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Do you struggle to keep your middle school students engaged, focused, and on task in activities? Students are undergoing complex physical, emotional, and cognitive changes. For many youth, the middle school years are a wild ride, filled with insecurity, peer pressure, awkwardness, and world-rocking transitions. Learn why these years are challenging for youth workers and […]

Our students are forging their identities in a time of racial reckoning. We will read true, teen-written stories that serve as case studies and guides for how educators can continuously improve positive youth racial identity formation by creating justice-focused classrooms and schools. We will review the difference between race, racism, and internalized racism, as well […]

Even with proactive and positive behavior management practices in place, conflict is bound to arise when working with youth. The ability to intervene in and resolve conflict effectively is critical to maintaining after-school spaces that are physically, mentally, and emotionally safe and empowering for youth participants. In this session, Youth Development Workers will explore the […]

Engaging families is a practice critical to the success of the students in your program! In this workshop, participants will learn strategies for meaningfully engaging families at their program site. Featured strategies will include creating a welcoming environment, building relationships with families, communicating with families through a family newsletter, and hosting family learning nights. Participants […]

Participants will be introduced to key skills on Identifying the inequitable treatment of young black boys and girls in America and discussing new instructional approaches and empathetic practices to engage students of color School-Age Child Care training regulations satisfied: 3 Please note that active participation during the session is required in order to receive letters of […]

Looking to support learners in planning, building, and testing their own designs? Join us to explore STEM facilitation techniques and activities focused on the engineering design process! This session will feature the Spaghetti Marshmallow Design Challenge and is led by staff from the New York Hall of Science.   School-Age Child Care training regulations satisfied: 3 […]

Dear Directors, We are thrilled to be hosting our third convening of the 2022-2023 school year. We hope to provide the time and space to allow for you all to guide conversations around important areas of after-school work, share strategies with one another, and allow for your experiences to speak for themselves and support one […]

The number, consistency, and intensity of positive relationships in young people’s lives are linked with a range of positive academic, social, and emotional outcomes. This workshop will evaluate the factors that lead to and best practices for nurturing sustainable, positive relationships with students and explore how communication directly affects student behavior. Using the Search Institute’s […]

According to the 2019 National School Climate Survey, 84% of trans students felt unsafe at school because of their gender. Compounded with issues of racism, transgender youth of color are more likely to subjected to racial discrimination than their cisgender peers. In this session, we will read a true, teen-written story about coming out as […]

Every member of a school’s faculty and staff brings their implicit bias to their work with students. The most effective educators name and interrogate those biases, including confronting how they impact students, and actively work toward breaking them. The best way of breaking our natural impulse to generalize about people is to get to know […]

Activities in this workshop include a brief overview of an Individualized Education Plan (IEP), the types of disability classifications, learning styles, and strategies that enhance an inclusive environment. We’ll also cover how to support special needs youth in after-school and explore what programmatic strategies can be utilized to better serve this population. School-Age Child Care […]

Differently abled students often face discrimination in the very schools meant to encourage and protect them. In this session, we will read true teen-written stories about being differently abled and maneuvering a world that considers that a flaw. We will review key terms like disabled, differently abled, neurodiversity, and ableism, as well as how education […]