Youth Today
Posts By Stell Simonton
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2.9KNewsMammoth Site in South Dakota Has All the Ingredients to Engage Kids in STEM
A resource in South Dakota straight out of the Ice Age has special potential for capturing kids’ imagination and fostering interest in...
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1.9KNewsSeminal After-school Report Marked a Pivot Point in Working with Youth, Creators Say
When Jane Quinn walked into the gleaming conference room at the Carnegie Corporation of New York in 1990, its wide bank of...
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4.8KNewsHow to Teach STEM and Have Fun With Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
When the cereal box slid down and dumped its contents in the toilet, the eighth graders cheered. They had successfully built a...
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1.9KNewsEvent Connects After-school Programs With Colleges
A college fair on Friday in New York City will be a college fair with a difference, bringing together after-school programs with...
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9.3KNewsTransportation a Barrier to After-school Programs
What if a student wants to go to an after-school program but doesn’t have a ride? It’s an issue faced by most...
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3.0KNewsHorizons Works, Plays With Low-income Kids to Close Summer Opportunity Gap
Children ran and played on a green lawn just outside the glass walls of Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School in Atlanta recently, as...
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2.6KNewsBryan Stevenson’s Message to Youth Workers: Change Narrative for Kids
At the end of April, Bryan Stevenson’s Equal Justice Institute opened a striking museum and a memorial to 4,400 victims of lynching...
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2.0KNewsTraining, Connections, Better Benefits: What Young Staffers in Youth Organizations Want
Youth-serving organizations are often staffed by young adults whose outlook and circumstances are different from that of their older colleagues. Sometimes young...
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3.1KNewsHow to Recruit, Retain Kids for Voluntary Summer Learning
Leaders of summer learning programs who are now reaching out to enroll kids often have to deal with a high no-show rate.
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3.1KNewsTulsa Groups Worked Together to Provide After-school for Kids During Teacher Strike
The Tulsa Opera, yoga teachers, magicians and first responders helped after-school providers shift into high gear to provide free, full-day activities for...
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2.6KNewsUse SEL Principles to Create Safe Schools, Aspen Institute Urges
The Aspen Institute is urging making schools safer by using social and emotional learning principles. “Safety is about the absence of violence,”...
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6.0KNewsPowerful Stories Written by Young People Offer Healing Insights, Guide Youth Workers
Desiree Moore, 28, was taken from her home by the Administration for Children’s Services in New York City when she was 17...
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2.5KNewsGeorgia Legislation to Help Child Sexual Abuse Survivors Sue Dies
Efforts to hold organizations accountable for child sexual abuse could be killed in Georgia on the last day of the state legislative...
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3.2KNewsYouth Violence Shows How Necessary After-school Is, NAA Leaders Say
When NAA President and CEO Gina Warner stepped to the podium at lunchtime Tuesday at the National Afterschool Association Convention, she had...
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3.0KNewsDespite DeVos Claim, Data Show Effectiveness of After-school Programs
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Tuesday repeated the Trump administration's claim that no data shows after-school programs to be effective.
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5.5KNewsAfter-school Professionals Find New Ideas, Resources, Messages at NAA Convention
ATLANTA — About 1,800 after-school professionals attended workshops on social and emotional learning, effective approaches to STEM, creating high-quality programs and many...
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2.7KNewsAfter-school Advocates Lobbying Congress — Again — for Funding
They’re posting on social media. They’re calling and emailing members of Congress. And after-school providers are talking to parents picking up kids,...
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2.7KNewsNJ Teens Learn Job Skills, Get Professional Development at the Nabe
Many afternoons, kids at Morristown High School in Morristown, New Jersey, walk over to Morristown Neighborhood House, affectionately known as Nabe.
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10.9KNewsAfter-school Programs on Trump’s Chopping Block Once Again
In a replay of last year, President Donald Trump proposed scrapping the 21st Century Community Learning Centers initiative, the federal funding for...
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3.7KNewsBeyond the Vending Machine: FoodCorps Reconnects Kids to the Earth
Zashe Cockett-Demings pulled out a small box of worms. She stood in front of 20 students in the outdoor courtyard of Clarkston...
