Building Capacity Amid Turnover, Shifting Priorities, and Growing Needs: Reflecting on 15 Years of Progress and Persistent Gaps in OST Educator Support

We illustrate how our professional learning program (Afterschool Coaching for Reflective Educators in STEM) responds to the strands of the 2009 National Academies report on the status of informal science learning. We identify several Strands discussed in the report, questions that those strands raise for practice and research, and how we have addressed these questions in our work.