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OregonASK's Afterschool Conference Open for Early Registration!
November 3rd is approaching quickly for
OregonASK's 2018 Afterschool Conference
- Don't miss your chance to
register at our Early Bird Rate
of $89 before September 15th
! Come Express Yourself like these folk here at Chemeketa Community College in Salem, while exploring methods to support and engage youth. Whether through art, music or words, learn how we can help guide youth in expressing themselves with confidence, seizing every opportunity they encounter.
This year's conference will
include 90-minute
expression sessions and 2 hour workshops featuring topics like;
gender identity, workforce readiness,
and cultural proficiency vs. cultural competency.
We'll have experts
from local and national levels presenting on these topics as well as many other important issues
that are encountered in Afterschool!
Click Here to Register Now.
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Oregon Afterschool Conference Workshop Highlight
Rachel Kessler
is a
Master trainer and curriculum developer for OregonASK
. She holds an MFA and provides training, technical assistance,
curriculum development, and project management to afterschool and summer programs. As part of OregonASK's training team, she has offered more than 300 hours of training to hundreds of afterschool and summer staff since joining OregonASK in 2014.
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In 2017 Rachel was one of the National Afterschool Association top 25 trainers at the National Conference
in Dallas, Texas. She has trained on Invention X, SciGirls, In-Flight Airway Science for Kids, Science Inquiry for Elementary school (S.INQ) and Middle school (S.INQ UP), NOAA Ocean Explorer, Family Engineering, Family Science, NCEE Library of Congress Primary Sources, TALE (Training for Literacy Education) and many more. Click Here to view more of the curriculum and training sessions she has developed offered by OregonASK.
Register Here
to j
oin Rachel and several hundred afterschool & summer partners from around Oregon at the 2018 Oregon Afterschool C
onference.
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New Round of 21st CCLC Grant Announcement
Great news was released last month for many afterschool programs in Oregon!
24 school districts and community partners
in Oregon received a total of
$10.67M
funding for the next five years (2018-2023). According to Colt Gill, Director of the Oregon Department of Education;
"I am thrilled that students throughout the state will have more opportunities to improve in a variety of academic subjects including reading and math, and to study nutrition, financial literacy and other life skills."
This is tremendous news for the programs who can continue providing service to underserved communities. However, many programs that applied for funding in the hopes of continue their work didn't receive the necessary funds to keep their doors open.
43 programs applied for 21st Century funding, a total of $18,061,637.53 was requested for Oregon afterschool providers alone
. Going forward with this knowledge, we need to educate our legislators on why afterschool is important and why more funding is needed.
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Upcoming Training Opportunities
This youth voice led curriculum is meant for middle school aged youth, and has been developed by OregonASK as a ten week curriculum for out-of-school time programs to create a Service to Careers Club. There will be a Fall Cohort of programs piloting the revised curriculum.
This project focuses on utilizing web and digital literacy resources to help youth build skills that can be captured and shared out in digital badges. Badges can be awarded in computer science specific skills or more generally applicable employability skills such as teamwork and communication.
August 31st from 9am-1pm in Wilsonville -
Leap into Science
This is a national program that integrates open-ended science activities with children's books,
designed for children ages 3-10 and their families. This training provides techniques and strategies for engaging youth and their families within an accessible and familiar setting and includes a kit of materials.
Register below or c
ontact
Rachel Kessler
with questions.
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Access and Equity Survey
If you are an afterschool program manager, director, or coordinator, don't forget to take our Access & Equity survey! Be part of the statewide project that'll provide information on how to better serve youth in our communities and share how real the need is!
As part of this project, we will also be hosting several youth and family forums this Fall.
We look forward to hearing from youth about why they attend afterschool programs, how we can make programs more appealing, what kind of impact their participation in afterschool has on their lives, and how programs are helping them prepare for their futures.
We also look forward to hearing from families about the barriers to participation in afterschool programs, what they look for in a program, and how best programs can engage parents and families.
We also have surveys specifically for site staff and youth.
Contact
Juan Soto with questions or find more
information
online
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Fostering Readers
Last fall, Washington County Cooperative Library
Services,
(WCCLS), in partnership with
OregonASK, received a Federal Library Services
and Technology Act grant from the State Library
to
research and develop resources
for public libraries and afterschool programs
to implement evidence-based literacy programs
for children
(in grades K-3rd)
who
are learning to read.
Since the fall, a team of four experts - two children's
librarians and two reading specialists
- have been working alongside WCCLS and OregonASK to curate research,
develop activities,
and
create resources for librarians and afterschool staff to support early readers.
This summer, the project team was awarded a second LSTA grant to pilot the resources with 10 library and afterschool sites over the 2018-19 school year. At the conclusion of the pilot year, all resources will be published and made available online.
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Zero Robotics Field Day
OregonASK met with three Zero
Robotics teams at Oregon State University, a couple weeks ago and spent the afternoon with them exploring this years' Zero Robotics challenge through an unplugged interactive game. Youth also had an opportunity to tour the campus including the engineering department, spend time with an OSU student tour guide majoring in math and starting pre-med, as well as enjoying rocketry demonstrations and a telescope view of the sun!
The teams from around Oregon got to know each other and get comfortable with the challenge for the summer, drilling for ice on one of Saturn's moons. We look forward to supporting programs as they program their sphere's virtually for the chance to have their code used in real time on the International Space Station.
Click Here
to learn more about OregonASK's partnership with Zero Robotics.
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Share Afterschool with Your Legislators!
Last month, over 70 community members from Beaverton & Hillsboro joined the Joint Committee on Student Success to share about important educational issues. Afterschool & summer partners from several programs shared their testimony about the importance of utilizing community partners as well as supporting youth during times when many youth do not have access to the support they need.
If you were not able to join us last month, mark your calendars to attend one of the upcoming committee hearings or join a Community Conversation being hosted by Children First.
These are great opportunities to share about the importance of afterschool & summer programs such as yours. If you are interested in participating in the hearing, contact [email protected] or c
ontact
James Barta
, Strategic Director for Children First for Oregon about
community conversation,
at
(503) 998-7914
or
www.cffo.org.
Madras community meeting with Representative Bonham:
August 14th 6pm-7:30pm
,
Tentatively at Madras City Hall
Lincoln City community meeting with Senator Roblan/Representative Gomberg:
August 22nd & 23rd
Location: TBD
Woodburn community meeting with Representative Alonso Leon:
August 29th 7pm-8pm,
Location: TBD
Monmouth or Independence community meeting with Representative Evans:
September 5th 6pm-7:30pm
Location: TBD
Student Success Hearing
September 13th at Ridgeview High School in Redmond
Student Success Hearing
September 27th at James Madison High School in Portland
Bend community meeting with Senator Knopp:
October 3rd
Location: TBD
Student Success Hearing
October 10th at Marshfield High School in Coos Bay
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Summer Celebrated Around the Country
Last month, 300 cities around the country celebrated National Summer Learning Day as a way of building awareness and helping support youth and families during this critical time. Don't forget to
register your program if you helped spread the word and share your pictures with us on social media!
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