Kathy Schleyer News

• EDC: EDC Awarded $9.4 Million to Continue Leadership of NCASE
  NIOST will continue its partnership with EDC to ensure that school-age children across the country benefit from high-quality out-of-school time learning.
• Recommendations: Quality Out-of-School Time
  

  by Ellen Gannett, M.Ed. and Elizabeth Starr, M.Ed., National Institute on Out-of-School Time

  
  Quality Out-of-School Time Begins with Investment in Staff

  As expectations for high-quality afterschool and outof-school time (OST) programs continue to rise, a skilled, stable and committed OST workforce is critically important. Yet supports for youth workers, and resulting staff quality, remain uneven at best due in part to a highly fragmented landscape. Compensation remains stagnant and opportunities for professional advancement and public recognition remain practically non-existent.
• Youth Today: When School and Out-of-school Time Intersect
  

  The National Institute on Out-of-School Time is mentioned in this article about the benefit of afterschool programs.