Afterschool Webinars

How do you create meaningful STEM experiences for students from elementary to middle to high school? In this webinar, we’ll hear from two STEM education experts and from two afterschool practitioners, the California Tinkering Afterschool Network and a statewide professional development provider, on how they differentiate instruction and staff training across the K-12 grade span.

Youth need safe spaces to discuss their thoughts, fears, and hopes and to learn how to communicate their ideas while understanding and integrating the ideas and experiences of others. In this webinar, learn from voices in the field about how they are approaching these tough but important discussions and be introduced to some of the many tools that may help you facilitate these discussions in your own program.  

As afterschool educators, we get to see first-hand how STEM excites and engages kids. However, many of us have questions about how to go beyond the short-term and help kids develop a long-term interest in STEM.This webinar is presented with our partner, Relating Research to Practice. We’ll be basing part of our discussion on their Connected Collection, Identity and Interest Development, which provides a brief overview of the current research.

Following up on our webinar last month, “Equity in Making and Tinkering,” we’re going to take a step back and examine the current research on making and tinkering for K-12 learners. Many of us have questions about the learning outcomes and goals for making and tinkering in afterschool and how educators can best facilitate these experiences. In this webinar we will discuss resources released as part of the Relating Research to Practice project.

In this webinar, communications experts from Burness Communications will discuss social media metrics and demonstrate how you can use a variety of free and low-cost tools to measure your performance on social media, enhance your digital strategy, and advance your organization’s goals.

On this webinar, researchers from CASEL will provide out-of-school time leaders and practitioners with guidance on how to integrate the various frameworks for youth competence and implement effective strategies that create supportive environments for social and emotional learning.

Election season is here – and your voice matters! As advocates, this is the perfect time for us to tell elected officials and candidates our afterschool stories. The Afterschool Alliance Election Toolkit has a variety of resources and materials that can help you think through outreach to the elected officials and candidates in your community!

Join us to learn about how afterschool and summer learning programs can use Empatico, a new, free tool to teach social-emotional skills and build empathy by connecting young people to communities and cultures that are very different from their own.

This is the first in a series of advocacy-focused webinars sponsored by the Bowne Foundation. During this 30-minute webinar, guest speakers will share how they engage parents and prepare them to be effective afterschool advocates through hands-on training and other initiatives.