Engagement

Title
Muggle Magic
Museums and Community-Based Organizations Partnering to Support Family Literacy
Now More Than Ever: Changing Lives in an After School Theater Program
Out-of-School Time Sponsors and Partners
Participation Over Time: Keeping Youth Engaged from Middle School to High School
Playful Learning Landscapes
Positive Youth Development Through Hip-Hop Music Production
Process Over Product
Promoting Mental Health Careers and Improving Mental Health Outcomes Among Latinx Youth
Promoting Physical Activity in Afterschool Programs
Raising Real Leaders Using Virtual Worlds
Reinventing ADHD in Out-of-School Time
Relationships
Rowing and Growing
Seed Balls and the Circle of Courage: A Decolonization Model of Youth Development in an Environmental Stewardship Program
Self-Assessment of High-Quality Academic Enrichment Practices
Shared Research Dialogue: One College’s Model for Professional Development of Youth Practitioners
Shifting Expectations: Bringing STEM to Scale through Expanded Learning System
So You Want to Be a Superhero? How Making Comics in an Afterschool Setting Can Develop Young People’s Creativity, Literacy, and Identity
Stone Soup
Strong Start, Strong Readers
Supporting Afterschool Literacy
Supporting the Literacy Development of Low-Income Children in Afterschool Programs: Challenges and Exemplary Practices
System Building, Relationships, and Quality Interview with NIOST’s Ellen Gannett
Systemwide Implementation of Project-Based Learning: The Philadelphia Approach
The Arts Matter in Afterschool: Community Youth Arts and Out-of-School Time
The Birth of a Field
The Connection between Afterschool Programs and In-School Success: The Science Mentoring Project
The Effect of Afterschool Program Participation on English Language Acquisition
The Engineering Identity of Afterschool Educators
The Four Cs of Afterschool Programming A New Case Method for a New Field
The Micro Temporal Arc: A Practical Planning Tool for Afterschool Student Engagement
Transcend the Summer Slump
Transformative Work in Programs for Children and Youth
Trends in Creative Youth Development Programs
Using Screen Time to Promote Green Time
Using Video Game Design to Motivate Students
Voices From the Field: "Systems Trump Programs” A Case for Agency Support in Afterschool
What Afterschool STEM Does Best: How Stakeholders Describe Youth Learning Outcomes
What If? Building Creative Cultures for STEM Making and Learning
Youth Engagement and Quality of Experience in Afterschool Programs
Youth GO: An Approach to Gathering Youth Perspectives in Out-of-School Time Programs
Youth Media Citizenship: Beyond “Youth Voice”
Youth-Adult Partnerships: A Powerful Force for Community Change
Youth-Led Participatory Action Research: Promoting Youth Voice and Adult Support in Afterschool Programs

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    "NIOST has been an anchor for numerous school age care projects we do, including ASQ (After-School Quality) and Links to Learning. They are a nationally respected organization that Pennsylvania has partnered with for over 20 years."



    – Betsy O. Saatman, TA Specialist/SAC Initiatives, Pennsylvania Key
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    "NIOST was a core partner in supporting the development of quality improvement systems across the nine cities that participated in The Wallace Foundation Next Generation Afterschool System-Building Initiative. The NIOST team worked well with other technical assistance partners in the initiative, always willing to pitch in and collaborate with others to make our professional learning community meetings a team effort. I truly hope the Foundation has an opportunity to partner with them in the future."


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