In this October Newsletter:
Michigan AfterSchool Collaborative Pre-Conference Workshop
Oct. 14, 2010
Best Western Sterling Heights, MI
A full-day workshop is planned for High School Providers at the MAC Pre-Conference. The facilitator for the day is world renowned team building and active-learning expert, Dr. Jim Cain, of Teamwork & Teamplay (www.teamworkandteamplay.com). This pre-conference will focus on recruiting, engaging and providing quality programming specifically for high school students.
Jim has been developing his ideas to meet the unique needs of older youth for over the past 30 years and is anxious to assist you in making better connections with your youth to meet their needs. He will focus his presentation on your needs and will give you practical ways to engage older youth. So come with your questions, ideas and dreams for your program and be prepared to actively participate in designing an engaging and quality program for your students.
Jim Cain received rave reviews when he was last here, so make sure you register today, the deadline to register has been extended to Tuesday, October 5th.
Lights On Afterschool
Registration is now open for the 11th annual Lights On Afterschool
on October 21, 2010. Last year over 185 registered Lights On events were held across the state of Michigan. Last chance to register (by October 5 ) to be included in a drawing to win a Super Science Kit from Discount School Supply of NASA's Space School Musical DVD (see trailer here). 30 winners will be picked.
Check out Afterschool Alliance's Event Planning Kit, which makes it easy for you to take part, and help show the important role after-school programs play in our communities, and in our nation.
New Resources
A New Self-Assessment Tool for After-School
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. It
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.
Help Positive Stories Shine Through When Education Gets the Spotlight
How many times have you wished for education to garner the type of public attention focused on other top issues like the economy and climate change? Well, now may be the chance. Over the next few weeks we will see the spotlight shine on the good – and bad – things happening in education through:
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Release of the major motion picture Waiting for Superman, a movie from the same team that catapulted climate change into the national dialogue with An Inconvenient Truth
- Lights On! Afterschool - a series of events celebrating afterschool across the country (October 21)
With the nation's attention turned to education, you can help highlight positive stories about what's working in public education by sharing your stories! Visit Facebook.com/MakeItStick and MakeItStick.org to engage in this important national conversation and showcase positive examples of organizations and individuals working across sectors to make learning stick!