The Evaluation Exchange
Volume XI, No. 1, Spring 2005
Issue Topic: Complementary Learning
The topic of this issue of The Evaluation Exchange is complementary
learning. Complementary learning posits that we can bolster children's
learning and achievement by linking and aligning both the school and nonschool
arenas in which children live, learn, and play. This means, for example, linking
schools with early childhood programs, out-of-school time programs, and other
programs based in the community. In this issue we delve into the kinds of mechanisms
that can create these linkages and sustain their effectiveness, and highlight
promising approaches for evaluating the complementary-learning practices that
already exist, both in terms of what outcomes to focus on and what methodologies
to use.
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Table of Contents
From the Director's Desk
An introduction to the issue by HFRP's Founder & Director, Heather
B. Weiss, Ed.D.
Theory & Practice
Book Review
Promising Practices
In this issue’s Promising Practices section, we feature discussions of
several mechanisms being used throughout the country to facilitate linkages:
staffing and training, policy, technology, family involvement, and research
and evaluation.
- Project HOPE: Working Across Multiple Contexts to
Support At-Risk Students
In this article, Barbara Jentleson and Helen Westmoreland, from Duke University,
highlight the mechanism of connecting complementary-learning contexts through
staffing patterns and practices.
- Learning Is Everyone’s Business: Learning Supports
in Iowa
On behalf of their partners in the Iowa Collaboration for Youth
Development, Linda Miller and Carol Behrer describe a statewide interagency
collaboration to coordinate educational policies, practices, and programs.
- Technology Goes Home: Connecting Families, Communities,
and Schools
Kelly Faughnan from HFRP describes a program that connects families
and schools through the mechanism of technology.
- Engaging Families in Out-of-School Time Programs
A group of researchers llustrates how the practice of family engagement
can link the out-of-school time, school, and home contexts.
- Studying Contextual Predictors of Participation in
Out-of-School Time Activities
Holly Kreider illustrates how research and data can illuminate
and facilitate links between complementary-learning contexts.
- Increasing the Bottom Line by Supporting Families
Lynn Mitchell, from Corporate Voices for Working Families, describes
how businesses can promote policies and practices that support working families.
Questions & Answers
Ask the Expert
Evaluations to Watch
Spotlight
- SPARKing Innovation
Tony Berkley of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation describes the application
of a theory of change to a complex initiative to facilitate team learning,
strategic management, and program improvement.
New & Noteworthy
An annotated list of organizations and initiatives related to the evaluation
themes in this issue.
This issue of The Evaluation Exchange was published by Harvard Family
Research Project, edited by Julia Coffman,
consultant, and Suzanne Bouffard,
research analyst. It was produced by Stacey
Miller, publications/communications manager, and Tezeta Tulloch, publications
editor. All rights reserved. This periodical may not be reproduced whole or
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Harvard Family Research Project gratefully acknowledges the support of the
Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Marguerite Casey Foundation, the W. K. Kellogg
Foundation, the C. S. Mott Foundation, and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
The contents of this publication are solely the responsibility of Harvard Family
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