The Lights! Camera! Learning! project is about taking a fresh look at your afterschool program and how you can best document and record those activities, opportunities, and programs that engage your children/ youth in learning in new and exciting ways.

Afterschool programs can play an important role in exposing students to meaningful learning opportunities in innovative, hands-on, and exciting ways. In doing so, effective afterschool programs play an essential role in “making learning stick.”

In the Lights! Camera! Learning! project, afterschool programs throughout Vermont are asked to create short video vignettes of their students in action and demonstrating an example of “innovative learning” as it happens in their program. Senator Patrick Leahy created the video introduction to the project setting the stage for this creative and engaging Vermont initiative. View Senator Leahy’s video introduction.

On March 25th at the Vermont Afterschool for All Legislative Day, three programs were honored as Spotlight Afterschool Programs. These programs produced winning videos- click here to view. Supporting documents are also posted so that these wonderful programs can be replicated across the state.