by Olivia Camarena | Sep 10, 2026 | Launching & Building a Program
The best tools for schools and after-school programs take work off a coordinator’s plate instead of adding to it. Attendance logs itself instead of getting copied from a sign-in sheet, and reports pull straight from data that’s already been collected...
by Olivia Camarena | Sep 8, 2026 | Compliance, Data & Reporting
A pre/post survey asks youth participants or staff the same questions twice: once before a program starts and again after it ends. The gap between the two answers measures the outcome. It’s the standard method out-of-school time (OST) programs use to track...
by Olivia Camarena | Aug 27, 2026 | Compliance, Data & Reporting
Meal tracking connects an after-school program’s daily attendance to its CACFP or NSLP after-school snack reimbursement. Programs get paid only when they can show which children were present and what was served to them that day. A gap in tracking becomes a gap...
by Olivia Camarena | Aug 21, 2026 | Compliance, Data & Reporting
Most out-of-school time (OST) programs, whether run by a nonprofit or a school district, are already tracking data, whether they think of it that way or not. Daily attendance gets logged. Families fill out enrollment forms. Staff jots down notes on which activities...
by Olivia Camarena | Aug 14, 2026 | Program Quality & Curriculum
You already know your program makes a difference. You see it every single day in the student who finally found confidence in your STEAM lab, in the family that finally feels supported, in the staff member who goes home knowing they changed a life. But here’s...
