Learning After School: A Step-by-step Guide to Providing an Academic Safety Net and Promoting Student Initiative

by Sheila Connors, Stephen J. Costello, Kate Murray

This how-to guidebook by teachers at Boston Collegiate Charter School (formerly known as South Boston Harbor Academy Charter School) outlines five underlying goals achieved through after-school learning and how this program addresses those goals. Topics include the conditions that help make a supportive after-school environment, the enforcement program to encourage students to take repsonsibility for their work, and various safety nets that offer concentrated, individual teaching time. This book highlights an extracurricular program that combines highly effective tutoring time and academic support with a more relaxed atmosphere that allows students to interact with teachers as role models in a less structured setting.

72 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003