by ExCEL ASP | Apr 13, 2018 | General News, Program Design, Spotlights, Tips/Best Practices
Garfield CYC hosts a Service Learning Club every Wednesday where students learn about different world issues and talk about what they can do to outreach, support, and create actions to help others understand these issues. One of the topics our 3rd-4th graders chose...
by ExCEL ASP | Apr 2, 2018 | Healthy Active Youth, Program Design, Social Emotional Learning, Spotlights
Our next Spotlight focuses on Chinatown YMCA’s Jean Parker After School Program! Students at Jean Parker learn about different subjects through hands on projects. The After School Program have a partnership with Broadway Gardens (a community garden) where...
by ExCEL ASP | Mar 16, 2018 | Culture and Climate, General News, Program Design, Spotlights
At Dr. William Cobb Elementary, students and staff celebrated Black History Month and were excited about the release of Black Panther in theaters on February 16th. With this release, they took a journey to Wakanda, a fictional place but represented by much of the...
by ExCEL ASP | Mar 2, 2018 | Academic Support, Culture and Climate, General News, Program Design, Spotlights
The Bayview Beacon has kicked off 2018 with the return of our enrichment programs to Burton High School and MLK Middle School! To name a few, our Burton participants continue to learn coding with ScriptEd, drop extraordinary beats at Drum Corps, design and lead events...
by ExCEL ASP | Feb 2, 2018 | Academic Support, Program Design, Social Emotional Learning, Spotlights, Systems and Structures, Tips/Best Practices
After School Enrichment Program (ASEP) teachers are trained to provide literacy based programming (theme based learning) which is designed to enhance student’s reading and writing skills throughout the year using fun and interactive activities. Each week ASEP...
by ExCEL ASP | Jan 19, 2018 | Healthy Active Youth, Meetings, Program Design, Social Emotional Learning, Spotlights, Tips/Best Practices
“We all want to visit each other’s programs but it never seems possible. Today we were able to do just that.” commented Patricia Barraza (Site Coordinator at John O’Connell High), after the ExCEL PM/SC December Meeting. A.P. Giannini’s (APG) After School Staff shared...