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All posts tagged "OST"
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2.0KGuest Opinion EssayWhat We Tried, What We Learned About Project Based Learning in Denver
For the past year, 13 after-school sites within Denver have been working to implement quality programming...
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How to Redefine Structured After-school Activities So Kids Will Be Engaged
Too often in out-of-school time programs, students are assigned to groups they can never leave, forced to do an activity...
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2.1KNewsResources Available for Teen Science Cafés, Which Let Kids Get Hands-on
When a group of high school students got together on a recent Tuesday evening, they ate chocolate, taste-tested different...
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3.0KNewsHands-on Learning: How Learning By Doing Can Widen World for Young People
Jason Herndon had walked past the Philadelphia Wooden Boat Factory, an old brick building in north Philadelphia, many times, thinking it looked...
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House Reinstates Some Funds for 21st Century After-school Program
Prospects for fully funding the 21st Century after-school program grew today as the House of Representatives reinstated $100 million for the program...
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1.2KNewsDiffering Bills That Fund After-school Programs Expected to Soon Go to Conference Committee
Supporters of after-school programs are closely following actions in Congress to see whether federal funding will be...
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2.4KGuest Opinion EssaySummer Youth Employment Programs Should Consider This News for Next Year
I was 15 when I had my first summer job at a snowball stand outside Baltimore. I learned how to use an...
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1.6KNewsWest Sacramento ‘Audaciously’ Creates Job, College Path for Its Youth with Kids’ Home Run
As the wealth gap grows in the United States, the job market shifts and college costs rise, how do young people make...
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2.4KNewsAfter-school Programs Work to Host, Show Off for Their Elected Officials
Would you invite elected officials to visit your youth program? Would you welcome the prospect or shake in your shoes at the...
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2.2KNewsAfter-school Programs Have Role to Play in Reducing Bigotry, NAA Says
In the wake of hate crimes that took place in Charlottesville, Virginia, adults who work with youth need to be equipped to...
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2.5KNewsSchools, After-school Programs Join to Promote Social and Emotional Learning
When school starts this fall in Tulsa, Oklahoma, teachers and after-school staff will be working together in a new way. In five...
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1.7KGuest Opinion EssayThat’s Not Fair: Integrating Social Justice-based Learning in Out-of-School Time
Just three words … three simple, yet powerful words when spoken by one of our OST program participants. “That’s not fair!” What...
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1.4KGuest Opinion EssayFor Real Change, Training for Youth Professionals Needs to Go Way Beyond ‘One And Done’
I have been developing and facilitating workshops for a wide range of youth worker audiences for nearly two decades on...
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Grants
Early Childhood Education, After-School, Mentoring, Literacy, STEM and Job Training Program Grants
Subject: Education, Afterschool, Mentoring, Literacy, STEM, Job Training | Deadline: Jan. 15, 2017
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2.3KNewsHouse Subcommittee Funds Federal After-school Program Despite Trump’s Call to Kill It
Chris Neitzey breathed a sigh of relief this week. He and other advocates of after-school and summer learning programs have been on...
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1.7KNewsSummer Learning Day Inspires Innovative Ways to Showcase Summer Learning
Young and old readers of “Charlotte’s Web” won’t soon forget the trip that Charlotte the spider and Wilbur the pig made to...
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1.1KNewsSeven Tepees Stays With Kids 7 Years to Support School Success
Twenty-two years ago, a retired juvenile court judge in San Francisco teamed up with a Native American healer to help kids get...
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1.9KNewsPeacebuilders Camp Focuses on Human Rights, Relationships
On a hot July day last year, a group of middle-school kids at a summer camp in southwest Georgia grappled with some...
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3.1KNews21st Century After-school Programs Connect Kids to Careers, Advocates Tell Congress
Colby Holmes, a recent high school graduate from the small town of New Hope, Alabama, found himself on Capitol Hill this week....
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3.5KGuest Opinion EssayEffective Financial Literacy: What Youths Need to Know, When They Need to Know It
Almost 20 percent of all young people around age 15 are not financially literate — they don’t have skills like budgeting income...
