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After-school Success: Academic Enrichment Strategies with Urban Youth
Author(s): Anne Bouie (Author), Lucy N. Friedman (Foreword)
- Publisher: Teachers College Press
- Publication Date: 15 Dec. 2006
- Language: English
- Print length: 224 pages
- ISBN-10: 0807747459
- ISBN-13: 9780807747452
Book Description
In this inspiring book, Anne Bouie details her work with underachieving urban youth and their families at Project Interface, a math and science enrichment program, where she developed a unique approach to raising achievement. Bouie argues that rather than identifying deficits and dysfunctions in the family, a more effective method would focus on strengths and build on the inherent resilience of the community. She describes the design and implementation of this collaboratively organized, community-based after-school enrichment program that worked. Her insights are a valuable tool for any educational or youth program interested in fostering lasting academic success. The book’s features include: testimonials from youth, staff, and parents who participated in a successful after-school program; indicators for effective and ineffective implementation based on a field-tested model; indicators to help motivate and enable students to put forth effort and try, in spite of having failed in the past; strategies to engage families and community members; and insights for policymakers and practitioners who may wish to start a program or assess an existing one.
Editorial Reviews
Review
This book is a valuable addition to the ‘how to do it’ literature on teaching and learning in out-of-school settings. With very readable prose, readers are guided through many of the details of organizing, operating, and sustaining an after-school program that adds to the existing proof that it can be done. – Edmund W. Gordon, Professor Emeritus, Yale University and Teachers College, Columbia University
About the Author
Anne Bouie works as a consultant to urban schools and policy making organizations focused on positive systemic change. She served as Executive Director of Interface Institute, a community-based organization working with underachieving, high-potential children and youth in East Oakland.