Afterschool Webinars

The past year has seen a wave of youth and student activists who have made their voices heard on a variety of topics and taken the national stage by storm. Join us for a webinar that discusses how afterschool and summer learning opportunities can provide the support and skills students want and need to raise their voices in public discourse and advocate for the issues and programs they care about.

Every year, more than 1 million Americans come together in more than 8,000 Lights On Afterschool events in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Like afterschool programs, Lights On Afterschool celebrations can be whatever you make of them; events come in all shapes and sizes, and don't have to cost a lot to be effective. Join us in this webinar to learn insights on how to use our extensive event planning tools and go over all of the basics to help you stay on track with your planning for this year's celebration.

From helping children and youth develop positive relationships to landing their first job, social and emotional skills and competencies are supporting success in school, work, and life. Join us for a conversation with The Possibility Project, Girls on the Run, and City of Denver’s Office of Children’s Affairs for a discussion of how afterschool programs and systems can integrate social and emotional learning.

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.
 

Join the National Summer Learning Association and the Afterschool Alliance for a webinar featuring The Wallace Foundation’s newly released “Summer Learning Recruitment Guide,” a guide based on the experiences of five large urban school districts and their community partners that recruited thousands of children for voluntary summer learning programs. 

President Trump’s budget proposal for FY 2019, released in February, calls for the complete elimination of 21^st Century Community Learning Center funding. These funds currently support nearly 10,000 local afterschool and summer programs serving nearly 2 million children all across the nation. The budget proposal also calls for massive cuts to a wide array of other federal funding streams that go to afterschool programs. What does this mean for your program? Your community? And, most importantly, can these budget cuts be stopped?

Environmental education inspires student to engage with and learn about the world around them. Afterschool programs have a unique opportunity to foster this exploration of the natural world, take students outside, and engage students in real-world science. Join us with Plum Landing, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and Science Action Club for a conversation on tools, curriculum, and resources on environmental education in afterschool.

The Federal Education law, ESSA, is currently in its first full year of implementation. Schools are looking for ways to encourage stakeholder engagement, identify resources, devise transparent reporting and prepare for well-rounded student success. Join us for a great webinar to learn how advocates are building bridges between schools and out-of-school time programs and discuss how you too can help the field to prepare for - and engage in - these important conversations.

Tune into Part II of this webinar series highlighting insights from the newly released book, The Growing Out-of-School Time Field: Past, Present, and Future, which delves into the ways in which the OST field has matured over the past two decades as a partner in helping children and youth reach their full potential. This webinar will feature leaders in the field discussing the roles of professional development and federal policy in the OST field, and what the future holds for the OST movement.