A blueprint for promoting academic and social competence in after-school programs / Thomas P. Gullotta [and others], editors ; Jessica M. Ramos, research assistant.
Social Competency -- How Development Affects Learning: Lessons Learned from Developmental, Cognitive, and Natural Science -- After-School Programs -- Promoting Social and Emotional Development in Childhood and Early Adolescence -- Mentoring and Its Role in Promoting Academic and Social Competency -- Service-Learning: Learning by Doing for Others -- A Blueprint for Promoting Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning: The Salmon Program.
Summary
School activities alone are not always sufficient to ensure children's academic progress or socio-emotional development and well-being. And the time when many children typically have the least adult supervision - immediately after school - is also the time that they are at the highest risk to act as perpetrators or become victims of antisocial behavior. Throughout A Blueprint for Promoting Academic and Social Competence in After-School Programs, which focuses on children in grades 1 through 6, noted experts identify the best practices of effective programs and pinpoint methods for enhancing sc.