Youth Development

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“I Could See Myself as a Scientist”: The Potential of Out-of-School Time Programs to Influence Girls’ Identities in Science
“Writing Is Not Really Something I Do”: Engaging Reluctant Male Writers
A New Way to Assess Nutrition Knowledge: The Healthy Plate Photo Method
A Seat at the Table: Listening to Adolescent Black Girls
A Youth Development Approach to Evaluation: Critical Participatory Action Research
An “I” in Teen? Perceived Agency in a Youth Development Program
An Unexpected Outcome
And Girl Justice for All: Blending Girl-Specific and Youth Development Practices
Before the School Bell Rings: How a Before-School Physical Activity Program Improves Executive Functions
Beyond the Pipeline: STEM Pathways for Youth Development
Building APAS and Literacy Capacity in Philadelphia Out-of-School Time Programs
Check it Off ! A Youth Development Approach to Staff Training
Connecting Urban Students with Engineering Design: Community-Focused, Student-Driven Projects
Creating an Agency Culture: A Model for Common Humanity
Creating Opportunities for Mutual Affiliation: Gang Prevention and Relational-Cultural Theory in Project YES
Creative Youth Development in the Context of Homelessness
Critical Friendship: Helping Youth Lift as They Climb Together
Crumpled Molecules and Edible Plastic: Science Learning Activation in Out-of-School Time
Curriculum and Professional Development for OST Science Education: Lessons Learned from California 4-H
Designing for Belonging and Becoming in an Afterschool Tinkering Program
Designing for Engagement
Empowering Youth Work Supervisors with Action Research Strategies
Equity and Inclusion: An Action Agenda for Youth Development Professionals
Fostering Arts Education Through a University-Afterschool Partnership
Girls’ Challenge Seeking: How Outdoor Exposure Can Support Girls in Taking Positive Risks
Growing Our Own: Former Participants as Staff in Afterschool Youth Development Programs
Helping Low-Income Urban Youth Make the Transition to Early Adulthood: A Retrospective Study of the YMCA Youth Institute
Helping Youth Prepare for Careers: What Can Out-of-School Time Programs Do?
Hmong High School Students in Afterschool: Effects on Achievement, Behavior, and Self-Esteem
How to Introduce Creative Youth Development into an Existing Afterschool Program
Learning Across Space Instead of Over Time: Redesigning a School-Based STEM Curriculum for OST
Long-Term Participants: A Museum Program Enhances Girls’ STEM Interest, Motivation, and Persistence
Making and Mentors: What it Takes to Make Them Better Together
Making Learning Work
Math Is Like a Scary Movie? Helping Young People Overcome Math Anxiety
Measuring Program Quality: Evidence of the Scientific Validity of the Assessment of Program Practices Tool
Muggle Magic
Next Generation Youth Work Coalition
Paper Copters and Potential: Leveraging Afterschool and Youth Development Trainers to Extend the Reach of STEM Programs
Partnerships to Transform STEM Learning
Playful Learning Landscapes
Positive Youth Development Through Hip-Hop Music Production
Process Over Product
Raising Real Leaders Using Virtual Worlds
Relationships
Research-Based Practices in Afterschool Mentoring Programs
Researcher’s Notebook: Converging issues in an Out-of-school Time Program for African Refugee Children
Rites of Passage: Preparing Youth for Social Change
Rowing and Growing
Seed Balls and the Circle of Courage: A Decolonization Model of Youth Development in an Environmental Stewardship Program

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The Afterschool Matters Initiative is managed by the National Institute on Out-of-School Time, a program of the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College

Georgia Hall, PhD, is Managing Editor of the Afterschool Matters Journal

Wellesley Centers for Women
Wellesley College
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Wellesley, MA 02481-8203 USA

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