Youth Today
All posts tagged "after school"
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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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3.9KGuest Opinion EssayHow Closing My Competency-based School Led to Learning What Works
I closed the doors to Missouri’s first competency-based high school after just three years. Our school, based in St. Louis and on...
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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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4.2KNews5 NY Award-winning After-school Leaders Spill Their Secrets
Five of New York’s after-school educators are being honored today by the Partnership for After School Education at its 25th Anniversary PASEsetter...
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3.1KNewsActive Shooter Prep for After-school: What to Do, What to Avoid, According to Experts
How do you prepare your youth program to respond to a gun-wielding intruder? Youth programs and schools are anxiously asking themselves this...
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10.7KBook ReviewsThe Growing Out-of-school Time Field Past, Present, and Future
“The Growing Out-of-School Time Field: Past, Present, and Future” is, above all else, an attempt to unite the out-of-school time (OST) field,...
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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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2.5KNewsDon’t Fear Evaluations, Says Operation Shoestring Head in Mississippi
Robert Langford is executive director of Operation Shoestring in Jackson, Mississippi. It offers after-school and summer programs plus offers services directly to...
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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...
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3.8KNewsChild Care Gains Funds in Congress Budget Deal; Outlook Good for After-school Programs
Children and youth could see some gains under a bill that passed Congress early this morning, funding the government through March 23....
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1.9KNewsYouth Workers Learn to Navigate in Turbulent Times
“Someone is going to come to your house in the middle of the night and take your parents, and you will be...
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2.5KGrantsAfter School Digital Learning Center Program Grants
Subject: Education, After School, Disadvantaged Youth Deadline: Ongoing
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4.8KNewsAfter-school, Mentoring Just the Start of How University of Tulsa Works with Nearby Families
The Tulsa Girls’ Math Circle is just one of several University of Tulsa’s community engagement programs that reach out to youth. The...
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4.0KNewsCompton Jr. Posse Fights Gang Membership on Horseback
Since local violence peaked in the 1990s, the Compton neighborhood has battled gang culture and worked to lower its high crime rates....
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1.8KNews‘The Students Are More Challenging, Stemming from Trauma’
Marisela Montoya is the director of education for Foundation Communities, a nonprofit affordable housing organization in Austin, Texas.
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2.6KGuest Opinion EssayTransitioning Back to School and After-school Programs After a Mental Health Crisis
It happens frequently. A kid returns to school or other activities after a two-week absence because of a psychiatric hospital stay.
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4.0KNewsMiddle-school Girls Learn to Lead Via Improv After-school Program
Actress Riti Sachdeva stands before a group of 11- and 12-year-old girls and whips out a direction.
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1.8KNewsThis Youth Worker in DACA Fears for His Future As He Helps Students in Similar Situation
As an undocumented student, David Blancas had to push hard to shape his future. He couldn’t drive without fear of being stopped....
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2.1KNewsBoys & Girls Clubs’ Website for Kids Seeks to Bridge Digital Divide
When Facebook rolled out a messaging application for elementary school kids last fall it made big news. The Boys & Girls Clubs...
