All posts tagged "out-of-school time and afterschool"

Youth summer math program grants

GRANT FOCUS: Education, STEM Education, Math Education, Summer Learning | Amount: Up to $15,000 | Deadline: Jan. 22, 2025

youth summer learning grants: happy children raising hands outside

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Hartford, CT area summer learning program grants

GRANT FOCUS: Summer Programs/Learning, OST Learning, Child/Youth Development, Hartford, Connecticut | Amount: Up to $50,000 | Deadline: Jan. 13, 2025

museum improvement, humanities education: young students and teacher at history museum

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Museum improvement program grants

GRANT FOCUS: Museums, Education, Learning, Humanities, STEM, OST | Amount: $50,000 - $750,000 | Deadline: Nov. 15, 2024

out-of-school time, outdoor learning grant: teacher and students in backpacks out in nature

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Philadelphia out-of-school time learning access grants

GRANT FOCUS: Out-of-School Time (OST) Learning, Early Learning, Education, Philadelphia | Amount: Unspecified | Deadline: Oct. 25, 2024

education opportunity gag: Young boy with dark hait sits at desk playing with wiring on robot next to a computer monitor

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‘Opportunities,’ not poverty alone, predict later-life success for children

‘Opportunity gap’ between rich and poor children can come down to six missed chances.

educational opportunity gap: 5 young teen stand and sit playing different musical instruments together

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26-year study of early child care and youth development enrichment opportunitity gaps and educational success

The opportunity gap was a more powerful predictor of educational attainment than childhood poverty.

Healing Children of Horse Nations: Young man with dark hair, wearing black baseball cap and dark plaid shirt stands next to brown horse petting its neck.

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Healing the children of Horse Nations

Oregon’s Indian Country offers equine therapy for children leaving foster care and justice systems.

Georgia summer camp for disabled youth: A woman with tied-back brown hair wearing a red sweatshirt dances with a group of children dressed in casual clothing.

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From camper to staff: How one camp’s mission changes lives

Camp Twin Lakes provides experiences that are both medically and physically adaptive and supportive.

Tutoring Improves Attendance: Older gray-haired man with glasses in dark suit stands beside seated teen male student with red headband and dark jacket, both looking at large monitor in computer lab

Intensive tutoring is great for academics. Now there’s evidence it can boost attendance.

Students in a tutoring program show up to school on days they have tutoring.

Summer learning strategies: Group of multi-racial preteens standing close to each other outside wearing summer clothes and smiling into camera

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Guest Opinion Essay

Schools can close summer learning gaps with these 4 strategies

Can school districts capitalize on the crucial summer months and make learning more equitable?

Childcare private equity regulations: Several early primary kids dance and stretch while in a line inside pre-school classroom

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Curbing private equity’s expansion into child care

Investor-backed chains manage an estimated one in 10 child care centers in the country.

Education overhaul links kids to community spaces: young students and teacher at history museum

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Guest Opinion Essay

Q&A: Proposing an education overhaul that links kids to museums, libraries, parks, other community spaces of deep learning

Collaborative ecosystems of school-to-community instruction increasingly is a preferred path to improving kids’ learning.

post-pandemic federal afterschool funds disappear: group of young students working together on project

Some states fill the void as post-pandemic federal after-school program funds disappear

Thus far, 20 states have earmarked millions to keep afterschool programs afloat.

Child Care Research: Closeup in black and white of young boy next to window scowling into camera with face reflected in a window

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Is your state reporting child care deaths, serious injuries and abuse?

States are required to report this data by federal law, but some do not.

AI afterschool: Smiling elementary school redheaded girl in punk shirt shows off project displayed on white paper plate

Testing AI’s pluses and minuses in after-school programming

A relative handful of tech-forward afterschool programs are beginning to fully embrace AI.

San Diego region summer learning: two young girls in green shirts and white facemasks happily running with water bottles

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San Diego region summer learning program grants

GRANT FOCUS: Education, Summer Learning, OST, Disadvantaged Students, San Diego | Amount: $30,000 - $500,000 | Deadline: Jan. 9, 2024

Youth podcaster: Three people outside in lawn chairs — one black-haired preteen in all black, and one preteen with dark hair in a marine blue sweatshirt holding microphone to dark-haired adult in black overalls gesturing with hands while speaking

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Be Loud Studios turns kids into DJs, amplifying their voices across New Orleans

Kids learn how to ask questions, take risks, be brave, and accept feedback.

Post-COVID summer programs: young male student at desk shows his pyramid-shaped project

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Post-COVID summer programs didn’t boost kids academically, but may have helped anyway

Many summer programs focused on social emotional learning.

How states are using ESSER funds to strengthen high-quality OST learning: teacher with red hair teaching young Asian girl student outdoors by pointing at flowers

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How states are using ESSER funds to strengthen high-quality out-of-school time learning

A report discusses the different ways states are using ESSER funding for OST improvement.

Free summer lunch: Two young children sit cross-legged on the grass eating sandwiches.