Afterschool Webinars

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.

In this webinar we explore the state of computing and engineering within K-12 education, and the role of afterschool as an important ally. We’ll also hear from afterschool leaders that are working to provide quality engineering and/or computing programs to youth in cities from Santa Fe to Baltimore.

All students deserve opportunities for rigorous and meaningful STEM learning, regardless race or ethnicity, culture, gender, socioeconomic status, language, or disability status. It’s not enough to just provide increased access—we must think carefully about how we design programs, choose curriculum or projects, and interact with youth to best support their success in STEM.

This webinar will focus on Title IV of ESSA and opportunities for community-school partnerships such as the Student Success and Academic Enrichment block grant, 21st Century Community Learning Centers, Full Service Community Schools, Promise Neighborhoods, and Statewide Family Engagement Centers. 

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) was signed into law by President Obama last month effectively reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act – but what does ESSA mean for afterschool and summer learning program providers?

Those of us in the out-of-school time field have long known that afterschool and summer programs can have a huge impact on youth through the development of social and emotional skills, even if we haven’t always called them by that name. Join us for a great discussion of how and why afterschool programs around the country are doubling down on the importance of SEL during which our expert presenters will help identify straightforward, cost-effective strategies for improving SEL in any program.