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Peer reviewedGlazer, Neil T.; Williams, Sharron – Educational Leadership, 2001
Key ingredients for achieving academic success include being prepared, taking responsibility for one's learning, making an effort, and completing homework every day. At Shaker Heights (Ohio) Middle School, after-school programs (academic sessions, a homework center, a homework hotline, and a university tutorial program) help students complete…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Homework, Middle Schools, Program Descriptions
Peer reviewedHeckman, Paul E.; Sanger, Carla – Educational Leadership, 2001
Out-of-school educational settings and activities should involve varied learning modes deviating from the narrow skills and tasks of schooling. As a Los Angeles after-school program shows, students learn better when instruction builds on what they already know, helps them express their ideas, and develops activities related to their interests.…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Elementary Education, Enrichment Activities, Guidelines
Peer reviewedKolbe, Grace C.; Berkin, Beverly – Educational Leadership, 2000
Although after-school programs offer many activities--from cooking classes to computer technology, homework assistance, and sports--they also provide an effective environment for health education and wellness instruction, especially pregnancy prevention. Exemplary programs for middle- and high-schoolers in Palm Beach County, Florida, are…
Descriptors: Adolescents, After School Programs, Health Education, High Schools
Peer reviewedFoster, Michele; Lewis, Jeffrey; Onafowora, Laura – Educational Leadership, 2005
Master teachers working in real urban classrooms have shared their exemplary teaching practices in an After-School Pedagogical Laboratory (L-TAPL), a program for elementary students that aims to improve the achievement of urban students and the competence of their teachers. The L-TAPL enrichment program curriculum includes language arts, math,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Enrichment Activities, Master Teachers, Urban Schools
Peer reviewedCavanaugh, Mary Patricia; And Others – Educational Leadership, 1997
Seeking an afterschool program to help some fourth through sixth graders with reading, writing, and analysis, an Ohio elementary school formed a partnership with John Carol University, in Cleveland. Tutors were future teachers enrolled in a Reading-and-Writing-Across-the-Curriculum course; tutees were 25 children who needed either remedial work or…
Descriptors: After School Programs, College School Cooperation, Education Majors, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedMaguire, Sue – Educational Leadership, 2000
Molly Stark School in Bennington, Vermont, is a year-round community school that offers a range of education, health and social services benefiting the students, community, and parents. Five successful initiatives (after-school, birth-to-5, mentoring, health and wellness, and parent literacy and involvement programs) are described. (MLH)
Descriptors: After School Programs, Community Schools, Elementary Education, Family Programs
