Afterschool Webinars

As part of the Afterschool for All Challenge, we’re asking afterschool advocates from around the country to help us achieve our goal of setting up meetings with all 435 congressional district offices on May 22, 2014. To help you understand the issues related to afterschool—and some of the policy challenges that could affect your program during the next year—this webinar will introduce you to the basics of afterschool policy.

In communities across the country, afterschool programs are facing an uncertain financial future and a rocky economic climate. Our nation’s leaders need to hear what’s happening in their districtsboth the struggles and the amazing success stories of the kids whose lives are impacted by afterschool programs every day.

Youth work is a sacred opportunity to make a significant difference in the lives of children and youth. Join us for an exciting webinar featuring authors from the recent volume The Heartbeat of the Youth Development Field: Professional Journeys of Growth, Connection, and Transformation.

Summer learning programs offer invaluable spaces to engage youth in learning and development during the months when many students lose ground. Join us for a conversation with Pittsburgh Public Schools and Allegheny Partners for Out-of-School Time (APOST), one of the district-intermediary partnerships featured in the Summer Learning Project who participated in the study that informed the creation of the Toolkit. 

Join the National Summer Learning Association and the Afterschool Alliance for a webinar featuring The Wallace Foundation’s newly released “Summer Learning Recruitment Guide,” a guide based on the experiences of five large urban school districts and their community partners that recruited thousands of children for voluntary summer learning programs. 

This webinar will introduce the afterschool and summer learning field to the Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Standards in Out of School Time, the first-ever comprehensive national nutrition and physical activity standards for K-12 out-of-school programs, and Healthy Kids Out of School, an initiative that offers resources to provide healthy foods and increase physical activity. 

In this webinar, guest speakers representing three successful afterschool programs will share their experiences in developing and sustaining partnerships with STEM-rich institutions to improve participant impacts and outcomes. 

The webinar explains how the Afterschool Alliance is supporting STEM after school through field-building, policy and advocacy, and research. The Afterschool Alliance team guides you through an interactive virtual tour of website resources and an overview of recent and upcoming STEM publications for the afterschool field.

The Federal Education law, ESSA, is currently in its first full year of implementation. Schools are looking for ways to encourage stakeholder engagement, identify resources, devise transparent reporting and prepare for well-rounded student success. Join us for a great webinar to learn how advocates are building bridges between schools and out-of-school time programs and discuss how you too can help the field to prepare for - and engage in - these important conversations.