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Lesson Plans in the Spotlight
 Winter Holidays: Celebrating Diversity
Grade level: Pre-K - 2
Subject area: Culture and Diversity, Holidays, Respect, Holidays and Seasonal Themes, Winter
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 Money: Kids and Cash
Grade level: 3-5
Subject area: economics
Standard: Understands basic features of market structures and exchanges.
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Building Bridges – A Peace Corps Classroom Guide to Cross-Cultural Understanding
Grade level: 6-12
Subject area: Multi-culturalism
For those of you looking for innovative ways to bring multi-culturalism to your programs, you may want to check out the Peace Corps Worldwise Schools materials. While a lot of it focuses on education, there are interesting multimedia options too, like podcasts from Peace Corps volunteers in the field, videos made my students from other cultures, stories, and lesson plans (for those of you with an academic program). Click here to view the complete lesson plan
To learn more visit their website: www.peacecorps.gov/wws
Useful Publications
The resources described below were produced by the National Center for Community Education in collaboration with the Afterschool Alliance and are highly recommended.
 Meeting the High School Challenge: Making After-School Work for Older Students
This report examines the challenges of engaging teens in after-school programs and describes three programmatic approaches. It reflects the wisdom of The After-School Corporation (TASC) and its many partners in engaging older students, and creating programs that can be replicated on a large scale.
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Snapshots of Sustainability: Profiles of Successful Strategies for Financing Out-of-School Time Programs
This document captures 32 profiles of out-of-school initiatives that have succeeded in sustaining their work. The profiles include initiatives that have taken place in rural and urban settings across the United States and that include many different programs of different ages and structures. The document shows common trends and strategies that have been used to achieve sustainability and demonstrates successful financing and sustainability strategies. It also includes a list of resources for learning more about financing and sustaining out-of-school programs.
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