The 21st Century Community Learning Center (CCLC) Grant Program's focus is to provide
expanded academic enrichment opportunities for children attending selected schools and their families.
Summer CLCs provide
expanded academic enrichment opportunities to help students bridge the academic gap between school years, which include youth development activities, technology education, art, music and recreation activities.
Not exact matches
The Massachusetts
Expanded Learning Time (ELT) Initiative is based on the notion that providing teachers with more time to teach and plan, and giving students additional exposure to
academic enrichment and extracurricular activities, will increase student achievement and teacher effectiveness.
This state - administered, federally funded program provides five - year grant funding to establish or
expand before - and after - school programs that provide disadvantaged kindergarten through twelfth - grade students (particularly students who attend schools in need of improvement) with
academic enrichment opportunities and supportive services to help the students meet state and local standards in core content areas.
Services that support student's
academic success may be offered at or near the school building, and can include primary, mental, and dental health care; family engagement, including adult education; preschool learning;
academic enrichment;
expanded afterschool or summer programming; mentoring; postsecondary education; and career options awareness.
To be effective, the concept of
expanded learning time requires the complete redesign of a school's educational program in a way that combines
academics with
enrichment for a well - rounded student experience and that supports teachers by giving them more time for planning, training, and professional development.
States encourage schools that choose to
expand learning time to add 300 additional hours to the standard school - year schedule, allowing more time for the three key areas:
academics,
enrichment programming, and teacher collaboration
During a time when large numbers of low - income children are continuing to fall behind academically, however, an innovative approach to educating them with both
academics and
enrichment such as sports and arts has emerged:
expanded learning time as part of school - reform efforts.
Time for Teachers: Leveraging Time to Strengthen Instruction & Empower Teachers examines 17 high - performing and fast - improving schools around the country that have taken advantage of
expanded school schedules to provide students with more time for engaging
academic and
enrichment classes and teachers with more time to collaborate with colleagues, analyze students data, create new lesson plans, and develop new skills.
The
expanded Middle School Prep program also serves as an enhancement to the education that students are receiving in their schools and provides the support and
enrichment necessary to ensure
academic success during the middle school years and beyond.
Due to Bonham's
academic success and research by Collier & Tomas that Dual Language has in the
enrichment of the students»
academic experience, Dr. Olivia Hernandez, Assistant Superintendent, is
expanding the Dual Language program into other schools such as Mark Twain and Irving.
ACE - 21st Century Community Learning Centers is a federal grant program issued by the state whose purpose is to establish or
expand community learning centers that provide students with
academic enrichment opportunities along with activities designed to complement the students» regular
academic program during after school hours.
In Maine, the primary purpose of the 21st CCLC program is to provide school and community partnerships with funding to establish or
expand programs that provide students in high - need, economically - disadvantaged communities with
academic enrichment opportunities designed to complement traditional school day curriculum.
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), signed into law in December 2015, further provides that none of the funds made available by this Act be used to allow 21st CCLC initiative funding for
expanded learning time unless these activities provide
enrichment and engaging
academic activities for students at least 300 additional program hours before, during, or after the traditional school day and supplements, but does not supplant school day requirements.