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CIL3: The program provides families a description of planned intentional experiences for schoolagers that must include the following content areas: social-emotional, physical, academic, creative expression, culture, character development, and STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics
Ideally, comprehensive OST programs include both extended learning opportunities to support the school day and schoolage care to support working families. Planned, intentional experiences ensure schoolagers are engaged in learning outside of the standard school day.
For this indicator, include each of the following content areas:
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Social-Emotional: How young people and adults acquire and apply the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to develop healthy identities, manage emotions, achieve personal/collective goals, feel/show empathy for others, establish/maintain supportive relationships, and make responsible and caring decisions.
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Physical: The ability to implement fine motor and gross motor activities for schoolagers, indoors or outdoors.
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Academic: A defined area of knowledge or skill in a curricular program. For example, reading, language arts, math, science, and social studies are all academic content or subject areas.
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Creative Expression: Using our minds and imaginations to create something that represents ourselves. There are countless ways to express ourselves creatively, through music, visual art, crafting, writing, photography, drama, or movement.
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Culture: Things, customs, beliefs, and values. Culture can be thought of in terms of concrete: items and objects we see, hold, and use, as well as specific activities. Items such as clothing, artwork, food, and activities such as dance are tangible symbols of a person’s culture. Experiences show how people live their lives, what they believe, and what values they hold dear. Family roles, child-rearing patterns, communication styles, and holiday traditions are ways in which culture influences how we live our daily lives. Culture shapes how we see ourselves (our identity), how we learn, and how we interact with others.
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Character Development: Qualities such as caring, responsibility, respect for oneself and others, fairness, trustworthiness, citizenship, and self-restraint promote a healthy, safe, and supportive learning environment.
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STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics. These fields share an emphasis on innovation, problem-solving, and critical thinking for children.
This indicator requires that the program has a description of planned intentional experiences for schoolagers, including all required content areas. A description is something that is written that the program has in place. This could be a policy, statement, plan, or something else. Once the program creates its policy, statement, plan, etc. the description needs to be shared with families.
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