Building and Managing Quality Afterschool Programs. A Practitioner's Guide

This Guide is intended to share the insights of SEDL's National Partnership for Quality Afterschool Learning (the National Partnership) as well as information about both the academic and the organizational and management practices that successful afterschool programs use. The authors have organized these practices into the following four focus areas: (1) program organization; (2) academic programming practices; (3) supportive relationships in afterschool; and (4) achieving program outcomes. Within each focus area, the authors describe the key practices of successful programs. In addition, they provide a Quality-o-Meter tool to help reflect on practices. The authors then provide a Planning for Action tool to help document plans for implementing practices to increase the program's quality.