Updated as of 2.5.16 – all sessions are subject to change
Mon 9:00am - 10:15am
Advancing Healthy OST: Reaching New Standards
Naples 3
HEPA, Community and Family Engagement Intermediate
A national movement is underway among OST providers, intermediaries and advocates to promote healthy eating and physical activity in before school, afterschool and vacation programs and camps. Come be a part of the conversation about how we will get this done! Learn the new NAA standards and leave with strategy. We will talk and move!
Presented by: Georgia Hall, National Institute on Out-of-School Time
Mon 9:00am - 10:15am
Afterschool Leadership: Linking Programs and Success
Sanibel 3
Program and Professional Development Intermediate
What does it mean to exercise and exert leadership in out-of-school time? What does that look like, feel like and sound like? What is your role in ensuring that quality leadership is evident? This interactive session will provide a clear, operational definition of leadership while providing specific guidance on how to develop and demonstrate leadership traits that promote professional excellence and continuous quality improvement.
Presented by: Brodrick Clarke, PG County Department of Parks and Rec.
Mon 9:00am - 10:15am
Creating Partnerships That Support Student Success
Tallahassee 3
Program and Professional Development Intermediate
Partnership and communication are essential elements to creating learning environments that support student success. In this session, participants will learn about leveraging communication structures and partnerships to help drive programming and develop linkages to the common core and grade level expectations. The session will use current research and present practical tools that programs can use to implement the strategies covered and practiced in the session.
Presented by: Kenneth Anthony, Connecticut After School Network; Tracy Bennett, THINK Together; Suzette Harvey, Prime Time Palm Beach County
Mon 9:00am - 10:15am
Developing Savvy Community Partners
Sanibel 1
Program and Professional Development Advanced
Let’s move beyond using data for compliance! In this session, we show how Denver Public Schools helps more than 300 afterschool organizations to use student data to improve and expand their programming. Participants will discuss specific strategies for engaging and educating your providers and create an action plan to implement back home.
Katherine Plog-Martinez, Denver Public Schools & Denver Afterschool Alliance; Daniel Read, Denver Public Schools
Mon 9:00am - 10:15am
Developing Youth Skills for Global Readiness
Miami 1
Developing High Quality and Innovative Programs Intermediate
Explore and boost your program impact. P21 and Asia Society team up to share 21st century global readiness outcomes for youth and provide practical strategies to intentionally plan hands-on activities around global readiness. Participants will share their own strategies and come away with a host of ready to use resources from the field.
Heather Loewecke, Senior Program Manager, Asia Society; Helen Soule, Partnership for 21st Century Learning
Mon 9:00am - 10:15am
Eight Habits of Highly Effective Afterschool Leaders
Sarasota 1
Program and Professional Development Intermediate
How can you be more effective at leading others in the afterschool profession? Attend this session and explore the traits, passions and habits required to be a highly effective afterschool leader. These eight habits are essential for afterschool professionals in leadership roles leading kids, mentoring colleagues or supervising staff. Come investigate these powerful elements and learn practical approaches to enhance these traits and transform yourself and others into extraordinary afterschool leaders.
Mike Ashcraft, Children's Choice
Mon 9:00am - 10:15am
Engage and Empower: The First Tee DRIVE!
Miami 3
HEPA, Community and Family Engagement Intermediate
The First Tee DRIVE (Develops Rewarding, Inspiring Values for Everyone) program is designed to provide fun, engaging experiences incorporating basic golf skills to play games and sports with a focus on development of behaviors associated with The First Tee’s Nine Core Values.
Benna Cail, The First Tee
Mon 9:00am - 10:15am
Engaging Youth in Fiery Conversations
Gainesville
Youth Engagement Intermediate
Ferguson. "Redskins." Mandatory voter registration ID cards. They're the topics that you just know could cause conflict—but do they really have to lead to physical and verbal drama? These are called Fiery Conversations—and for a reason! Come to this heated, but also healthy, dialogue focused session to learn how to facilitate multiple points of view with young people. You'll learn not one, but five different ways to facilitate the Fiery Conversations and ensure that everyone can speak their minds…and agree to disagree.
Eric Rowles, CEO and President, Leading To Change
Mon 9:00am - 10:15am
Every Picture Tells Their Story
Sun 2
Developing High Quality and Innovative Programs Intermediate
WRiTE BRAiN BOOKS are richly illustrated, textless books that inspire kids of all ages to become published authors of their own storybooks, each receiving published, hardcover copies of their self-authored, original tales! Join us to find out exactly how our innovative program will serve and surprise your school and organization in all learning communities.
Julia Gabor and Meredith Scott Lynn, WRiTE BRAiN BOOKS
Mon 9:00am - 10:15am
How To Get Your Happy Back: Throw It Out There!
Tallahassee 1
Super People. Super Powers Advanced
At some point in your nonprofit career, you will be assailed with self-doubt, crippled by fear, plagued with worry. Maybe, even, the swamp people and the muckrakers have tried to drag you down. Yet you are the leader. You're the one with charisma. You're the one with vision. The passion. The knowing it rests all on your shoulders. Come discover how to get it all done and still make it out alive.
Donna Dwyer, My Place Teen Center
Mon 9:00am - 10:15am
Inspiring Continued Learning Beyond the Bell
Sarasota 3
Developing High Quality and Innovative Programs Advanced
Come explore how Orange County, Florida’s award winning After School Zone helps middle school youth excel academically through its Award-Winning Young Entrepreneur’s Shark Tank and Summer Climb Reading Literacy Programs. In this session, you will receive program resources and a hands-on learning experience to keep your youth coming back for more!
Kelvin Curry, Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Florida; Cory Johns, YMCA of Central Florida; Lasheena Williams, Orange County Government
Mon 9:00am - 10:15am
Integrate SEL Into Everything You Do!
Sarasota 2
Youth Engagement Intermediate
Children need intentional instruction to learn social and emotional competencies to interact with others, foster meaningful learning and feel connected. Social Emotional Learning (SEL) helps children to seek help when they need it, manage their own emotions and problem solve in difficult situations. In this session, participants will learn strategies for including SEL in everything they do.
Katy Cortelyou, Center for the Collaborative Classroom
Mon 9:00am - 10:15am
LET US Play: Principles to Get ALL Children Active
Sanibel 2
HEPA, Community and Family Engagement Beginner
The LET-US-Play principles: removing lines, eliminating elimination, reducing team size, identifying uninvolved staff/children and modifying space, equipment and rules of games help providers achieve the NAA HEPA standards. Attendees will evaluate traditional games and apply these principles through experiential game play. LET-US-Play resources are freely available at p2yp.org.
Daniel Hatcher, Alliance for a Healthier Generation; Robert Weaver, University of South Carolina
Mon 9:00am - 10:15am
Makey Makey STEM Education Kit to Teach WOW!
Sun 6
Developing High Quality and Innovative Programs Intermediate
Come to this fun, hands-on workshop to learn how to teach art, engineering and everything in between using a simple Invention Kit for Beginners or Experts. It’s STEM education like you’ve never seen it before. Featured in TED talks!
Tom Heck, MakeyMakey.com
Mon 9:00am - 10:15am
MISSION POSSIBLE! Youth Driven Leadership
Tallahassee 2
Youth Engagement Intermediate
Learn how a veteran Site Director turned her schoolage program from mayhem to magical by listening, learning and teaching youth to LEAD! You will gain practical tips and tools for immediate use. You too can increase the engagement of youth and experience magic through youth driven leadership in your program!
Sylvia Benoit and Anne Leonardi, Champions-Knowledge Universe
Mon 9:00am - 10:15am
Nourish Minds: Serving Healthy Meals at Your Program
Miami 2
HEPA, Community and Family Engagement Intermediate
Afterschool and summer learning programs play important roles in preventing childhood obesity by encouraging healthy lifestyles for young people. Discover how to leverage partnerships with schools and community organizations to provide students with healthy meals and how to apply for federal funds. The session will highlight examples of successful programs, discuss how to incorporate important partners and provide key resources for creating healthy menus.
Signe Anderson, , Food Research and Action Center; Alexis Steines, Afterschool Alliance
Mon 9:00am - 10:15am
Permission to Move: Amaze Kids of Any Age!
Captiva 1
HEPA, Community and Family Engagement Intermediate
This session will show how activity leaders can use low-organized games to build student motor skills and improve fitness levels, while teaching fundamental nutrition, fitness and health concepts. These energetic and motivating physical activities and lesson plans teach and reinforce wellness concepts while being fun - your kids will love these activities!
Jabet Wheeler, Focused Fitness
Mon 9:00am - 10:15am
Rapid Project Based STEM Learning
Sun 3
Developing High Quality and Innovative Programs Beginner
Rapid project based learning brings together all the elements to actively engage a learner in STEM application and thinking. Experience how to grow creativity, curiosity, collaboration and critical thinking as they come together in simple, hands-on projects tackled in a quick open-ended situation utilizing STEM thinking.
Johnny Wells, Destination Imagination, Inc.
Mon 9:00am - 10:15am
STEM Partnerships With Science Centers
Destin
Developing High Quality and Innovative Programs Advanced
Looking to improve your STEM programming? Partnerships with science centers and museums can bring a wealth of resources. But, authentic and substantive partnerships can be tricky! Where do you start? How do you structure and sustain them? Hear directly from science centers on their perspective and experiences partnering with afterschool providers—and bring your questions!
Melissa Ballard, Afterschool Alliance; Tara Cox, The Franklin Institute; Laura Herszenhorn and, Katie Levedahl, California Academy of Sciences; Heather Norton, Orlando Science Center; Samantha Thorstensen, Florida Afterschool Network; Janet White, Museum of Science & Industry (Tampa)
Mon 9:00am - 10:15am
Strategies for Aggression Reduction and Bullying Prevention
Naples 2
Program and Professional Development Intermediate
Responses to bullying such as “Words can’t hurt you,” or “Ignore it”, simply do not work and are not fair to children. This session is an introduction to a practical, research-based rubric approach that is applicable to all kids. Participants will learn how to define bullying and how to support victims, aggressors and witnesses in your program.
Elizabeth Kennedy, Burr Community Afterschool Program, Inc.
Mon 9:00am - 10:15am
Summer Slide Solution: A Recipe for Success!
Daytona
Developing High Quality and Innovative Programs Beginner
Research shows an integrated approach to reading that includes access to lots of content-rich, age-appropriate literacy materials, combined with aligned activities, effectively addresses the summer loss of learning typical among 80 percent of disadvantaged children. This skill-building, interactive session will give you the tools to develop a summer learning program that shows impact on reading abilities in children, presenting you with an inexpensive ''recipe'' that integrates reading through STEAM into your existing summer activities.
Julie Rodriguez, Reading Is Fundamental
Mon 9:00am - 10:15am
Theory to Practice: Reflection in Youth Work
Naples 1
Program and Professional Development Advanced
Establishing a reflective practice is personally and professionally challenging! Reflection takes time (don’t have it) and commitment (already stretched thin). Yet we know that thinking together about our work is critical to improving staff performance and programming quality. How do managers encourage reflective practice in staff? This session features a series of reflection tools (created for the National AfterSchool Matters Practitioner Fellowship) and reveals the one “super skill” needed for implementation.
Emily Holder, Saint Paul Public Schools
Mon 1:45pm - 3:00pm
Beyond Race: Tools to Teach Social Justice
Gainesville
Youth Engagement Intermediate
In this powerful session, practitioners will be exposed to the various layers of identity that millennial students claim in their diverse worlds, and how afterschool providers can understand and support some of the most pertinent needs facing today’s student. Fast-paced and hands-on, this presentation is specifically designed for individuals that are currently or plan to work directly with students and ready to go "deeper" with exploring race, culture, privilege and class in today's settings.
Eric Rowles, Leading To Change
Mon 1:45pm - 3:00pm
Bringing Youth Development Outcomes to Life
Sarasota 2
Youth Engagement Intermediate
Increase your intentionality with simple program practices that can have big impact on youth engagement. In this session, participants will learn and co-design asset-based approaches to everyday program life that help young people meet aspects-of-identity and aspects-of-ability that are key to positive youth development.
Shavon Campbell and Peter Guttmacher DC Trust for Youth
Mon 1:45pm - 3:00pm
Crazy 8s Club: Help Kids Get Fired Up About Math!
Sun 2
Developing High Quality and Innovative Programs Beginner
Crazy 8s is a hands-on math club tailor-made for the high-energy afterschool environment. With awesome activities like Glow-in-the-Dark Geometry and Toilet Paper Olympics, Crazy 8s helps kids learn to love numbers and build confidence in their math skills. Bedtime Math Foundation provides free Crazy 8s club kits, including full directions and most of the materials needed to run eight weekly club sessions for 10-20 kids (grades K-2 or 3-5.) The afterschool program provides an enthusiastic coach and a few additional supplies. Join us to get hands-on experience running Crazy 8s activities and learn how to implement a great Crazy 8s club!
Andi Howard-Rein and Diana Pecina Bedtime Math Foundation
Mon 1:45pm - 3:00pm
Effective Use of SEL Assessment: A National Effort
Daytona
Developing High Quality and Innovative Programs Intermediate
To begin addressing one of our biggest social challenges—the achievement gap—the YMCA of the USA has implemented an afterschool program through local YMCAs that aims to improve academic performance by helping high-need students’ develop strong social emotional skills. Along with our partners from the Devereux Center for Resilient Children, we will share how we the use of the Devereux Student Strengths Assessment (DESSA) to measure, improve and develop the social emotional skills of the participants in our programs. Hear from national and local community YMCA staff and learn tips for making the most of your SEL efforts.
Jennifer Fleming, Devereux Center for Resilient Children; Maria Guzmán, YMCA of the USA
Mon 1:45pm - 3:00pm
Family Science Nights: Fun for the Whole Family!
Naples 3
Program and Professional Development Beginner
A Family Science Night can be a powerful and distinctive way to make a positive impact on children and families in a fun and engaging learning environment by highlighting the importance of STEM education; facilitating active parent support in their child’s learning and creating engaging out-of-school science experiences that inspire youth towards future science careers. Specifically, we will model a Family Science Night experience and share organizational tools and strategies to increase family science participation. All participants will discuss and receive ideas for activities, resources and implementation of best practices for successfully engaging families in a Family Science Night environment.