Breakfast Club Blog
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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Creating Safe and Equitable Spaces for Learning
Education is experiencing unprecedented burnout from educators & students. In a world of uncertainty, how can we ensure that ALL students, regardless of race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, or socioeconomic status feel like they belong in our programs and communities and feel safe with us? How can we create safe spaces for youth to strive and thrive towards their educational goals? Participants will engage, reflect, rethink, and relearn previously held assumptions. Read More
Demystify STEM with Wonder Kits
Inspired by curiosity, Wonder Kits provide everything you need for a quality, hands-on STEM activity that anyone can facilitate. Partnering with organizations such as T-Mobile and Texas Instruments, Wonder Kits adds career exploration at any grade level. From designing your own wind-powered car to learning how to protect your brain, Wonder Kits bring creativity and fun to national standards. Learn the best tips and tricks in this engaging workshop to demystify STEM. Read More
Co-Designing: Using Racial and Gender Equity in SEL to Engage Girls
To address the growing mental health crisis for youth, especially youth of color, we need to mitigate the harm from white supremacy assumptions that are built into most SEL programs and replace these programs with wellness with social justice at its core. Girls Leadership will share their curriculum development process, based in Libratory Design, which interrupts the power dynamic of adult and youth to empower students as designers of justice-based SEL. Read More
Cultivating Partnerships for Profit
This workshop will show you how to cultivate partnerships within your community, sustain partner relationships, and collaborate with partners to apply for funding. Read More
Creative Writing for Wellness
Through dozens of hands-on activities and examples, gain an entire slate of creative writing activities that spark creativity and cultivate wellness. With over 30-years of experience in developing and leading workshops for teens and young adults, Keren and Kirsten will guide you through multi-sensory activities to explore personal stories and enhance wellbeing for yourselves and the youth you work with. Read More
Becoming a Better Mentor
Becoming a Better Mentor is for all adults looking for ways to support young people, especially people whose mentoring does not occur in programmatic contexts (i.e., mentoring that occurs naturally in community settings like neighborhoods, everyday interactions at schools, community businesses, and other environments where mentoring relationships are formed every day), and, we want to be sure it reaches as many people as possible! Read More
2 Things All Great Leaders Do Exceptionally Well
Research on leadership and the characteristics of effective leaders is plentiful. When it’s boiled down to its most basic elements, there are two things that separate the excellent from the mediocre. In this engaging, affirming, inspiring sessions, former award-winning school principal and best-selling author Pete Hall will lead participants in an exploration of how exceptional leaders a) rally the troops toward a common vision and b) connect each individual person in the pursuit of the goal. Read More
Ask the Field
Come and participate in a dialogue with the statewide technical assistance providers teams for California’s Expanded Learning programs. The CAN and ASAP teams have a combined experience of over 70 years working in, with, and for Expanded Learning programs throughout the state. From rural to urban, north to south, we have worked to engage, uplift, and amplify the talented practitioners in our field as well as illuminate the challenges that are faced. Please join us for a CANdid conversation where... Read More
A Community-Developed Vision for Youth Thriving: Nashville’s Path
Nashville After Zone Alliance, an OST intermediary system in Nashville, has advanced it’s work of holistic youth development and engaged community stakeholders, youth and their caregivers in co-creating a roadmap for youth thriving. By engaging so many voices in our vision-setting for youth, we have addressed equity and elevated voices that might not be heard otherwise. We have done this work to orient our future investments and would like to share our positive experiences with other commu... Read More
Be the Spark: Nurturing Student Inspiration
When a student is motivated to work toward a goal, it’s usually because somewhere along the line, they were inspired. This workshop will help educators nurture the spark of student inspiration that leads to motivation. We will identify tools and strategies to create a classroom environment that encourages student inspiration as we reconnect and rebuild in the coming year. Based out of the National University System, Inspire Teaching and Learning celebrates and develops inspirational educators th... Read More
Advancing a Diverse & Thriving Expanded Learning Workforce
CAN builds the capacity of the Expanded Learning workforce by developing and implementing comprehensive workforce strategies to strengthen and advance a diverse and thriving Expanded Learning workforce. This session will share some of those strategies specific to addressing workforce challenges, building and expanding upon pathways for Expanded Learning professionals into teaching, and promoting tools and resources to support a strong workforce. Read More
A Journey to Becoming an Antiracist Organization
The CAN team will share with participants the journey to not only why and how we are changing our policies and practices, but anchoring those shifts in the personal growth and exploration of our team members and partners. We will share how our work has shifted as a result and some wins and lessons we have learned along the way. This includes our shift to a Whole Child Health and Wellness framing for all of our work, expansion to how we explore and support the needs, challenges, and expertise of ... Read More