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.
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Podcasts
Thank you for your interest in these podcasts from NAA! Some of the following podcasts are available to our Executive members only. If you are an Executive member, please proceed with logging in. If you aren’t, and wish to join/upgrade, please click here.
UPCOMING PODCASTS:
No upcoming podcasts at this time.
PAST PODCASTS:
Afterschool Answers Podcast Series
Welcome to “AfterSchool Answers,” an Executive-only Podcast series hosted by NAA’s President & CEO, Gina Warner. With each Podcast, you’ll gain valuable insight as we chat with some of our industry’s most knowledgeable and talented people. Each series will aim to dig deeper into various issues and topics that impact both your professional success and that of your program.
Each day, over 10 million children participate in afterschool programs. Working parents rely on these programs to keep their children learning, growing and safe during the gap hours—after the school day ends, but before parents come home from work. Parents also rely on these afterschool programs to be staffed and run by professionals who have training and expertise in working with children and youth. In a series of podcasts, NAA Executive Director Gina Warner will speak to researchers, experts, practitioners and funders about afterschool quality—what it is, how to achieve it and why its imperative.
Speaker/Event Request
Are you interested in bringing an AfterSchool expert to your program or community? If so, please fill out the form below and someone from our team will be in touch to discuss details. All events must be a minimum of 45 days from the time of submission to be considered.
Why Leaders Need to Ask for Help - And How
Here’s a simple trick for resource-constrained organizations and programs that want to get more done more effectively:
Webinar: Using Data and Systems to Measure and Improve Youth Progress
October 18, 1:00 EST | Presented by Exponent Partners
Afterschool organizations are increasingly finding that tracking and managing data is crucial to improving programs, increasing organizational efficiency, and ensuring fidelity to your program model. Funders also are increasingly asking for proof, based on results and outcomes, that your work is making an impact. These complex data requirements necessitate processes and systems that help your staff collect and analyze data without taking them away from their work with youth for too long.
Whether you are just getting started tracking data about your programs or looking to put a system in place, this webinar will cover how to formalize your processes for tracking data, use systems to analyze that data, and incorporate learnings into your programs. We’ll also hear a case study from Urban Initiatives about their data journey.
About Exponent Partners
Exponent Partners builds technology that enables education and human services organizations to measure results and drive more impact. For over 10 years, we’ve developed solutions in partnership with Salesforce.org for student data tracking, case management, youth outcomes, volunteer management, and general CRM. We focus on whole organization systems that not only help nonprofits manage programs, but also performance across fundraising, communications, and other organizational processes. As a B Corp and a Benefit Corporation, we are dedicated to our mission to make the social sector more effective.
15 Minute Webinar Series
15-Minute Webinar Series
Engaging Youth in Language & Literacy
Part I: Building Community and English Language Skills in OST
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Part II: Engaging OST Youth in Language and Literacy Through Art
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Part III: Score! Engaging OST Youth in Language and Literacy Through Sports
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Part IV: Cooking Up English Language Learning in OST
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The series is funded by the Robert Bowne Foundation and is free to all participants.
Harnessing the Power of Explanation - Talking with Schools and Families about Afterschool STEM
Relationships with families and schools are a key component to afterschool program quality, and communication among educators and with families will be key to building and reinforcing relationships.
Webinar: Effective Budgeting for Your Afterschool Program
Thursday, September 29, 1:00 EST | Presented by FMA
Effective budgeting is one of the key ways to ensure that your afterschool program is using your resources in the most strategic way and that your organization is financially sustainable into the future.
This webinar will:
- Describe a budgeting process that enlists input from across your organization
- Highlight tools that can be used by program staff and senior leaders to develop budgets in a (relatively) painless way.
- Demonstrate tools from StrongNonprofits.org, a web site developed by FMA in partnership with the Wallace Foundation to bring free resources for more effective financial management to after-school providers and the broader nonprofit sector.
This webinar is for Executive-level members only.
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Social and Emotional Learning
During the summer of 2015, The National Afterschool Association (NAA) conducted an online survey to learn more about program practices and practitioners' understanding, implementation and needs around social and emotional learning. In partnership with the American Institutes for Research (AIR), NAA analyzed the results of the survey and developed three calls to action for field leaders, funders, policymakers and other to better support the development of SEL competencies. Click here for the findings and recommendations.
Resource Print Center
Want to order multiple copies of NAA resources for your staff or for a professional development or another event? Looking to stock your resource library? Ever tried to print several copies on your small HP OfficeJet printer and run out of ink?
Our members have spoken and in response to community requests for a print solution we have partnered with mimeo.com to provide the NAA Resource Print Center – your one-stop shop for bulk printing of NAA Resources. Online ordering is easy – just click here or on the button below to browse or search resources, enter the quantity needed, add the documents to your cart, and then finish checkout. Resources will be shipped to you within a couple of days depending on selected shipping speed.
VISIT THE RESOURCE PRINT CENTER
Is there an NAA resource that you'd like to see posted in the Resource Print Center? If so, please let us know by emailing info@naaweb.org.
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