Learning during out-of-school time can boost academic engagement and achievement during the school day. Discover key concepts such as building a shared vision for learning, coordinating curriculum, and supporting partnerships with school-day staff.

This training will help leaders grow and aspiring leaders to develop by utilizing the 10 pillars of servant leadership to develop yourself, your staff, and your program.  The 10 pillars are listening empathy, healing, self-awareness, persuasion, conceptualization, foresight, stewardship, growth and community.

Your program can help students succeed as they transition into college, the workforce, the trades, or the military. Learn ways to provide awareness, exploration, and preparation activities that help students of all ages prepare for postsecondary learning and life.

Citizen science activities can give students opportunities to collaborate with professional scientists on real-world problems by gathering and analyzing data through hands-on research. Learn how citizen science fits with out-of- school time learning, how to select citizen science activities, and how to implement a citizen science project.

Find strategies to deliver effective civics education, including how to set the foundation for civic learning and engagement activities and best practices for student engagement. Get practical tips, tools, and examples.

Walk through ways to create and sustain an environment where students, their families, and program staff feel safe and supported. Done well, this will translate to increased engagement.

Each of these topics are embedded within the larger trainings and workshops.  If additional support is needed, we can do a deeper training on any of these topics.  We can also provide virtual coaching.

• Building a Program Team Community Asset Mapping Conducting a Needs Assessment Intentional Activity Design Marketing and Outreach
• Becoming a Leader
• Recruiting, Training and Retaining Staff
• Engaging Families
• Continuous Improvement
• Sustainability
• Integrating the Arts
• Supporting Positive Student Behavior

Constructive relationships between programs and families contribute to better results for students. Learn to forge strong links to students’ families, to involve them in all activities, and to support them in overcoming challenges.

Get knowledge and skills to help students and their family members master financial concepts so they can build financial literacy and make sound financial decisions. Learn about the many community partners and online resources available to help you deliver activities.

Use this training to help you understand why fiscal management is important and to help you set up and monitor your program’s budget. We will provide valuable tools to aid your work.

Learn why eating well, engaging in physical activity, getting enough sleep, and managing self-care can support healthy learning and living. Get strategies, standards, and tools to help you plan, design, implement, and assess activities that help students and adults practice healthy lifestyles.

Build your knowledge, skills, and understanding in ways to build students’ confidence and interest in math through positive messages and experiences that short-circuit math anxiety. Join us as we respond to math-related distress calls from students, families, and program staff.  Discover how to draw on your own life experiences in using math for hobbies, personal goals, and everyday tasks like comparison shopping.

Explore the human resources elements of recruitment, hiring, onboarding, and training staff. This treasure hunt for the right staff provides strategies to develop and manage a human resources plan that addresses typical challenges such as recruiting and retaining quality staff, and balancing educational and business administration responsibilities.

This course equips 21st CCLC practitioners with the strategies they need to build an inclusive environment, one where all students feel welcome and engaged, including students with disabilities.

Find strategies to design and plan for a 21st CCLC program, including reviewing your state’s request for proposal, gathering stakeholders, determining your needs and goals, creating a plan and budget, staffing, recruiting students, and implementing your program activities.

This training will build your capacity to plan and implement ways to help students recover from missed learning opportunities.  We will explore the use of out-of-school time and summer to support math, literacy, and social and emotional learning

Literacy is at the heart of building essential skills to prepare students to be successful in college, careers, and life. Explore a wide range of strategies for developing and reinforcing literacy skills in your program.

This workshop  provide leaders with knowledge and skills to support program management. Explore the history of project management and see how project management practices can support program success. Learn about the critical tasks involved in effective project/program management and how to initiate, plan, execute, monitor and control, and close your program. Designed based on the corporate model (PMBOK) of project management, this workshop will help you if you want to attain your PMP.

This student-directed learning strategy emphasizes active learning and allows students to explore topics that interest them. Learn how to facilitate projects, see students collaborate to take charge of learning, and help young people make a difference in their world.

• Integrating the Arts
• Supporting Positive Student Behavior

Click & Go’s are bundles of professional learning materials and job aids to help you get up to speed on any of the 13 topics listed below in an hour or less. You can download each Click & Go as a zip file or view it online. Each one includes a mini-lesson, podcasts, answers to frequently asked questions, customizable tools, and links to selected external resources.

Quality Program Quickstarters are self-paced learning modules you can do anywhere, anytime. The following modules are available:

• Building a Program Team
• Community Asset Mapping
• Conducting a Needs Assessment
• Intentional Activity Design
• Marketing and Outreach
• Becoming a Leader
• Recruiting, Training and Retaining Staff
• Engaging Families
• Continuous Improvement
• Sustainability

This training will equip practitioners with knowledge and strategies to support social and emotional learning throughout all program aspects to holistically meet student needs.

Understand the stages and areas of child development to ensure that you can support all students. Use this course to help your staff better understand milestones of development and recognize when they need to seek advice.

Expand the traditional view of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics by incorporating the arts for a more comprehensive education. Your program is a perfect setting for experiential, interdisciplinary, inquiry-based projects where creativity and collaboration mimic real-world careers that range from fashion design to space exploration.

Partnerships are key to ensuring long-term program success and sustainability. This training provides the key strategies needed to ensure mutually beneficial partnerships to support your program.

The feeling of being heard is at the heart of true student engagement. This course provides tools and tips to help you prepare program staff, capture student voice, and use your new data to implement programming that honors student choice.

In this workshop,  practitioners learn to create a safe, language-rich, culturally responsive learning environment for English learners. The course introduces strategies that promote language acquisition, build student confidence, and connect to home cultures and the school day.

Go on a quest to learn strategies for using virtual technologies and interactions. Unlock four virtual powers (technology power, equity power, relationship power, and personalization power) to help staff and students find their comfort zones to operate in three settings: in person, hybrid, and virtual.