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Share on linkedin LinkedIn Share on twitter Twitter Share on email Email Download 3,191 words | 21 min In the prior two blogs, we talked about how a group of master afterschool teachers at 25 afterschool sites in Genesee County have responded to the pandemic years. One important area of evolution was the new service models that put staff in the field visiting homes and meeting parents at drop off sites, producing a wide variety

Share on linkedin LinkedIn Share on twitter Twitter Share on email Email Download 1,581 words | 11 min Like all managers I interviewed last fall, Keoshia, site manager for YouthQuest at Durant-Tuuri-Mott Elementary School, agreed that over 50% of this year’s students were behind academically. For that reason, the team at DTM Elementary afterschool is focused on math and literacy. However, for Keoshia and her team at DTM, the children’s socio-emotional skills are about the

Share on linkedin LinkedIn Share on twitter Twitter Share on email Email Download 1,680 words | 11 min The field of afterschool program services has evolved quickly since March 2020, from the pressing of resources at hand into responses to urgent new needs. These new practices may spell out the future of afterschool services and new roles for afterschool teachers.   The new stuff can be broken into two chunks. First, there were new service models