1st Edition
Leadership of Afterschool and Supplemental Education Creating Seamless Pathways to Post-Secondary Life
This book explores the design and implementation of effective supplementary education programs that best prepare students for post-secondary life. Drawing from research and best practice in the fields of supplementary and afterschool education, youth development, and school–college–community partnerships, this book outlines a balanced approach to viewing supplementary education and community-based programs, which when designed alongside classroom learning, can meet the needs of underserved youth. This book challenges aspiring educational leaders to confront the traditional approach to curriculum as the sole purview of the classroom and instead positions supplementary education as a tool to improve schools and student success.
Chapters discuss designing, implementing, and sustaining supplementary education programs that positively impact the social, emotional, and academic development of secondary school students, as well as effective strategies for developing stronger connections with the community. This text is designed for use in graduate preparation programs in educational leadership and includes pedagogical features such as learning objectives, reflective exercises, portfolio-building activities, and alignment to educational leadership standards.
1. Gaps in Services, Infrastructure, and Opportunities 2. Using Youth Development to Reframe Supplemental Education: Developing a Conceptional Framework for Student Success 3. Enlisting Community Support For Supplemental Education 4. Reconfiguring The Role of School Support Staff: Lessons From the Community 5. Impact of After School Education on College Persistence 6. Partners In Lifelong Learning: Engaging Parents And Families In The Success of Children 7. Students Taking The Lead: The Importance of Peer Mentoring 8. Expanding STEM education opportunities through supplemental education 9. Funding Afterschool and Supplemental Education Programs 10. Some Concluding Thoughts
Biography
Hazel M. Carter is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at the City College of New York, USA.
"This book offers new ways to assess the activities, outcomes, leadership, partnerships, community resources, and contains a rich resource of information for nonprofit leaders, educators and other providers introducing them to new ways of assessing or thinking about their programs and their outcomes. Dr Carter has succeeded in pulling together in one place, a wealth of information, pedagogical approaches, research findings, a variety of program models, lessons learned, and themes for the reader to review, learn from and use as needed."
- Fern J. Khan, Dean Emerita, Bank Street College
