Professional Development
NAA publishes fresh, new content every week covering a wide variety of topics related to the field of aftershool. Be sure to check in regularly.
NAA Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Standards Streamlined in Version 2.0
Tuesday, 28 August 2018 09:32Studies show that healthy, active children learn better, perform better academically and experience fewer behavioral problems.
Enrichment Management Made Easy With 6crickets
Tuesday, 28 August 2018 00:00When Helen Wang launched 6crickets.com in 2014, her goal was to help parents like herself find the best enrichment for their children during the out-of-school time hours.
Giving Youth More Voice and Choice: Simple Strategies, Significant Results
Tuesday, 21 August 2018 11:35What happens when educators and leaders give youth the opportunity to use their voices and make choices? Perrin Chick, STEM Education Specialist and ACRES Project Manager for Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance, offers her perspective.
Visual-Spatial Possibilities in Afterschool Spaces
Tuesday, 21 August 2018 10:44As a young person, I didn't feel smart in school. Each day I struggled with auditory-sequential instruction in the classroom—unable to articulate the internal frustrations that created.
Get Geared Up: Financial Planning Resources from The Wallace Foundation
Tuesday, 14 August 2018 11:07As a new school year approaches, planning ahead financially is usually in the front of every afterschool leader's mind—though finding helpful resources can sometimes be a challenge.
Diving Into the Unknown
Tuesday, 14 August 2018 11:02Running head-first into the new school year can be a stressful time for the whole family. See what Erika Petrelli, The Leadership Program's Vice President of Leadership Development, has to say about confronting the unknown and the fear of "what if."
4 Tips for Afterschool Program Cultivation
Tuesday, 07 August 2018 10:49Whether your 21st Century Community Learning Center (21CCLC) program is funded for the foreseeable future or not, it can still be a challenge to expand on current program offerings or keep lights on due to budgetary limitations.
Guide to Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports in Afterschool
Monday, 06 August 2018 22:56Postive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) is widely used in schools because it works.
Nurturing Imagination in Our Youth
Monday, 06 August 2018 22:52"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." —Albert Einstein
Join Us On a Civil Rights Learning Journey this November
Monday, 30 July 2018 16:35We invite you to join NAA, the Institute for Educational Leadership (IEL) Education Policy Fellowship Program and The Freedom '64 Project for a Civil Rights Learning Journey, from Jackson, Mississippi, to Birmingham, Alabama, taking place November 25 – 28, 2018.
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