Virtual PD

NAA offers a variety of opportunities for professional development through meaningful content, conversations, and connections. These opportunities are designed to strengthen the afterschool workforce and youth program quality by ensuring afterschool professionals and leaders are equipped to support young people, families, and communities.

Kelsea Rounds

Kelsea Rounds

Laura Scheiber, Ph.D., New Media Arts Program Director, Educational Video Center, offers insight on how using the Afterschool Tech Toolkit helped her program support a vision for digital learning and improve equity during out-of-school time.

Thursday, 06 December 2018 00:00

Afterschool Guide to Homework Systems

The NAA Afterschool Guide to Homework Systems provides afterschool professionals with guidelines for establishing and managing a homework system that is geared toward the students, families and teachers supported by the program.

Thursday, 29 November 2018 00:00

Ed Tech Market Summit

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MARCH 19, 2019

A Unique Opportunity to:

  • Learn current efforts to bring educational technology to the afterschool market
  • Meet NAA leadership and more than 2,000 afterschool professionals
  • Obtain the research on EdTech products in afterschool programs

REGISTER

Registrants will be invoiced $295 for attendance.

Interested in staying coming in the night before, please feel free to book your hotel room through our conference registration platform here.


THE AFTERSCHOOL TECH TOOLKIT

Developed in close partnership with educators and afterschool professionals and with support from Google, the National AfterSchool Association’s Afterschool Tech Toolkit empowers afterschool professionals with resources and hands-on training to give students access to meaningful digital learning during outside of school hours. We are building an environment that supports the expansion and use of educational technology tools and digital learning in afterschool programs and we invite you to be a part of this work.


PLENARY SESSION SPEAKER

JaimeCasap HeadshotJaime Casap is the Global Education Evangelist at Google, Inc. Jaime evangelizes the power and potential of the web, technology, and Google tools as enabling and supporting capabilities in pursuit of creating powerful learning models. Jaime works with educational organizations around the world, helping them find ways to continuously improve the quality of education by utilizing and enabling technology capabilities.


ED TECH MARKET SUMMIT SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

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Contact Carole Berke at carole@caroleberkeassociates.com if you have any questions and to build your contacts in this dynamic and growing market!

 

 

Monday, 19 November 2018 12:44

Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor,

I read with great interest the article, "Why Millions of Teens Can't Finish Their Homework," by Alia Wong published in The Atlantic on October 30, 2018.

Wednesday, 14 November 2018 00:00

Social Media in Afterschool: Tips for Success

Research shows that those who work in education use social media more than the general public.

Thursday, 08 November 2018 00:00

Q&A with Ronald James of LA’s BEST

Ronald W. James, Director of Digital Learning, LA's BEST Afterschool Enrichment Program, offers insight on how using the Afterschool Tech Toolkit helps LA's BEST set a vision for digital learning and improve equity during out-of-school time.

Washington, DC, May 17, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The National AfterSchool Association (NAA) released today a free, online Afterschool Tech Toolkit to guide the effective integration of technology in afterschool learning programs.

Tuesday, 30 October 2018 00:00

2019 Exhibit Listing

Shouldn't your organization be listed here?

ORGANIZATION                                                                      BOOTH #
3DuxDesign 116
6crickets Inc. 216
9 Square in the Air 600
Afterschool Alliance 3A
Afterschool Coaching for Reflective Educators in STEM (ACRES) 302
American Pyrotechnics Safety & Education Foundation 410
Art of Stepping 1A
Blocks Rock! 500
Box Cars and One-Eyed Jacks 614
Box Hockey International Inc. 400
Cayen Systems 214
Cedar Fair Entertainment 412
ChildCare Education Institute 100
Click2SciencePD 408
Common Threads 12A
CommunityPass 103
Council on Accreditation 502
Darice 115
DimensionU Inc. 5A
EarthEcho International 127
Education Through Entertainment & Arts 402
Eleyo 300-301
Every Monday Matters 505
EZCare 108
EZChildTrack Childcare Management Software 202
Facebook's Engineer for the Week 110
FamilyID 129
Find Your Grind 414
First Move Chess 610
Foundations, Inc. 406
The Fund Raising School IU Lilly Family School of Philanthropy 9A
Fun Express 226
Girls on the Run International 503
Global Nomads Group 416
Hidden Spring Book Company West Promenade (Level 3)
ImpressArt 119
Jackrabbit Care 306
The Jr. NBA 616
kid-grit 4A
Kinderlime 206
The Leadership Program 8A
Learning Wrap-ups, Inc. 109
Little Medical School 602
MANGO Math 504
MindWorks Resources 208
Museum of Science - EiE 107
MySchoolBucks-Heartland School Solutions 112
National AfterSchool Association (NAA) 418
National Institute on Out-of-School Time (NIOST) 228
National Inventors Hall of Fame/Camp Invention 204
New York Road Runners 6A
New York State Network for Youth Success 7A
Nexplore 404
PCS Edventures! 114
Peachjar 218
Penn State Better Kid Care 200
Pitsco Education 102
The +/- Code 117
Reflection Sciences, Inc. 501
Right at School 101
S&S Worldwide 210
Sanford Harmony at National University 507
Sawyer 222
Scholastic 220
SchoolCare Works (Procare Software) 303
Science Action Club 307
Siemens STEM Day 118
Skillastics 305
Space Station Explorers - CASIS 111
Speed Stacks, Inc. 506
SSI Out of School 601
STEMfinity 104, 106
S.T.O.R.M. Program 105
Two by Two Character Development 304
U.S. Soccer Foundation 604, 606, 608
ULEAD 224
The Walking Classroom Institute 2A
World Robot Olympiad 10A
WRiTE BRAiN BOOKS 308-309
Wyman's Teen Outreach Program 125
You CAN Do the Rubik's Cube 123
Youth Communication 121

 

 

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Thursday, 25 October 2018 00:00

Text-Only Versions of Learning Modules

The versions of the learning modules that are linked below are text-only versions of the interactive training modules.

GoogleModules TextOnlyIcons GetStarted

GET STARTED WITH TECHNOLOGY

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GoogleModules TextOnlyIcons SharedVision

SET A SHARED VISION FOR DIGITAL LEARNING

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GoogleModules TextOnlyIcons AddressEquity

ADDRESS EQUITY THROUGH DIGITAL LEARNING

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GoogleModules TextOnlyIcons EmbedTech

EMBED TECHNOLOGY INTO YOUR CURRICULUM

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GoogleModules TextOnlyIcons AccessTech

ACCESS TECHNOLOGY AND DEVICES

LEARN MORE

GoogleModules TextOnlyIcons PromoteDigitalLearning

PROMOTE DIGITAL LEARNING IN AFTERSCHOOL

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GoogleModules TextOnlyIcons TrainStaff

TRAIN AND SUPPORT STAFF TO USE TECHNOLOGY

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Every module also has a corresponding training to help you take what you’ve read and put it into practice. Access the recorded trainings here.

 

Wednesday, 26 September 2018 00:00

Afterschool Swag/Merchandise

Those who work in afterschool programs make a difference in the lives of young people every day and that should be celebrated!

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