The Learning in Afterschool & Summer project promotes five core learning principles for afterschool programs. Learning in afterschool should be Active, Collaborative, Meaningful, Geared for Mastery, and Expand Horizons. The back to school topic this month: Equity.

• Equity and Access in OST Programs
  Discussion on recently released book, Changemakers! Practitioners Advance Equity and Access in Out-of-School Time Programs, which promotes and disseminates original theoretical and empirical research and promising practices from practitioners to further grow and strengthen the OST field. 
• Equity: A Different Literacy Lane For Youth Of Color
  Daniel Summerhill is an Oakland native and a poet, spoken word artist and college professor. He recently led a ten-week writing workshop for young black men in Oakland which explored what it means to be young and black in today’s day and age.