Understanding Quality

The purpose of the Quality Standards is to describe high levels of “Quality” of a program at the programmatic, staff, and participant levels. View this video to further understand what the Quality Standards are and why they are important. It highlights how the Quality Standards can be used for continuous quality improvement in your program.

Other Expanded Learning Assessment Resources:

• Comprehensive Assessment of Summer Programs (CASP) 
• Learning in Afterschool & Summer (LIAS) 

This report, part of the second phase of the Quality Standards project, crosswalks the Quality Standards with existing quality assessment tools. This guide is a resource for programs considering different assessment tools; there is no requirement to use the tools in this guide.

California Afterschool Network's Campaign for Quality seeks to connect after school practitioners to research-supported promising practices grounded in field experience. Below, you will find both tools and promising practices. The Campaign for Quality tools are developed by practitioners from the field, in partnership with CDE, to help programs assess and improve overall program quality. The promising practices are companions to the QSA Tools, and were created as the next step following self-assessment.