Afterschool Webinars

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.

Your students have big, bold ideas — let’s give them a million-dollar stage. The Mott Million Dollar Challenge is a national pitch competition for K–12 students, where kids and teens dream up solutions, tackle real-world problems, and compete for their share of $1 million in prizes. Join us to learn how it works, how to get your students involved, and to grab ready-to-use resources to spark their next great idea. Entries are due February 27, 2026 — ready, set, grow!

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.