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Should Everyone Get a Trophy? Should Everyone Get a Trophy?
Opinion / Partnerships and Building Relationships / Staff Leadership and Management / Storytellers / Sustainability

Should Everyone Get a Trophy?

Robin Berlinsky No Comments

When I was a kid, the winning team took home the trophy, and the MVP got the medal. That was that. When my kids were growing up, everyone got a trophy. There was no MVP because they all succeeded and did their best. I see the value of both, especially when you’re talking about young children.  There should never be losers when you work in the nonprofit sector, especially with kids, because all kids win when everyone gets the trophy.  Here’s why. This past summer, our organization formed a strate...Read More

On-Site Staff / Opinion / Program Design, Development, and Quality

Three Lessons from Practitioners in the Field of Expanded Learning

Bruno Marchesi No Comments

This past month I had the opportunity to attend the Site Coordinator Symposium by the California AfterSchool Network hosted at the historic Queen Mary ship in Long Beach. This two-and-a-half-day event hosted 500 practitioners from the field of Expanded Learning programs in California, with the majority of them being Site Coordinators from across the state. I wanted to share the three takeaways that stood out the most for me that had heart & meaning and reinforced my two-decade experience in ...Read More