"Work in Progress" Webinar Series

This webinar series will present periodic updates, lessons learned, and research findings from our work on quality assessment, accountability and improvement systems.

The first webinar is about the Technical Assistance and Coaching Support Services Initiative (TACSS) for Michigan 21st Century Community Learning Center grantees. TACSS was designed to improve the quality of afterschool experiences available to Michigan students and provides an example of a state of the art accountability and improvement policy successfully implemented at scale. This webinar will provide information on the elements of the TACSS model, implementation successes and challenges, and the foundational partnership between state education agency, non-profit research and technical assistance organization, and university-based evaluation team.

This webinar will be of particular interest to persons who are:

• Building accountability and improvement models focused on the quality of instruction and adult-child interaction.
• Using or considering the Youth Program Quality Assessment or Youth Program Quality Intervention.
• Administering budgets dedicated to program monitoring, professional development and evaluation.

This webinar occurred on June 15, 2010 and July 13, 2010.  View a recording of these sessions by clicking on the dates.

Other webinars in this series:

• September 29: Low Stakes Accountability
• Date TBD: The Youth Program Quality Intervention Research Findings