How Out-of-School Education Shapes Students
 

Educators agree that different approaches of learning need to be addressed with each generation of learners. Education and learning no longer happens just between 7 AM and 3 PM. Cathy Lewis Long, co-founder and executive director of The Sprout Fund  said, “We understand that students don’t stop learning at three o’clock and learning continues in out-of-school time, it continues while they’re online, while they’re with their friends, while youth are at home. And what we really want to begin to think about is how we can create learning pathways to carry and extend that learning from the school building in and through the community.”

Educators in and out of classrooms agree that informal learning experiences are relevant to a young person in school, work and life. The vast out-of-school time network in the Allegheny County area allows youth to have a holistic experiences outside of the traditional classroom. 

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