Resources tagged with term(s) "Out-of-school time, AmeriCorps"

  • Sample Projects
    Read several examples of AmeriCorps projects and how they are making a difference in communities across the nation.
  • Featured Effective Practices
    List of effective practices from the Resource Center’s Effective Practices Collection related to the Corporation’s issue areas of education, the environment, human needs, program and volunteer...
  • Bringing technology support to schools in low-income communities
    AmeriCorps members, in partnership with technology firms and nonprofit organizations, are bringing technology support to schools and community organizations across America. Serving as program...
  • Including special education students as camp counselors
    My Corps Summer is a two-week program that gives special education high school students from the Philadelphia area the opportunity to gain valuable job and life skills and improve academic goals by...
  • Building effective programs for summer learning
    Summer should never be a break in any child's intellectual development. Summer learning can come from reading books, singing songs, playing games, listening to stories, taking trips, and other kinds...
  • Joining supervisory boards to improve relations with project sites
    When the AmeriCorps program director of Community College of Rhode Island joined the supervisory board of the project site his members served at, the result was a better understanding of the site's...
  • Implementing a statewide reading program for elementary students
    The Washington Reading Corps was created in 1998 to provide intensive and immediate instruction to elementary students in schools with low reading assessment scores. The program is a unique service...
  • Using the assets model to understand adolescent development
    The Paso del Norte Assets for Youth AmeriCorps program provides youth, ages 12 to 18, of El Paso, Texas, with positive influences and activities based on the 40 developmental assets framework...
  • Motivating students to complete homework
    By using recreation time as an incentive, after-school programs motivate students to complete their homework assignments. Athletes in Service AmeriCorps members have successfully implemented the...
  • Motivating students with homework stations
    Older students often require guidance to complete homework assignments, but they are not receptive to traditional after-school programs. Homework stations empower students to take control of their...
  • Supporting adolescent females with a leadership group
    Studies have shown that a dramatic decline in girls' self-esteem occurs between the ages of eight and 18. The International Learning Program in an alternative high school in Portland, Oregon, started...
  • Creating a bilingual after-school program
    The students at Vose Elementary School in Beaverton, Oregon, were receiving intense English literacy skills during the school day. Jenessa Craig, an AmeriCorps member with Partnerships for Student...
  • Implementing a team-tutoring program for literacy instruction
    Low-performing readers can benefit from regular one-on-one instruction with a volunteer tutor. However, many programs face difficulties recruiting volunteers who are willing to commit to multiple...
  • Keeping schools open during non-school hours
    This excerpt from the book 150 Tested Strategies to Prevent Crime from Small Cities, Counties, and Rural Communities, highlights the practice of keeping schools open before and after school hours,...