, Research
- Year: 2023
This brief article describes four elements of readiness for program leaders to consider before implementing a new practice and explains that if an evidence-based practice isn't working in your out-of-school time program, lack of readiness may be the reason. Links to relevant tools and resources are included.
- Source: Wallace Foundation
- Resource Type: Evidence-Based Practices, Implementation Strategies, Innovation and Best Practices, Leadership and Management Practices, Research
- Year: 2023
This web page provides a collection of research, articles, videos, and resources to connect career and technical education (CTE) to out-of-school time programs.
- Source: Youth Today
- Resource Type: Best Practices, Leadership and Management Practices, Research
This research brief suggests that student-centered, strengths-based, research-based pedogogical practices are needed to support secondary students' learnng recovery in math. Although this brief is directed at school-day math teachers, it may be useful to out-of-school time programs in planning math learning recovery initiatives.
- Source: University of Connecticut, Center for Education Policy Analysis, Research, and Evaluation
- Resource Type: Evidence-Based Practices, Research
- Year: 2022
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This section of the MyMoney website offers resources for building financial literacy among students and their family members.
- Source: Federal Financial Literacy and Education Commission
- Resource Type: Implementation Strategies
This web page provides suggestions and examples to help you publicize your out-of-school time program to increase visibility, encourage attendance and engagement, celebrate successes, and "tell your story" to stakeholders.
- Source: Afterschool Alliance
- Resource Type: Innovation and Best Practices, Leadership and Management Practices
This playbook provides information and tools to support out-of-school time providers and support networks interested in expanding or beginning to offer high-impact tutoring programs.
- Source: National Student Support Accelerator (a program of the Stanford Accelerator for Learning and EdSolutions at Stanford University)
- Resource Type: Best Practices, Evidence-Based Practices, Implementation Strategies
- Year: 2023
This web page provides access to the Healthier Generation Assessment for Out-of-School Time (OST) and other tools to help OST programs plan and implement best practices to create a healthier OST environment for students.
- Source: Healthier Generation
- Resource Type: Evidence-Based Practices, Implementation Strategies, Innovation and Best Practices, Research
- Year: 2023
This toolkit is intended to help out-of-school time programs, nonprofits, schools, and school districts consider where and how to bring corporate volunteers in to serve as tutors, mentors, student success coaches, student support coordinators, and/or postsecondary transition coaches.
- Source: National Partnership for Student Success
- Resource Type: Implementation Strategies, Innovation and Best Practices, Leadership and Management Practices
- Year: 2023
This guide is most pertinent to school administrators but may be useful for out-of-school time leaders who want to partner with the school to help families apply for Medicaid or to offer health screenings.
- Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Resource Type: Implementation Strategies, Leadership and Management Practices
- Year: 2023
This fact sheet describes and defines comprehensive afterschool programs and their underlying principles. It includes an infographic and links to the evidence base for expanded learning programs.
- Source: Afterschool Alliance
- Resource Type: Implementation Strategies, Innovation and Best Practices, Research
- Year: 2021
This paper provides information about the impact of student absenteeism, explains how afterschool programs can positively impact this crisis, and offers resources for afterschool and organizational leaders.
- Source: Temescal Associates, How Kids Learn Foundation
- Resource Type: Best Practices, Implementation Strategies
- Year: 2023
This web page includes links to research on youth-serving programs. Topics specific to out-of-school time (OST) programs include integrated student supports and conceptual frameworks for understanding how OST programs benefit children's well-being.
- Source: Child Trends
- Resource Type: Evidence-Based Practices, Implementation Strategies, Innovation and Best Practices, Leadership and Management Practices, Research
- Year: 2023
This brief article describes four elements of readiness for program leaders to consider before implementing a new practice and explains that if an evidence-based practice isn't working in your out-of-school time program, lack of readiness may be the reason. Links to relevant tools and resources are included.
- Source: Wallace Foundation
- Resource Type: Evidence-Based Practices, Implementation Strategies, Innovation and Best Practices, Leadership and Management Practices, Research
- Year: 2023
This web page provides a collection of research, articles, videos, and resources to connect career and technical education (CTE) to out-of-school time programs.
- Source: Youth Today
- Resource Type: Best Practices, Leadership and Management Practices, Research
This research brief suggests that student-centered, strengths-based, research-based pedogogical practices are needed to support secondary students' learnng recovery in math. Although this brief is directed at school-day math teachers, it may be useful to out-of-school time programs in planning math learning recovery initiatives.
- Source: University of Connecticut, Center for Education Policy Analysis, Research, and Evaluation
- Resource Type: Evidence-Based Practices, Research
- Year: 2022
