Building Successful Extracurricular Enrichment Programs

The Essential How-To Guide for Schools and Communities

Michael Cain

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9781032185156
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000562743
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

Building Successful Extracurricular Enrichment Programs is a must-read for educators or administrators who want to develop, implement and maintain engaging out-of-school programs.

Accessible and easy to use, this book focuses on four basic approaches to building enrichment programs: grassroots, semi-structured, franchise and fully structured. Readers will walk through each stage of the process, from conception, to fund-raising, to implementation and evaluation. Successful programs require significant, time, energy and resources; this book makes what is often a very demanding process understandable and obtainable.

With practical tools and tips to support every student, this essential guidebook equips teachers, administrators and home educators with the step-by-step strategies to confidently design their own extracurricular programs.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• The Introduction (or Don’t Be Afraid)
• 1 Establishing a Vision (or I See What You’re Saying)
• 2 The Impossible Dream Machine (or the Kids Lead the Way)
• 3 Semi-Structured Programs (or I’ll Do the Heavy Lifting and You Pay the Bill)
• 4 The Franchise Extracurricular Enrichment Program (or Mind If I Tag Along)
• 5 The Program Director (or Are You Crazy)
• 6 On Being the Program Director (or You Knew the Job Was Dangerous When You Took it)
• 7 The Fully Structured Program (or the Whole Ball of Wax)
• 8 Fear of Funding (or Beggars Can’t Be Choosers)
• The Conclusion (or the Show Has Just Begun)