Afterschool Webinars

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.

Social and emotional learning (SEL) has gained popularity as a concept in recent years and there remains confusion as well as great interest in the meaning and implementation of SEL in OST settings. In this webinar, we are extremely to have Elizabeth Devaney from the Children’s Institute at University of Rochester and Deborah Moroney from American Institutes for Research joining us to talk about their new book, Social and Emotional Learning in Out-of-School Time: Foundations and Futures.  

Join the Afterschool Alliance and Forum for Youth Investment to unpack the findings from “Setting the Stage: Practical Ideas for Implementing High-Quality Afterschool Arts Programs,” which looks at how professional teaching artists, high-quality equipment, and dedicated, welcoming art spaces can make a difference for afterschool programs interested in embedding arts learning.