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
Session Format
Based on participant feedback, we are emphasizing the importance of hands-on tools, practical trainings, and professional development in breakout sessions. We also hear the call for more of a focus on the Common Core, grant writing, management skills, social-emotional learning.
There are three different session formats for your presentation; it's up to you to pick what will work best for your content and presentation style:
- Workshop. These 75 minute sessions are the heart of the conference, and the bulk of learning opportunities. Please include at least 15-minutes of audience Q&A. These sessions can be hands-on trainings that need tables, lectures, discussions, or panels with up to three panelists and a moderator.
- Innovation Station Poster Presentation. Are you more a visual person? You may want to create a poster display of your project, program, or best practice. Posters are on display in the Exhibit Hall throughout the convention, with a required one-hour presentation on Tuesday, March 10 during the lunch break.
- Learning Express Presentation. These quick takeaway sessions last only 30-mintes and give participants something they can use right away in their program. It could be a website, project, or special event you hosted.
Workshop Formats
There are two different session formats offered at Convention:
- Workshop – 75 minute sessions that can be a hands-on training, discussion, lecture, or panel presentation (maximum of three panelists and a moderator for panels). At least 15-minutes of audience Q&A is required.
- Learning Express – Quick, 30-minute sessions that share ideas participants can use right away. No Q&A time required.
Workshop Strands
There are five key strands for all workshops offered at Convention:
1. Developing High Quality and Innovative Programs (Core Knowledge Competencies 1, 2, 3). Subtopics include:
a. Social Emotional Learning (SEL)
b. STEM (Science, Education, Technology, and Math)
c. Curricula and Activity Ideas
d. Developing Learning Environments
e. Supporting the Whole Child
f. Project Based Learning
2. Youth Engagement (Core Knowledge Competencies 4, 5, 6). Subtopics include:
a. Youth Voice and Choice
b. Youth Leadership
c. Youth Planning
d. Creating Community and Group Experiences
e. Interactions
f. Cooperative Learning
g. Positive Guidance strategies
h. Bullying Prevention
i. Cultural Competence
j. Inclusion
3. Healthy Eating, Physical Activity (HEPA), Community and Family Engagement (Core Knowledge Competencies 7, 8). Subtopics include:
a. NAA HEPA Standards
b. Healthy Eating Curricula, Activity Ideas, and Resources
c. Physical Activity Curricula, Activity Ideas, and Resources
d. Snack and Meals Resources
e. Creating Healthy Communities
f. Family Engagement
4. Program and Professional Development (Core Knowledge Competencies 9, 10). Subtopics include:
a. Continuous Program Improvement
b. Funding and Sustainability
c. Program Evaluation
d. Core Competencies
e. Human Resources 101
f. Staff Supervision
g. Coaching
h. Aligning with the School Day
i. Youth Recruitment Strategies
j. Program Marketing
5. Theme-Related Strand: Super People, Super Powers. Subtopics include:
a. Time Management
b. Work/Life Balance
c. Success Stories
d. Bringing Your Best Self to Work
e. Emotional Intelligence
f. Telling Your Story
g. Afterschool Heroes
Questions?
Download our Presenter FAQs for more detailed information. You can also contact Erin Leonard at leonard@collaborativecommunications.com.
Challenge
Register today - Space is limited at the Afterschool for All Challenge! Registration closes at midnight, February 17 (deadline extended!)
On Tuesday, March 10, we're teaming up with the Afterschool Alliance and afterschool professionals from around the country to meet face to face with members of Congress and urge them to support kids and families who rely on afterschool programs. Signup for the Afterschool for All Challenge and bring your powerful stories to our nation's capital to share with our federal elected officials. At the Convention, we’ll host workshops and trainings to prepare you to meet with your representative, and learn ways you can engage with your local policymakers when you return home.
By participating in the National Afterschool Association Convention and Afterschool for All Challenge, you'll have the opportunity to hear from leaders around the country who are working to provide opportunities for health and wellness in afterschool, pilot efforts for kids and afterschool staff to earn digital badges, provide STEM learning opportunities after school and much more. You'll receive training on how to be an effective advocate for afterschool and then you'll hone those advocacy skills by participating in meetings on Capitol Hill with your elected officials.
Join Us Online
Even if you can't make it to DC to meet face to face, we will need your help to amplify the message. You're the local expert on afterschool. Members of Congress need to hear from constituents like you who care about making afterschool for all a reality. In the coming months we'll be sharing everything you need to reach out from home, including sample scripts and a guide for planning a district meeting with your local Congressional office, courtesy of the Afterschool Alliance.
2014 Highlights
Last year, participants from 46 states met with their senators and representatives to talk about the many ways afterschool programs support children, families, school and communities, and to urge them to support the Afterschool for America's Children Act. Hundreds more afterschool supporters participated in the event from their own communities. As a result of these efforts, the number of co-sponsors of the Afterschool for America's Children Act more than quadrupled!
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Make plans to join us in DC today!
Schedule
NAA Convention 2022 Schedule coming soon!
Thank you to our 2020 sponsors!
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