PO272: Extra Extra: Recommendations to Enhance Student Outcomes in Extracurricular Activities

  • PMD: 5,6
  • Cost: Included in Registration
  • Skill Level: Intermediate
  • Poster Session 3: Promoting Safe and Positive Schools

Learner Objectives

This session will help participants…

  1. understand critical factors that aid in students benefitting from participation in extracurricular activities;
  2. understand techniques and strategies staff in extracurricular activities can implement to emphasize and promote social–emotional learning within their respective settings; and
  3. understand the importance of culturally responsive practices and techniques used specifically within the context of extracurricular activities.

Description

This poster provides recommendations to practitioners on facilitating four key components of youth extracurricular activity participation that are touted as the mechanisms linking student involvement to robust positive outcomes.

Presenter(s)

Ishan Vengurlekar, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Temma M. Levis, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Chloe J. Hendrix, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Sarah J. Green, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Contributor(s)

Stephen P. Kilgus, PhD

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