Enriching Summer Programs Mean Success for All Children: How to Close the Achievement Gap Did you know that children who don’t have an enriching summer environment can lose up to 1/3 of what they learned over the past school year? Most of the children who experience this “Summer Slide” are minority children from low-income […]
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Friday, June 19 is National Summer Learning Day. Spread the word that we need to #KeepKidsLearning. For more information visit the National Summer Learning Association website.
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One-day Volunteer Opportunity, with a Hawaiian theme! The Connecticut State Department of Education is currently looking for a few good grant readers to help them evaluate grant proposals for after school programs. This is an unpaid, one-day volunteer commitment on June 30, 2015 from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Stanley Black and Decker University Conference Center in New Britain, CT. […]
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NAA Wants to Award You with a $50 Gift Card NAA, the leading national organization dedicated to the practice of afterschool wants to learn more about the capacity of the afterschool field to affect social and emotional learning (SEL). Please complete the quick survey below to help us in our efforts, and enter to win […]
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A celebration of after school programs featuring Imagine Dragons’ “Top of the World”. This video premiered at the 2015 National After-School Summit hosted at USC through the USC Schwarzenegger Institute. Watch this video on YouTube
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The deadline to vote for the 2015 NAA Board of Directors is quickly approaching. Voting closes Friday June 12th! With nine candidates running, your vote matters Connecticut! Take a few minutes today and vote for Tracey Lay. Having worked in the field for over 25 years and serving on multiple statewide boards and committees, she […]
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ANNUAL MEETING & 2015 LEGISLATIVE DEBRIEFING OF THE CONNECTICUT AFTER SCHOOL NETWORK! Wednesday, June 17th 10:30-11:30am 75 Charter Oak Avenue, Building 1, Hartford This is your network, we want to hear your ideas! Join us in an interactive discussion about how to improve social and emotional outcomes in our afterschool programs. Please RSVP by email to Rose at rdugas@ctafterschoolnetwork.org […]
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This month, a new slate of board members will be voted on for the National Afterschool Association. In the running this year is Connecticut’s own Tracey Lay. She is the Director of School Age Programs and Development Services at EDUCATION CONNECTION in Litchfield. Here is some information for you to get to know her better… […]
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We are currently accepting Request for Presenter forms for the 2015 Fall Conference in New Haven, CT. Attached you will find the RFP form and detailed information regarding the conference. Please note that we have changed the schedule to include two 45 minute sessions. Please be sure to indicate if you are able to present […]
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The state legislative session has ended for the year, and a budget was passed in the final hours. For all the details you can see the details here. Youth Service Bureaus also seem to pretty much intact. A few questions remain from some of the larger line items that include multiple programs, such as the […]
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