Best Practices
Access to the Future: Academics and Positive Youth Development in the Middle Grades
This resource provides schools with group exercise tools to assess the academic and youth development opportunities in their schools.
Action for Healthy Kids Nutrition Education Resource Database
Includes 54 downloadable examples of research-based promising practices for school-based and OST activities.
After School Counts!
Commissioned by the After School Project and written by Leila Feister, with Policy Studies Associates, this guide is intended to raise awareness about the issues and options involved in tracking attendance and participation in out-of-school activities.
California Department of Education (DOE): Before and After-School Learning
Link to web magazine coverage and summary of report that documents improvement in attendance, behavior, and achievement at school attributed to out-of-school programming. Includes profiles of three programs.
Harvard Family Research Project Evaluation
Describes the evaluation approaches, methods and performance measures that some cities are using for evaluation.
National Governor’s Association: Center for Best Practices
The NGA has created a comprehensive database containing profiles of state-level extra learning opportunities for school-age children. It profiles more than 160 programs from 44 states, territories and commonwealths.
US Conference of Mayors: Best Practices Database
This searchable database of program ideas and innovations at the municipal level includes after-school initiatives. Use the search tool and type in "after school".
Center for Summer Learning
The Center for Summer Learning at Johns Hopkins University provides a variety of resources and research about summer learning for youth.