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It explains participation as enrollment, attendance, and engagement, and argues micro arcs influence attendance and engagement by helping youth remember and anticipate meaningful daily steps. 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Quality out-of-school time (OST) programs clearly can have beneficial social and academic effects on youth (Durlak, Weissberg,& Pachan, 2010; Eccles, Barber, Stone, & Hunt, 2003;  \nVandell et al., 2005) . However, these outcomes are not guaranteed (Chen & Harklau, 2017; Eccles et al. , 2003) . Realizing the potential for improved social and academic outcomes depends at least in part on the ways in which afterschool programs are structured.  \nAt the most basic level, in order to gain the potential benefits of afterschool programming, young people must participate. In order to maintain participation overtime, programs must “hook” young people’s attention. One common strategy is to structure program activities so that they build, over a semester or a year, to a culminating end product. Larson (2000) and Heath (2001) have referred to this pattern as a “temporal arc.”  \nMy ethnographic research at a theater afterschool program builds on the concept of the temporal arc to reveal a practical concept I call the “micro temporal arc”: the day-by-day version of the longer-term temporal arc. A long-term temporal arc can seem daunting when, as many practitioners can attest, youth are prone to forget what they did yesterday, let alone last week. Thinking of daily and weekly planning in terms of micro temporal arcs that feed into the full temporal arc, with its culminating product, can help practitioners to engage youth on a daily basis and thereby promote long-term participation.  \nParticipation and the Temporal Arc  \nThe potential for positive outcomes of OST programming, beyond simply having a safe place to be after school, is a  \nSCARLETT EISENHAUER has a PhD in anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her current research interests include variable pathways towards youth contextualized well-being and the incorporation of embodied reactivity, such as electrodermal activity, into ethnographic methodologies.  \nfunction of young people’s participation. Weiss, Little, and Bouffard (2005) outline three components of participation: enrollment, or plans to attend; attendance, or actually being present over a period of time; and engagement, or active involvement. Micro temporal arcs come into play only after youth have chosen to be present, so they can affect attendance and engagement but not enrollment. Weiss and colleagues (2005) point out that attendance is a necessary but not sufficient component of participation:“True, youth cannot benefit from participation if they do not attend… [but] merely being there is not what makes real improvements in youth outcomes   [B]eing engaged enables youth to grow”(p. 20) .  \nHaving youth return day after day and keeping them engaged are interrelated challenges for OST programs. Many afterschool programs are opt-in environments; older youth in particular often can choose whether or not to attend (Fredricks & Simpkins, 2012) . The “dose effect” implies that routine attendance affects outcomes (Bartko, 2005; Riggs, 2006) . Scholars have noted that OST program benefits decline after attendance stops (Goerge, Cusick, Wasserman, & Gladden, 2007) . In research on schools, attendance has been used as a direct measure of participation and as an overt sign of student engagement (Lehr, Sinclair, & Christenson, 2004) . The logic is that students who show up are also engaged in the academic activities and vice versa. Attendance has also been seen as an effective way of gauging engagement in afterschool programs. Participants “vote with their feet”; they attend activities they experience as engaging (Grossman, Goldmith, Sheldon, & Arbreton, 2009) .  \nStudents’ personal interest and investment in  \nactivities thus can promote their continued attendance so that the programs can have a positive impact in their","cbCaivjUQsJMhnBR","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivjUQsJMhnBR","pdf",218780,"English","# Participation and the Temporal Arc\n## Micro temporal arcs and sustained engagement\n## The temporal arc as structured phases\n## Visualizing cycles through figure-based planning","[{\"question\":\"What problem do micro temporal arcs address in afterschool programs?\",\"answer\":\"Micro temporal arcs address the challenge of sustaining youth participation day after day, especially in opt-in settings where attendance can easily drop.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the document define participation in afterschool programming?\",\"answer\":\"Participation includes enrollment (plans to attend), attendance (being present over time), and engagement (active involvement). Micro temporal arcs affect attendance and engagement but not enrollment.\"},{\"question\":\"Why are temporal arcs helpful for creating engaging afterschool activities?\",\"answer\":\"Temporal arcs visualize long-term, goal-oriented work structured in phases, creating meaningful steps toward an end product that increases initiative, intrinsic motivation, and the need for ongoing attendance.\"}]","The Micro Temporal Arc - A Practical Planning Tool for Afterschool Student Engagement - Scarlett Eisenhauer | PDF",1792070203,23]