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A Tale from the Youth Field: Using Stories to Understand Community-Based Youth Programs

A vivid portrait of a little girl, her mother, and their experience at a neighborhood agency demonstrates how stories taken from the field can illustrate the power of peer education and motivate staff toward more inspired educational after school programming.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Sara Hill
resource research Media and Technology

So You Want to Be a Superhero? How Making Comics in an Afterschool Setting Can Develop Young People’s Creativity, Literacy, and Identity

A unique afterschool class in making comic strips and comic books, taught by a professional comic artist, encourages both literacy development and identity development in adolescent participants.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Sarita Khurana
resource research Public Programs

Creating Engaged Citizens: Using Young Adult Novels and Thematic Units to Encourage Democratic Action

Pairing age-appropriate novels with thematic units on the civil rights movement and the presidential election allows one afterschool practitioner to bring democracy to life for inner-city middle school students.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Mary Cipollone
resource research Public Programs

Collaboration between Afterschool Practitioners and In-school Teachers

A school-day teacher discovers how collaboration with her afterschool counterpart benefits their students.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Annmarie Schamper