Innovative Learning Solutions

Are you finding it more challenging than ever to provide leadership to your sites? This seminar will help you maintain and continue to make program improvements while weathering cost-cutting and new requirements. Join afterschool professionals from all over Tucson who are tackling the same issue.
 
Sponsored by the Sonoran Alliance for Youth
 
When:
Friday, August 27 and Saturday, August 28, 2010
9:00 am – 5:00 pm
 
Where:
Hilton Tucson East
7600 E Broadway
Tucson, AZ 85710
 
Who should attend?
• New to the field Directors
• Experienced Directors
• Afterschool Coordinators
 
Cost:  $250 and includes breakfast, lunch and materials
 
What:
This training will focus on the administrative components of a quality afterschool program. Included will be effective systems to manage fiscal resources and administrative policies, evaluation and outcomes, workplace issues, strategies for recruitment and retention, staff development and training, ideas for building a family-responsive program, building a “learning organization,” leadership and management styles, and working collaboratively with schools and communities.
 
Goals:
• Recognize and address the unique context and components of an effective OST program
• Acquire skills and strategies for improving leadership and teamwork
• Learn strategies to support program improvement and development within your system
 
Topics Covered:
• Creating a Learning Organization
• Systems thinking
• How Do You Lead/Manage within your program?
• Supervisor competencies
• Situational Leadership
• How does your system, its policies/procedures, impact your program delivery?
• Building Strong Staff      
• Self-assessment
 
Lodging: Hilton Tucson East Rooms can be purchased for $69 plus tax if reserved ahead
 
Space is very limited so register online NOW! Registration ends when the seminar is sold out or July 30, whichever occurs first.
Click here to register: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/3QMXR5V
 
About the presenters:
The presenters for this session work with the National Institute on Out-of-School Time (NIOST). For more than two decades, NIOST has been the national leader in providing highly interactive, research based training for directors and staff, school administrators, community leaders, and others committed to providing high quality afterschool programs for children and youth.
 
Ellen Clippinger, MS Ed, is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of AYS, Inc., a not-for-profit youth-serving agency operating over 50 programs in a four-county area in the Indianapolis community. Ellen has been instrumental in piloting various types of programs to meet the needs of working parents-early childhood programs housed in school settings, wrap-around kindergarten programs within the school, as well as winter and spring breaks and summer camps. A summer camp devoted to arts education with a culminating final performance by the children and youth from the camp is now in its fifth season.
 
Lisa Rice, founder and director of Innovative Learning Solutions, has worked in all sectors of the afterschool field since 1984; public schools, universities, child care centers and nonprofit organizations. Lisa is known for her ability to work closely with program directors and staff to create training that specifically meets the program’s needs. She is able to facilitate long-range strategic planning retreats and consults with program leaders, boards and policymakers to build local, state and national systems that support high quality afterschool programs.
 
Space is very limited so register online NOW! Click here to register: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/3QMXR5V
 
Please call Marie Benson at 520-749-0147 or Lisa Rice at 520-982-4032 if you have any questions.