Content and materials from the session Youth Voice for Climate Readiness in Schools, on October 13th, 2023 at the Michigan Afterschool Collaborative – Leadership Summit. https://www.qturngroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/GMT20231015-160732_Recording_1920x1080-3.mp4 Session Material – Resource Guide Session Power Point with Notes
VIDEO 3: An introduction to QTurn’s new measures developed to promote more accurate, feasible and low cost evidence about impact and equity in child development settings. https://www.qturngroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/QTurn-Offer-v.21-PART-3.mp4 Part 1: QTurn 101: Neuroperson Framework Part 2: QTurn 101 – More on Schema
Video 2: Using the Neuroperson Framework to see through socio-emotional blind spots and demystify the reality of trauma for child development settings.
VIDEO 1: QTurn’s Neuroperson Framework helps to see children’s mental and behavioral skills more clearly, in support of attachment-aware trauma-informed (AATI) updates to best practice and quality. https://www.qturngroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/QTurn-Offer-v.21-PART-1-1.mp4 Part 2: QTurn 101 – More on Schemas Part 3: QTurn 101 – Outcomes Measures
Share on linkedin LinkedIn Share on twitter Twitter Share on email Email Download Socio-emotional learning (SEL) skills are a partial but necessary cause of children’s developmental outcomes, and SEL skill growth is a key objective for nearly all out-of-school time (OST) programs. The Quality-Outcomes Design and Methods (Q-ODM) toolbox holds an integrated set of tools … Continue reading Realist(ic) Evaluation Tools for OST Programs: The Quality-Outcomes Design and Methods (Q-ODM) Toolbox
Share on linkedin LinkedIn Share on twitter Twitter Share on email Email Download The positivist theory and methodology used by most researchers and evaluators is poorly suited for addressing the formative explanations that guide continuous quality improvement (CQI) processes and the nuanced impact models that pertain to questions about how and how much. QTurn’s Quality-Outcomes … Continue reading Measuring Socio-Emotional Skill, Impact, and Equity Outcomes
Share on linkedin LinkedIn Share on twitter Twitter Share on email Email Download Evaluation evidence about the relations among children’s prior history, engagement in program settings, resulting SEL skill growth, and the ultimately desired transfer outcomes (e.g., agency to succeed in other settings) has been sporadic and fragmented. One reason for this may be that … Continue reading Socio-Emotional Skills, Quality, and Equity: The Multilevel Person-in-Context~neuroperson (MPCn) Framework
The Newark Trust for Education (NTE) Parent Child Plus (PC+) program is an evidence-based early childhood education program for families in the Newark, NJ. NTE seeks to evaluate performance by conducting analyses of existing data for a cohort of over 80 families, assessed four times over 46 weeks using observational measures of parenting practices and … Continue reading Newark Trust for Education Project
The Afterschool Learning at a Distance: Key Themes and Promising Practices describes the experiences and practices of Genesee Intermediate School District: Brides to Success’ (GISD) Team Leads and direct staff serving children and families after substantially redesigning afterschool programming due to the COVID-19 crisis. While the original evaluation plan was to do a (second) round … Continue reading The Afterschool Learning at a Distance: Key Themes and Promising Practices
Reviewing theory and research on socio-emotional learning (SEL) highlights the importance of a wide range of psychological and behavioral skills, ranging from very specific psychological processes that occur on the order of milliseconds (e.g., updating working memory) to broad patterns of behavior that occur over minutes, days, and months (e.g., teamwork and relationship skills). Attempts … Continue reading The multilevel person in context ~ neuroperson (MPCn) model: Guidance for quality improvement systems (QIS) focused on socio-emotional skill growth and transfer outcomes
