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Fall 2022: Evolving the Standard for High Quality
Charles Smith, Ph.D. | March 28th, 2023
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 of online activity content, taking activities outside and, for the first time, implementing a whole new regime of personally protective equipment (PPE) and cohorting practices. This was a lot of new stuff!
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QTurn 101 – Neuroperson Framework
May 2, 2023
VIDEO 1: QTurn’s Neuroperson Framework helps to see children’s mental and behavioral skills more clearly, in support of attachment-aware trauma-informed (AATI) updates to best practice and quality. https://www.qturngroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/QTurn-Offer-v.21-PART-1-1.mp4 Part 2: QTurn
QTurn 101 – More on Schema
May 2, 2023
Video 2: Using the Neuroperson Framework to see through socio-emotional blind spots and demystify the reality of trauma for child development settings.
QTurn 101 – Outcome Measures
May 2, 2023
VIDEO 3: An introduction to QTurn’s new measures developed to promote more accurate, feasible and low cost evidence about impact and equity in child development settings. https://www.qturngroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/QTurn-Offer-v.21-PART-3.mp4 Part 1: QTurn 101: Neuroperson
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Youth Voice and Climate Readiness in Schools
October 13, 2023
Content and materials from the session Youth Voice for Climate Readiness in Schools, on October 13th, 2023 at the Michigan Afterschool Collaborative – Leadership Summit. https://www.qturngroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/GMT20231015-160732_Recording_1920x1080-3.mp4 Session Material – Resource
Realist(ic) Evaluation Tools for OST Programs: The Quality-Outcomes Design and Methods (Q-ODM) Toolbox
November 16, 2021
Share on linkedin LinkedIn Share on twitter Twitter Share on email Email Download Socio-emotional learning (SEL) skills are a partial but necessary cause of children’s developmental outcomes, and SEL skill
Measuring Socio-Emotional Skill, Impact, and Equity Outcomes
November 15, 2021
Share on linkedin LinkedIn Share on twitter Twitter Share on email Email Download The positivist theory and methodology used by most researchers and evaluators is poorly suited for addressing the
Socio-Emotional Skills, Quality, and Equity: The Multilevel Person-in-Context~neuroperson (MPCn) Framework
November 14, 2021
Share on linkedin LinkedIn Share on twitter Twitter Share on email Email Download Evaluation evidence about the relations among children’s prior history, engagement in program settings, resulting SEL skill growth,
Newark Trust for Education Project
August 7, 2020
The Newark Trust for Education (NTE) Parent Child Plus (PC+) program is an evidence-based early childhood education program for families in the Newark, NJ. NTE seeks to evaluate performance by
The Afterschool Learning at a Distance: Key Themes and Promising Practices
July 12, 2020
The Afterschool Learning at a Distance: Key Themes and Promising Practices describes the experiences and practices of Genesee Intermediate School District: Brides to Success’ (GISD) Team Leads and direct staff
The multilevel person in context ~ neuroperson (MPCn) model: Guidance for quality improvement systems (QIS) focused on socio-emotional skill growth and transfer outcomes
October 26, 2019
Reviewing theory and research on socio-emotional learning (SEL) highlights the importance of a wide range of psychological and behavioral skills, ranging from very specific psychological processes that occur on the
Promoting Healthy Development of Young People: Outcomes Framework 2.0
October 23, 2019
In the summer of 2018, the Local Government Association (LGA) in England commissioned the Centre for Youth Impact to produce an outcomes framework to help partners across the English youth
Impact Evaluation for the Palm Beach County Quality Improvement System (QIS) using Fully Pattern-Centered Analytics
April 16, 2019
In this study, we used performance data generated by Prime Time Inc. in Palm Beach County and fully pattern-centered methodology to describe the chain of causal effects as a cascade
Measure Once, Cut Twice: Using Data For Continuous and Impact Evaluation in Education Programs
April 9, 2019
Frustration and confusion often occur when practitioners require detailed information about program processes for continuous quality improvement (CQI) while policy-makers require evidence of outcome effects for accountability and funding. Impact
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Newark Trust for Education Project
August 7, 2020
The Newark Trust for Education (NTE) Parent Child Plus (PC+) program is an evidence-based early childhood education program for families in the Newark, NJ. NTE seeks to evaluate performance by
The Afterschool Learning at a Distance: Key Themes and Promising Practices
July 12, 2020
The Afterschool Learning at a Distance: Key Themes and Promising Practices describes the experiences and practices of Genesee Intermediate School District: Brides to Success’ (GISD) Team Leads and direct staff
Impact Evaluation for the Palm Beach County Quality Improvement System (QIS) using Fully Pattern-Centered Analytics
April 16, 2019
In this study, we used performance data generated by Prime Time Inc. in Palm Beach County and fully pattern-centered methodology to describe the chain of causal effects as a cascade
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