Resources

10,000 Black History Artifacts

The New 3Rs is a resource for educators and families working to ensure Black Lives Matter. We offer programs and resources to educate and empower children, parents, educators and workplace leaders through a lens of racial justice and racial awareness.

Building Community from Crisis: A Collaborative Fund for the Out-of-School Time Field

What steps can grantmakers take to go above and beyond when an entire education sector is faced with unexpected challenges? This EdFunders case study explores an out-of-school time pooled fund.

District-Partner Problem-Solving in Social-Emotional Learning Efforts

These case studies explore how schools, partners met challenges in ventures to build children’s social-emotional skills. Reach report draws on lessons from out-of-school time providers and partners.​​​​​​

Promoting Healthy Futures: Afterschool Provides the Supports Parents Want for Children's Well-Being

The Afterschool Alliance's 4th edition of America After 3PM provides a detailed account of children in the afterschool hours, identifying: trends of participation in, and unmet demand for, afterschool programs; the experiences and opportunities programs afford; and which children and families are missing out, and why.

The Out-of-School Time Leader's Guide to Equitable Hiring and Staff Development Practices

Because the OST sector is rooted in the principles of youth development including creating safe and welcoming spaces for all young people, the sector is primed to be a leader in using similar philosophies to enact equitable hiring and staff development practices. We realize there is a broader need for a comprehensive overhaul of job quality in our sector, from rethinking compensation to making benefits more accessible to creating career pathways.  We can do better, and we will absolutely need to in order to meet the current and future staffing demands of the growing OST field.

This guide is just the beginning of support needed to make comprehensive changes to systems, policies, funding, and practices. It is intended to catalyze the OST workforce, our stakeholders and partners to examine systems, elevate practices and policies that will build and strengthen the field.

A Natural Fit: Supporting After-School Staff of Color in Teacher Pipelines

Our report, A Natural Fit: Supporting After-School Staff of Color in Teacher Pipelines, examines the experiences of current and former teacher candidates of color with after-school or OST experience to provide insights into how teacher preparation programs and state policymakers can create the right programmatic experiences and conditions to recruit after-school/OST staff into the teaching profession and prepare them for success.

We focus specifically on the experiences of candidates in what are considered non-traditional preparation pathways, such as teacher residencies and Grow Your Own programs. These programs tend to attract and retain a more diverse pool of teachers, with deeper connections to local school communities than traditional teacher education pathways.