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All posts tagged "out-of-school time opinion"
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1.7KGuest Opinion EssayThe Remix with Karen Pittman: Caught and taught — Out-of-school time programs add social-emotional instruction
To understand how the current moment calls for more explicit, taught instruction in the out-of-school time space to complement this historically integrated...
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2.1KGuest Opinion EssayTop 10 Tips to Deepen Social-Emotional Learning in Your Virtual After-School Program and Align it to the School Day
With fewer resources and increased constraints, program facilitators and educators are now tasked with rising to the occasion of providing high-quality experiences...
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2.2KGuest Opinion EssayGet Youth Involved in Evaluation of Your Program To Shift Power, Build Their Skills
Youth Participatory Evaluation (YPE) is the involvement of young people in monitoring and evaluation practices and processes, including planning, data collection, analysis...
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2.0KGuest Opinion EssayLeverage Power of Remote Internships With These Tips
In 2013, while I was in college at the University of Arizona based in Tucson, I had the opportunity to participate in...
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2.1KGuest Opinion EssayHow Your Program Can Build Opportunities for Career-ready Youth
In Philadelphia and in cities across the country, thousands of youth are engaged in purposeful internships, summer work programs and OST programs...
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4.0KGuest Opinion EssayTinkering Afterschool Program Demonstrates Moving Beyond Binary of Adult- Versus Child-centered Education
Throughout our work in youth programs and critical educational spaces, we have witnessed how educators, mentors and facilitators committed to liberatory learning...
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2.5KGuest Opinion EssayThe Top 10 Ways To Help Kids Beat Stress In 2021
For many kids, this is all they know. Their entire lives have been defined by unrelenting, unprecedented times. Today’s kids are growing...
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1.5KGuest Opinion EssayBiden Must Integrate Developmental Relationships Into Training Plans For Young People
Making relationships a focus of federal policy is long overdue given that decades of research have shown that relationships are the critical...
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2.7KGuest Opinion EssayService Learning Makes Online Learning Meaningful and Engaging
During distance learning youth can feel disconnected from their educators, their peers and the content of what they are learning. Service learning...
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4.6KGuest Opinion EssayPositive Community Programs By Police Lead To Positive Relationships
SEVENTYFOUR/SHUTTERSTOCK Growing up in San Jose, California, I had some amazing experiences with law enforcement that I can say likely made a...
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1.7KGuest Opinion EssayOST Funders, Here’s How To Step Up: Invest In Organizations’ Capacity
DOTSHOCK/SHUTTERSTOCK (Part 2 of 2) In 2019, I wrote a chapter called “Rooted in Scarcity and Deficit: Time to Reconsider the Funding Process”...
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2.0KGuest Opinion EssayOST Providers, Pandemic Time Means Time To Build Relationships
As the world around us continues to feel like it’s spinning off its axis, one of the best things we can do...
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1.7KGuest Opinion EssayLean Into Youth Voice And Leadership To Help Our Youth Endure This Time
While schools begin the arduous task of tackling a new combination of academic summer and COVID learning slide, OST programs have an...
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1.6KGuest Opinion Essay8 Ways to Evolve Your OST Programs Online
This summer was filled with disappointments as each camp I had enrolled my daughter in — both day camp and overnight camp...
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1.5KGuest Opinion EssayHow I Helped My High School Service Club Find A Way To Keep Helping
The Helping Hawks Club members have invested their time since 2011 feeding the homeless (a major draw to the club), spending lunchtime...
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4.5KGuest Opinion EssayTeaching After-school Online? How To Effectively Support SEL
MIA STUDIO/SHUTTERSTOCK Quarantine has a very isolating effect on the world. There is a lack of social interaction, many days in pajamas...
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1.3KGuest Opinion EssayPrepare Instead Of Repair For Equity, Inclusion In OST
Equity and inclusion cannot be buzzwords that are conveniently used reactively to convey a message, apply for funding, be included for some...
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2.2KGuest Opinion EssayHow To Chart An Anti-oppression Path For Your Youth Organization
As difficult as it may seem, there is a more equitable, anti-oppression path forward for youth-centered organizations. An anti-oppression organizational orientation recognizes,...
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1.4KGuest Opinion EssayHow To Create Inclusive Space For Campers, Youth In OST Programs
The recent wildfires in California have been relentless reminders of these extraordinary times. Working for a nonprofit supporting camps and out-of-school time...
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1.1KGuest Opinion EssayHow To Supervise Your Staff During Times Of Great Change
The way youth workers do their work has shifted sharply since spring. For some, this means a shift to connecting youth and...
