Celebrating Afterschool! Outdoors in the Garden State

February 8th, 2010

We’re STILL Celebrating Afterschool! Outdoors in the Garden State, with new and expanded toolkits for 2010.

New for 2010, the updated Celebrate Afterschool Toolkit will include environmental action activities that engage students as stewards of the environment.
The updated event and publicity kit will guide participants to highlight the extended learning benefits of afterschool programs—an important message for funders and policymakers.
A special section on using social media will build your skills online.

Watch for the new toolkits by early March, For a look back at last year’s activities, visit CLICK HERE

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NJSACC MINI GRANTS -

February 7th, 2010

Grants -BACK TO BASICS $$$$$$$$

NJSACC is going back to the basics this year.
There will be 10 grants of $2,500 available to school-age programs that are licensed through the Department of Children and Families Office of Licensing to help programs focus on licensing standards.
Grant funding must be used to either correct licensing issues or help to maintain licensing standards and should improve health, safety, environment and/or physical facilities.
Programs that submit a Mini-Grant Application will qualify to participate in the grant’s competitive process.
Please download all the forms below to apply.
Make sure that you carefully read all the information and fill out all the forms completely before submitting your application!

Here are the forms:

Funding provided by the NJ Department of Human Services, Division of Family Development as part of a Federal CCDF Block Grant Earmark

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We have 928 Responses for “Taking the Temperature!”

February 4th, 2010

Greetings,

NJSACC: The Network for New Jersey’s Afterschool Communities , needs your help!

We  have 928 responses!
We have almost reached our goal of 1,000 responses.
Only 2 days left to respond ! Deadline is February 4th, 2010.

You may not be able to answer all the questions- no problem .

Answer what you are able to.

There are some tricky questions, you need to prioritize  some answers!

Please help NJSACC “Take the Temperature of Afterschool” by answering our survey.
We want to hear your thoughts and ideas about how NJSACC can better serve NJ’s afterschool community.

The survey will now be available until February 4th, 2010.
So , please take a moment and complete the survey.

We would appreciate  if you would pass this along to your staff and your network.

Please encourage  your staff, families you serve  and others to answer the survey as well!

To let us know what you think!

CLICK HERE TO COMPLETE THE SURVEY

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Training: Afterschool Toolkit, Today is the last day to register!

February 3rd, 2010

Building Fun, Innovative, and Academically-Enriching Activities Using the Afterschool Training Toolkit

Learn how to support enrichment by using United States Department of Education approved research-based practices, sample lessons, video examples, and resources to provide engaging, innovative activities to students in your afterschool programs.

Trainers will demonstrate different ways to use the afterschool toolkit to:

  • promote staff development
  • support collegial learning in the following areas: literacy, math, science, arts, technology, and homework.

Training is ideal to replicate and turn-key to teachers and program staff.

Building Fun, Innovative, and Academically-Enriching Activities Using the Afterschool Training Toolkit

Presented in partnership with NJSACC : The Network for NJ’s Afterschool Communities and the NJ Department of Education.

Funding in its entirety by the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as amended by No Child Left Behind, Title IV, Part B, 21st Century Community Learning Center (21st CCLC) grant funds awarded to the New Jersey Department of Education.

Event: SEDL, Afterschool Toolkit Training

Date: Monday, February 8th, 2010

Time: 9:30 am to 12:30 pm

Cost: $10 per person

Location: Regional Enrichment & Learning Center

1371 Chews Landing Road

Laurel Springs, NJ 08021

856-232-REAL (7325)

www.realcenters.com

Space is limited to 24 participants.

Computer Stations will be available.

Click Here to Register

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MAKING SCIENCE COOL – NEW VIDEOS FROM TASC

February 3rd, 2010

MAKING SCIENCE COOL – NEW VIDEOS FROM TASC

The After-School Corporation recently released a series of short videos that make the case for doing science after school. The videos are each 1-2 minutes in length, and show kids and their group leaders engaging in lively hands-on science activities in after-school programs.

Why Do Science After School?

Engaging in science after school is not a substitute for having kids acquire basic math/science skills and knowledge at school. It’s a way to excite kids about acquiring that knowledge, to involve them in tactile, surprising, real-world applications. See the telescope build by Harlem third graders in this video:

Science Training for After-School Educators

Programs don’t need science or math experts to lead activities. Well-trained after-school educators are in some ways better prepared to model the inquiry process, given that they discover the answers to science inquiries alongside kids. See the difference training can make:

Oobleck

Oobleck is a hands-on science activity that introduces kids to inquiry, observation and states of matter. Here’s one after-school educator trying Oobleck for the first time with her kids:

Who Does Science?

At the beginning of the After-School Science PLUS curriculum, after-school educators ask kids to draw pictures of scientists. After several months of science programming, the kids do the “Who Does Science?” activity again. This time, the results are very different:

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