The National League of Cities’ Institute for Youth, Education, and Families is partnering with The Wallace Foundation to support a survey to identify the types of tools and resources that cities and afterschool providers would find most useful to expand their afterschool, summer, and expanded learning efforts.
If you have just 10 minutes, please click on the link below to take the survey:
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Child Care Day 2011
Wednesday, February 16th
Arizona State Capitol – 1700 W. Washington
ACTIVITIES*
8:00am – 9:00am – Information Room Open – Old Capitol Parlor
9:00am – 11:00am – Attend Committee Hearings
House – Health and Human Services
Senate – Public Safety and Human Services
11:00am – 12:30pm – Presentations – All will be held in the
Old Senate Chamber 3rd Floor in Old Captiol. Group Session, hear the latest on the State Budget, child care issues, and advocacy. Remarks by Invited Legislators.
12:30pm – 1:30pm – Open to meet with Legislators (Schedule in advance), drop off letters at Legislators offices.
LUNCH on your own.
1:30pm – 2:00pm – Group Introductions from Senate and House Galleries
2:00pm – Attend Committee Hearings
House – Appropriations
Senate – Health Care and Medical
Afternoon will be free to meet with your Legislators, you will need to schedule with them in advance.
Click here to find your Legislators.
*The day’s events will be fluid and flexible.
CHILD CARE DAY IS SPONSORED BY:
Arizona Child Care Association
Association for Supportive Child Care
Children’s Action Alliance
Protecting Arizona’s Family Coalition (PAFCO)
Early Care and Education Consortium
SUPPORTERS INCLUDE:
Child and Family Resources
Arizona Association for the Education of Young Children and its Affiliates
Southwest Human Development
Arizona Center for Afterschool Excellence
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The Sonoran Alliance for Youth is hosting its annual school-age/afterschool conference on January 22, 2011 at Empire High School in Vail, AZ.
say registration brochure for 2011 PIES pdf
8:45 am-1:00 pm
Want Confident Children? Give ‘em P.I.E.S.!
P = Physical: Mind-Body Link & Brain Gym, Good for Heart = Good for Brain, Physical Skills (Competencies), – Kids & Staff
I = Intellectual: Sneakin’ Standards & Autonomy, Intellectual Skills- Kids and Staff, Total Recall
E = Emotional: Intrapersonal Social Skills: CONFIDENCE, curiosity, control/autonomy, coping – Kids and Staff
S = Social: Community-Building Games, Interpersonal Social Skills, Relationships, Communication, Community, Conflict, Belonging – Kids and Staff
Extended option includes :
1:15 – 2:00 pm Working Lunch (PIZZA PIE– of course) – with your team, make an action plan for implementing PIES!
2:15 – 3:15 pm 8 Habits for All Leaders
If you work with kids, you ARE a leader
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The Global Learning in Afterschool Self-Assessment Tool is a resource created by Asia Society’s Partnership for Global Learning, developed with the New York State Afterschool Network (NYSAN) and in collaboration with afterschool partners, to assess and improve programs’ capacity to help build the global competence of youth.
The Global Learning in Afterschool Self-Assessment Tool is meant to be used in conjunction with other quality tools to help programs focus on how to create or improve the conditions necessary for successful global learning within a high-quality program.
Asia Society’s Partnership for Global Learning works to develop youth to be successful citizens, workers, and leaders by equipping them with the knowledge and skills needed for success in an increasingly interconnected world. The term global competence has emerged as a way to articulate these knowledge and capacities, and as such it represents a crucial shift in our understanding of the purpose of education in a changing world. Simply put, globally competent youth can successfully investigate the world of their immediate environment and beyond; recognize their own and others’ perspectives; communicate ideas to diverse audiences; and take action to make a difference both locally and globally. Young people everywhere – from all backgrounds – deserve the opportunity to access global learning opportunities both during and after school that help them succeed in the global economy and contribute as global citizens.
We believe that global learning is both an appropriate and relevant goal for the afterschool field. Afterschool, before-school, and summer programs in schools, community- and faith-based organizations, and other settings, are appropriate places to look at learning and communities in new ways. Moreover, afterschool professionals bring a wealth of experience in developing understanding and appreciation of diverse people and cultures. Global learning is most effective when it builds on the connections that we all have to others in our communities and to the world around us; however, global learning implies much more than exposing young people to the cultures in their communities. It requires an intentional approach to expanding horizons for youth, so as to increase the critical global knowledge and skills required for future success.
The Global Learning in Afterschool Self-Assessment Tool <http://sites.asiasociety.org/pgl2010/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/afterschool-assessment.pdf> serves as a guide for programs that wish to bolster their program design, environment, activities, and policies to build global competence in youth. For programs that are just getting started with global learning, the tool can be used as a framework for guiding preliminary discussions and to help identify areas of high-quality global learning in out-of-school time. More established programs can use the tool to measure progress to date and plot growth over time.
We welcome your feedback on the Global Learning in Afterschool Self-Assessment Tool and would be happy to discuss with you further ideas about how we might work together to advance high-quality afterschool programs that help youth become globally competent for the 21st century.
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Registration is open for the 11th annual Lights On Afterschool – October 21, 2010!
The U.S. Department of Education and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention have signed up for the nation’s biggest afterschool celebration, and the Empire State Building has announced that it again will light up in yellow in honor of Lights On Afterschool! Take part by opening your doors to show off what is happening after school.
Register now and you could win cool giveaways from FEIT ELECTRIC. You will also get free posters and event tips and updates. Our online toolkit makes it easy to plan an event, from a talent show to a large rally. Every site registered in August will be entered in a drawing to win 100 energy-saving, long lasting, earth-friendly compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs). Give the light bulbs to your event guests, use them at your program, or let kids take them home to remind parents how your program keeps the lights on after school.
Last year, 1 million Americans celebrated Lights On Afterschool, from New Hampshire to New Mexico. We know that times are hard, and families and communities have to do more with much less. Afterschool support is more important now than ever. Let’s show the country what can – and should – happen after school.
Warm regards,
The Afterschool Alliance
PS: Here’s another green idea: use FEIT ELECTRIC CFLs as fundraisers for your program! Contact FEIT ELECTRIC directly by emailing marketing@feit.com.
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If you are concerned about the state of education in Arizona, you should attend the only Tucson forum for the candidates for Superintendent of Public Instruction. The next Superintendent will set the agenda for education in Arizona and will have the bully pulpit to lobby the legislature.
At the forum you will have the opportunity to question the candidates and hear how they will tackle funding and education issues.
Superintendent of Public Instruction Forum
Thursday, August 12, 2010
7-9 PM
Rincon/University High School’s Little Theater
(Use the entrance on 5th Street just east of Swan)
Sponsored by:
The League of Women Voters of Greater Tucson
American Association of University Women (AAUW)
The Arizona Education Network
Tucson Values Teachers
Literacy for Life Coalition
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How much do your kindergarten teacher and classmates affect the rest of your life?
Economists have generally thought that the answer was not much. Great teachers and early childhood programs can have a big short-term effect. But the impact tends to fade. By junior high and high school, children who had excellent early schooling do little better on tests than similar children who did not — which raises the demoralizing question of how much of a difference schools and teachers can make.
There has always been one major caveat, however, to the research on the fade-out effect. It was based mainly on test scores, not on a broader set of measures, like a child’s health or eventual earnings. As Raj Chetty, a Harvard economist, says: “We don’t really care about test scores. We care about adult outcomes.”
Early this year, Mr. Chetty and five other researchers set out to fill this void. They examined the life paths of almost 12,000 children who had been part of a well-known education experiment in Tennessee in the 1980s. The children are now about 30, well started on their adult lives.
On Tuesday, Mr. Chetty presented the findings — not yet peer-reviewed — at an academic conference in Cambridge, Mass. They’re fairly explosive.
Just as in other studies, the Tennessee experiment found that some teachers were able to help students learn vastly more than other teachers. And just as in other studies, the effect largely disappeared by junior high, based on test scores. Yet when Mr. Chetty and his colleagues took another look at the students in adulthood, they discovered that the legacy of kindergarten had re-emerged.
Students who had learned much more in kindergarten were more likely to go to college than students with otherwise similar backgrounds. Students who learned more were also less likely to become single parents. As adults, they were more likely to be saving for retirement. Perhaps most striking, they were earning more.
All else equal, they were making about an extra $100 a year at age 27 for every percentile they had moved up the test-score distribution over the course of kindergarten. A student who went from average to the 60th percentile — a typical jump for a 5-year-old with a good teacher — could expect to make about $1,000 more a year at age 27 than a student who remained at the average. Over time, the effect seems to grow, too.
read more…http://finance.yahoo.com/news/The-Case-for-320000-nytimes-1374672440.html?x=0
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Are you finding it more challenging than ever to provide leadership to your site/s? 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.
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:
Topics Covered:
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
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With more resources being cut from our nations’ schools and the need for STEM jobs rising, out-of-school STEM education is more important than ever. Join us at the 2010 National Conference for Science and Technology in Out of School Time and become part of a growing national network working to increase access and opportunity for all students in STEM.
Through workshops in funding trends, professional development, evaluation and assessment, research and policy, networks and systemic pathways, and curriculum and pedagogy, participants will learn about recent developments in the field of STEM education and share their unique ideas to preserve and improve STEM out-of-school programs.
The Conference is open to any and all stakeholders at the national and local levels. We welcome your viewpoint as an advocate for out-of-school science and technology programs and encourage you to represent your organization or institution.
The Conference will take place in Universal City, CA (Los Angeles) from September 22nd-24th, 2010. Register before August 23rd to receive a participation discount. Visit us at http://scienceafterschoolconference.org to register and gain access to a wide network of out-of-school STEM education stakeholders. We can’t wait to see you there!
The 2010 National Conference for Science and Technology in Out-of-School Time is hosted by the Coalition for Science After School and Project Exploration, and is presented by Time Warner Cable as part of its Connect a Million Minds Initiative.
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The Fund for the Improvement of Education (FIE), which is authorized by section 5411 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended (ESEA), supports nationally significant programs to improve the quality of elementary and secondary education at the State and local levels and help all children meet challenging academic content and academic achievement standards. The Full-Service Community Schools (FSCS) program, which is funded under FIE, encourages coordination of academic, social, and health services through partnerships among(1) public elementary and secondary schools; (2) the schools’ local educational agencies (LEAs); and (3) community-based organizations, nonprofit organizations, and other public or private entities.
Full-Service Community Schools provide comprehensive academic, social, and health services for students, students’ family members, and community members that will result in improved educational outcomes for children. For the FY 2010 competition, these services may include: high-quality early learning programs and service; remedial education, aligned with academic supports and other enrichment activities, providing students with a comprehensive academic program; family engagement, including parental involvement, parent leadership, family literacy, and parent education programs; mentoring and other youth development programs; community service and service learning opportunities; programs that provide assistance to students who have been chronically absent, truant, suspended, or expelled; job training and career counseling services; nutrition services and physical activities; primary health and dental care; activities that improve access to and use of social service programs and programs that promote family financial stability; mental health services; and adult education, including instruction of adults in English as a second language.
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Innovative Learning Solutions 