Afterschool Style in Practice: 25 Skill-Building Meetings for Staff

Make in-house, ongoing skill-building for high quality afterschool a regular part of your program.

Ready-to-go meeting plans, handouts, and activities provide training in core concepts and use-it-now techniques to:

• Make homework time work—for everyone
• Ramp up youth “voice and choice”
• Support school content learning with projects and activities
• Connect with families, schools, communities, and kids
• Reinforce literacy and communication skills, and more

25 Skill-Building Meetings is designed specifically for the time-pressed, resource-strapped world of afterschool. You can schedule meetings singly, repeat them as new staff come on board, or create a year-long program of staff development. Use the meeting template in the last chapter to customize your own, tailor sessions to meet your needs, and put “best practices” into action where it matters most—with the children and young people in the program.