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The BOOST Breakfast Club Blog is a curated space where bloggers from around the world contribute content on a continual basis about a variety of topics relevant to in and out-of-school time. The BOOST Breakfast Club blog is at the heart of an ongoing dialogue where expanded learning and education professionals share their personal thoughts and stories from the in and out-of-school time field. They also tell us what they ate for breakfast!
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2025 BOOST Conference Panel Sessions: BOOST Your Learning
BOOSTers! Are you ready for BOOST Conference 2025? TEAMBOOST wants to help you get ready by spotlighting this year’s Panel Sessions. Read on to learn more. The BOOST Conference Panel Sessions are designed to bring area experts in one space to dialogue, discuss, and share practices within the field. Varying perspectives from present practitioners, leaders, and youth offer unique insights to common ideas as well as challenges experienced by participants. All registered attendees are wel...Read More
BOOST Your Learning: 2025 Workshops for Capacity Builders
BOOST Conference 2025 is in a few short weeks, and TEAMBOOST is here to help you plan for your best conference experience EVER! Today, we are spotlighting BOOST 2025 Workshops with content from a Capacity Builder context. Capacity Builder content offers opportunities for discussion that empower attendees to impact program creation as well as curate intentional professional development opportunities that impact the capacity of personnel. All registered attendees are welcome to attend these worksh...Read More
Restorative Practices: Workshops to BOOST Your Learning at the 2025 BOOST Conference
Hey BOOSTers! Are you looking for BOOST Conference 2025 workshops focused on Restorative Practices? Look no further! TEAMBOOST has curated a list of incredible opportunities for you to add to your conference schedule. Let’s make this the best BOOST Conference yet! Workshops that promote Restorative Practices are designed to engage dialogue surrounding social connection, repairing harm, and restoring relationships in staff and students. May these spaces create opportunities for attendees to...Read More
2025 BOOST Conference Storyteller’s Cafe: BOOST Your Learning
BOOSTers! Are you ready for BOOST Conference 2025? TEAMBOOST wants to help you get ready by spotlighting this year’s Storyteller’s Cafe. Read on to learn more. The BOOST Storyteller’s Cafe is designed to highlight the lives of exceptional people from all walks of life who have experienced challenges and overcome them through hope and resiliency. Hear stories that inspire, uplift, and motivate you to become a change agent. You can also participate in a question-and-answer d...Read More
BOOST Your Learning: 2025 Workshops for Mid-Level Administrators
BOOST Conference 2025 is in a few short weeks, and TEAMBOOST is here to help you plan for your best conference experience EVER! Today, we are spotlighting BOOST 2025 Workshops with content from a Mid-Level Administrator context. Mid-Level Administrator content offers discussion opportunities centered in program and people development as well as spotlights on important advocacy opportunities that impact educational personnel. All registered attendees are welcome to attend these workshops. Those w...Read More
Youth Development: Workshops to BOOST Your Learning at the 2025 BOOST Conference
Hey BOOSTers! Are you looking for BOOST Conference 2025 workshops focused on Youth Development and Leadership? Look no further! TEAMBOOST has curated a list of incredible opportunities for you to add to your conference schedule. Let’s make this the best BOOST Conference yet! Workshops that promote Youth Development and Leadership are designed to offer tools, activities, and supports to attendees in order to better meet the needs of the youth they serve. From engagement strategies to addres...Read More
2025 BOOST Conference Film Festival: BOOST Your Learning
BOOSTers! Are you ready for BOOST Conference 2025? TEAMBOOST wants to help you get ready by spotlighting this year’s Film Festival movie screenings. Read on to learn more. The BOOST Film Festival features relevant media by dedicated and talented filmmakers that is sure to inspire, educate, and transform youth development professionals. Further, moderators engage attendees in post-screening discussions that unpack the content, challenge the mind, and create opportunities for futur...Read More
BOOST Your Learning: 2025 Workshops for Upper-Level Administrators
BOOST Conference 2025 is in a few short weeks, and TEAMBOOST is here to help you plan for your best conference experience EVER! Today, we are spotlighting BOOST 2025 Workshops with content from an Upper Level Administrator context. Upper-Level Administrator content offers opportunities for discussion at organizational and system levels to support program operations, vision casting, and sustainability. All registered attendees are welcome to attend these workshops. Those who are interested in loc...Read More
5 Ways to Use BOOST Cafe for Professional Development
We thought it was a good time to re-share about BOOST Cafe and how you can use it to BOOST your professional development! Since its launch, we have added some incredible new resources! Check out the FREE online learning opportunities Need resources to reconnect with yourself, look no further than the Virtual Calming Room Find FREE e-BOOST downloads to use with your staff, youth, and communities Make someone’s day and send them a BOOST E-Card Want to explore BOOST Cafe further, then fill ou...Read More
Creative Youth Development: What it Means and The Power of Youth Voice & Beliefs
Did you know that BOOST has been offering trainings, workshops, and learning communities online over the past year? Many of our past sessions are available for rewatch on our YouTube page, with new videos added regularly. We currently have over 100 free educational videos for you to enjoy! On August 5, 2020, Jeff Poulin of Creative Generation and Khalil Bleux of Agency 515 joined youth leaders from Arts Amplifying Youth to share the principles and practices of Creative Youth Development. Watch t...Read More
I Can’t Wait to be BOOSTed Again!
Even though we can’t be together at BOOST this year, we’re taking this week to celebrate our community of BOOSTers and reflect on all the learning, joy, and inspiration we’ve shared over the years. This post originally appeared on the Breakfast Club Blog on July 13, 2016. Enjoy! In March of 2003, after being a stay at home mom for almost a year, I decided it was time to rejoin the workforce. I applied for and accepted a part time line staff position with a local after school pr...Read More
Using YouTube for PD- BOOST Your Learning
Did you know we have over 100 educational videos on our YouTube page? Our digital content includes past BOOST Conference keynote speakers and general session entertainment, fun enrichment activities, as well as dozens of videos recorded from our BOOST Training and Online Learning Community. We have created a fillable YouTube PD Reflection & Action Planning Form to support your professional development and allowing you to: Reflect on your learning. Track your learning and stay accountable. Cr...Read More