Building Partnerships That Last 10:00am-11:30am PST $15 per person Featured Speaker: Tia Quinn, Founder & CEO, BOOST Collaborative. San Diego, CA There is tremendous power in establishing partnerships between schools, expanded learning programs, and local community organizations. Community partners can make a huge impact on students and your program while meeting the needs of recruiting […]

How do you show up for yourself and your team? In this interactive session, we will determine what it means to be an after school/expanded learning professional, how we want to brand ourselves in the workplace and discuss promising practices to be accountable as a leader. ULA, MLA, DS, E, M, H Featured Speaker: Tia Quinn, […]

Create new possibilities in your organization and reinvent what the experience at work could be.  Learn the set of 4 simple, interconnected principles that are the foundation of FISH- Play, Be There, Make Their Day, and Choose Your Attitude!  Join this interactive, hands-on workshop, and learn to motivate your team, increase engagement, and how to […]

There is a S.P.A.R.K. within every human-being, regardless of their circumstances, that cannot be damaged. This SPARK is the birthplace of resilience, well-being, commonsense, intelligence, solutions, creativity and innovation. This presentation will explore how through a simple understanding of the mind, innate resilience is uncovered, and stress resistance needed to overcome trauma is naturally formed. […]

Creative youth development (CYD) is a new term for a longstanding theory of practice that integrates arts and cultural education with positive youth development principles. In the first part of this session, attendees will learn about the national movement to coalesce the field, current research (including on how CYD programs can innovate through the current […]

STEMulate your Afterschool Program! Featured Speakers: Jason Lindsey, aka “Mr. Science,” Hooked on Science, STEM Certified Educator, Science Multimedia Journalist, and Digital Meteorologist, Paducah, KY: Bill Albert, CEO & Founder, STEMfinity, Boise, ID Curious about implementing interactive, hands-on STEAM activities to engage your students? Join Jason Lindsey (aka Mr. Science) with Hooked on Science and Bill Albert with STEMfinity for an […]