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This is the first time they have been in charge of young people and the first time they have been called“teacher.” These firsts can be drawbacks, but they also can create powerful opportunities to build staff members’capacity to engage students and enrich their lives.  \nTo shape the Scholars program into a caring afterschool environment, program leaders and I have worked with the staff to help them understand the importance of their relationships with students. Frameworks focusing on developmental assets and developmental relationships have helped us show our young staff how to build positive adult relationships with program participants. Other programs may be able to use some of these  \nideas to enable their own staff to foster the relationships that lead to student success.  \nContext  \nApproximately 2,500 children in grades 1 through 8 attend the Oxnard Scholars program at the district’s 20 schools. The program is voluntary; parents register their children knowing that students are expected to attend five days a week. At some schools, 100 or more families are on a waiting list for the program, which offers art, recreation, literacy, math, engineering design, and sports programming. The district partners with the city of Oxnard to offer the program with support from a state funding stream for afterschool education.  \nChallenges  \nOxnard School District is characterized by high poverty, large populations of minority students and stu-  \nGINGER SHEA is a doctoral candidate specializing in educational leadership in a joint program of California State University Channel Islands and Fresno State University. She is the manager of Special Programs and Services in Oxnard School District, California.  \ndents with limited English proficiency, and low student The Need for Professional Development achievement. The community offers limited childcare More, perhaps, than teachers, afterschool program staff resources and has one of the highest removal rates in the are poised to provide caring relationships, teach persestate for child protective services. Though the city is sur- verance, and challenge students. These are the factors I rounded by farms, housing is dense, with multiple fami- target in afterschool professional development. For the lies living in one household. first time, I feel I have made sustainable progress in help  \nIn a study of students graduating from Oxnard ing Oxnard Scholars staff connect to students—simply schools, Akhavan and colleagues (2017) found that because I have spent more time training them to build students’ self-reported success was connected to rela- relationships. In the past, training focused on content, tionships with caring adults who taught them persever- activities, and lesson delivery; most of my energy went ance and challenged them to meet into teaching pedagogy. I assumed  \nhigh expectations. Though some that afterschool program staff came  \nstudents are receiving these sup- to the job knowing how to con  \nports, there is room for improve- I assumed that afterschool nect with students. The fact is that ment. The 2016–2017 California program staff came to the some did and some did not. If staff HealthSchoolyDisKtriidsct , 2Surv017)e, ywhi(Ochxnmaerda- job knowing how to learnebut codultodnf’tacirellitatateetgorseattudactentivs,ittiehse sures school climate and reports connect with students. The activities would fall flat. 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