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On-Site Staff / Partnerships and Building Relationships / Program Design, Development, and Quality

Seven Super Tools to Prevent Misbehavior

mikeashcraft 3 Comments

Super Spaces When you walk into a gymnasium, you behave differently than when you walk into a library. The environment sends cues to the brain about how you should feel and behave. Provide an environment that encourages desirable behavior. The space should say “Play with me!” in a way that clearly defines HOW to play. The way you arrange your space and what you put in your space tells children what types of behavior are expected in that space. Control the environment, not the child. ...Read More

From a Learning Disability to a Ph.D.: A Life-Changing Journey From a Learning Disability to a Ph.D.: A Life-Changing Journey
Program Design, Development, and Quality / Staff Leadership and Management / Storytellers

From a Learning Disability to a Ph.D.: A Life-Changing Journey

Sonia M. Toledo No Comments

As I opened an email titled “Congratulations! Your dissertation is approved.” I felt tears of happiness slowly running down my cheeks. I smiled, closed my eyes, and took a long, deep breath. It had been a long and difficult journey, but somehow, I felt that it was only a beginning – of a new era, the one where I officially had no reason to doubt myself. “I am a doctor now,” I thought to myself. “I did it, I proved them all wrong.” For as long as I can remember I was told that I wasn’t good enoug...Read More

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On-Site Staff / Program Design, Development, and Quality / Staff Leadership and Management

ABC’s of professional, purposeful, and powerful programming practices

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These ABC’s are philosophical foundations. They are new and powerful paradigms. Paradigms are like mental models that we all have about the way things should be done in afterschool programs. These ABC’s might challenge the paradigms or mental models that you might carry in your own mind. We challenge you to consider these shifts and the way you may think about how afterschool programs should be. Autonomy Autonomy is the ability to act independently, to be self-governing. Autonomy is ...Read More