Afterschool Webinars

Join us for this thought-provoking discussion about how afterschool and community partners can best work together to support the transition from high school to college.

We invite you to join us for presentations and a panel discussion with experts from Harmony SEL at National University, WINGS for Kids, and LA’s BEST sharing out insights on how to infuse social and emotional development in every aspect of organizational culture.

Deb Moroney and Jaime Singer from American Institutes for Research (AIR) will join us to talk about their resources that support the application of best practices in social and emotional learning in afterschool. Stacey Daraio from Temescal Associates and Aleah Rosario from the California School-Age will also join to discuss how the Expanded Learning 360/365 group is using AIR's Self-Reflection Tool.

Reading, writing and thinking critically are important skills students need to succeed, but during the summer, students can lose approximately two months of reading achievement. Two programs featured in a newly released issue brief will join us to talk about their work keeping their students engaged in literacy during the school year and into the summer months.

In this session, learn how the Wyoming Afterschool Alliance (WYAA) and the National Institute on Out-of-School Time (NIOST) partnered to create a statewide system of quality improvement from the ground up.

Out-of-school time programs sometimes struggle to define and measure what afterschool does, and why it matters for kids and families. Too often, programs are asked to measure outcomes that are only tangentially related to what they do, which can be frustrating for everyone. It doesn’t have to be this way!

This webinar highlights a recent study that asked expert afterschool practitioners, funders, and state education policymakers to define appropriate and feasible outcomes for youth in afterschool STEM programs. The resulting set of outcomes and indicators of learning provide a framework afterschool programs can use that will resonate with the larger STEM education community.

Come and learn all about Design Squad Latinx (DSL), an exciting bilingual (Spanish-English) initiative that engages kids ages 10-13 in the engineering design process through fun-packed, high-energy, hands-on challenges.

How do you create meaningful STEM experiences for students from elementary to middle to high school? In this webinar, we’ll hear from two STEM education experts and from two afterschool practitioners, the California Tinkering Afterschool Network and a statewide professional development provider, on how they differentiate instruction and staff training across the K-12 grade span.