Do you staff your program with young adults? If so, learn strategies for tapping into the strengths of the Millennial generation. This session will define Millennial characteristics and their manifestation in the workplace with a focus on the issues and challenges supervisors face when working with Millennials and an intergenerational staff. Participants will develop a matrix that outlines various supervisory strategies and how they relate to Millennial generation characteristics and traits.
Workshops
A Supervision Shift: Working with the Millennial Generation
Afterschool for All: Making the Case to Policy Makers, Your Community, and the Public
This workshop will provide information and strategies for effective marketing, advocacy, and sustainability efforts. We will look at the latest afterschool related research and policy development, including New America After 3PM data, and we will learn about and discuss a case study from a Lincoln, Nebraska program that has instituted successful, youth-driven marketing and public awareness strategies to gain support from key community stakeholders.
Afterschool Inclusive Math
Learn how to involve all students, including students with disabilities, in fun, hands-on inquiry-based science and math activities that engage and challenge students. Participants will experience first-hand activities that incorporate best practices while adding their own innovative elements – the integration of equity, literacy, and career connections – and will learn how to bring authentic math and science experiences to their students.
Afterschool Science Plus
Participants in this interactive skill-building workshop will take part in hands-on, inquiry-based science activities that can be used to engage students in afterschool settings. Additionally, they will take part in equity awareness activities that develop and support strategies that level the playing field in science and mathematics education. Participants will leave the workshop with new skills and information, and resources to support implementation of high quality science and mathematics experiences in the afterschool setting.
Afterschool U: Building Quality Through Higher Education Partnerships
Give ‘credit’ where it’s due. Learn from existing and emerging efforts to leverage higher education resources to build staff skills, raise the profile of out-of-school time learning, and create career pathways to attract and retain staff. The session offers a framework for developing college-linked programs and advancing the out-of-school time field through coordinated research, training, and advocacy.
All Decked Out – Math Games for Grades 4-6
Are you looking for ways to challenge and engage all learners in your afterschool program? Come prepared to play card and dice games that focus on the areas of math students often struggle with including operations, place value, and more.
Avoiding Liability in Afterschool Care
What if a lawsuit is filed? Explore ways to protect your organization against lawsuits. Recognize the insurance issues that affect your organization and determine the adequacy and efficacy of your policies.
Bringing Literature to Life in Afterschool
How do you effectively use your afterschool time to close the reading gap? Join me to see how exciting literature forms the basis for interactive activities that keep children interested and involved. In this session, participants will learn how to conduct a meaningful read aloud, turn any book into a reader’s theater, use hands-on activities to make thematic connections, and bring characters to life through role play.
Budgeting, Staffing, and Fund Raising for Technology
This workshop will provide basic tools for technology planning, show participants how to construct a budget for a technology program, explain the different types of staff needed for a successful afterschool technology program, and provide concrete ideas on raising funds to sustain a technology program. Participants will learn how to access online tools to aid in the planning and budgeting process.
Community School Partnerships: Creating a Community Rhythm
Through fun and interactive activities, this workshop will engage participants in broadening their vision of community school partnerships. Participants will use a collaboration continuum and “hood swap” to assess current partnerships and identify new partners for community school success. Participants will learn best practice strategies for effective community school partnerships and will identify one action to use upon returning home to improve partnerships in their own communities and schools.
Curbing Chronic Early Absenteeism: An Integral Component of Promoting Early School Success
It has long been recognized that chronic absenteeism (missing 10% or more of school) is a significant problem with highly visible negative consequences for children. The data are robust enough to sound a clear challenge to educators, policymakers, and researchers concerned with early childhood success. Learn from national research and hands-on experience in Providence, Rhode Island about how to partner with families to identify and address barriers to school attendance as an integral component of promoting early school success.
Embedding Academics into Every Day Play
Want to learn how to educate and motivate your kids when the adult focus is on learning and the kids’ focus is on fun? This session will actively engage you in planning strategies that embed academics into the recreational, educational, and social activities you offer every afternoon. Activities presented are ideal for staff working with students, kindergarten through grade 5, in all venues of afterschool programs.
Embracing the Challenges of Working with Older Youth
Overwhelmed by the challenges of running an afterschool program for older youth? Learn how to create a quality afterschool program for young adults through intentional design and delivery. Participants will be involved in developing effective needs assessments, creating a logic model to set short and long term programmatic goals, and implementing programming typologies that align with their goals.
Engaging Parents in Afterschool Activities
FAST is a model prevention program designed to build relationships and protective networks that address a number of problems: school failure, violence, delinquency, and alcohol and drug abuse. Learn strategies that increase parent involvement in afterschool activities; improve parent-teacher relationships; build support networks that include parents, the school, and community agencies; and empower parents to be the primary protection agents for their own children.
Enhancing Academic Achievement and Building Strong Community Partnerships Through a 21st CCLC and Service Learning Approach
This workshop will provide a model for establishing collaboration and strong partnerships with community members and families for your 21st CCLC afterschool program and service learning projects. A panel of Pennsylvania grantees who received funding through the Corporation for National and Community Service and 21st CCLC will share innovative programming ideas and practical strategies to establish collaborative efforts with community members and families to enhance academic achievement.
Enhancing Program Quality Through Combined Internal and External Assessment Strategies
This presentation describes a free assessment instrument than can be used to enhance quality programming. Participants will learn how to assess programming, score the instrument, provide feedback to program staff, and guide discussion to improve the quality of program implementation at the local level.
Evaluation Made Practical: How to Design an Evaluation Plan for Your Afterschool Program
In this interactive learning session, participants will be provided with a framework for designing and implementing a useful evaluation plan they can directly apply to their afterschool programs. Participants will receive a take-home copy of a template that will serve as a guide for documenting the essential components of an evaluation plan. They will use this template during the session to evaluate at least one goal they establish for their program.
Evaluation Study Shows Success of New Jersey After 3 Program
Is your afterschool program having an impact on students, parents, and other stakeholders? Learn about the key findings of the New Jersey After 3 three-year study performed by Policy Studies Associates as well as the results of other significant afterschool program evaluation studies. This is a chance to discuss your organization’s evaluation strategy and reflect on the role of evaluation in your organization’s overall planning and fundraising efforts.
Exploring Children’s Digital Media: Past, Present, and Future
In this session, representatives from The Electric Company, one of the innovative arms of Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street, will introduce ways in which deliberate applications of digital media can impact children’s literacy, health, and global citizenship. With a special focus on broadband resources for ages 6-9, participants will discover new games, activities, and educational materials available at the click of a mouse! Looking beyond school-age children to ‘tweens and teens,’ this session will also explore the “new normalcy” of digital media use among adolescents and the role that video games, the Web, mobile devices, and other emerging technologies play in young children’s out-of-school time learning.
Family Engagement Across Cultures
Tapping family and community resources creates invaluable learning opportunities for all children and staff. Gain strategies to engage families, the community, and children of diverse backgrounds to increase awareness and understanding of different languages, cultures, and ways of life.
Financing Your Facility
Schools enjoy the benefit of tax-advantaged borrowing through the use of tax-exempt bonds. In the typical tax-exempt bond transaction, a conduit governmental agency issues bonds carrying interest rates below those of taxable bonds on behalf of the school. This workshop will explore the types of bonds and the advantage of bond issues over bank loans as you plan to finance your facility.
Get Down, Get Fit, Get Funky with GeoFitness!
In this GeoFitness activity-based workshop, participants will experience and learn new fitness activities that develop muscle strength, flexibility, and cardio strength. Participants will be guided through such activities as aerobics, kickboxing, hip-hop, Latin dancing, and games that are fun while learning new skill sets to last a lifetime. The GeoFitness curriculum offers a variety of uses for diverse age groups and interests and is ideal for all grade school programs because it can be adapted to specific age groups.
Getting Along: Teaching Social Skills
How can you guarantee a strong sense of community in your afterschool program? This training focuses on the intentional teaching of interpersonal and intrapersonal social skills such as confidence, control, coping, curiosity, communication, conflict resolution, and community building. It is filled with many practical methods to teach social skills through direct, situational, and integrated teaching in afterschool programs.
Hands-on Academics – Any Time, Anywhere
Bring academic content to life with winning activities that maximize your learning space – floor, table, walls, windows. Take away practical strategies to better link afterschool activities with school day content and get kids moving, talking, playing, and learning.
Hands-On Educational Robotics and Global Positioning System Activities with the Nebraska 4-H GEARTech 21
The widespread availability of technologies such as LEGO NXT Mindstorm robitics kits, handheld Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers, and geographical information systems (GIS) software like GoogleEarth and ArcMap make it possible for youth (ages 10-15) to explore and practice STEM concepts through the integration of these technologies. In this workshop participants will learn how to use these technologies to improve STEM learning outcomes and increase youths’ interest in STEM careers.
Hands-On Science Explorations in Afterschool and Summer Programs
Join us in this highly interactive workshop to learn how afterschool and summer program staff who may not be experienced science teachers can effectively engage youth in grades 2-8 in fun, hands-on science investigations during academic enrichment time. Applying the principle of “learning by doing,” participants will engage in hands-on activities and experience first-hand the excitement of doing science explorations and investigations and become secure in implementing such activities with the children and youth in their programs.
Homework Time in Action
For many, afterschool is the “home” for homework. Make the most of it by creating an environment where children and youth develop skills, work with others, gain confidence, become independent learners – and get work done!
How Kids Learn Science and What It Means to Afterschool
This workshop will utilize the latest brain research to help participants understand how kids learn and how afterschool staff can facilitate quality science learning. Participants will be engaged in activities that reinforce three principles for learning identified by the National Academies of Science: (1) attention to prior knowledge, (2) foundation of factual knowledge and understanding, and (3) learner self-regulation. Participants will also learn teaching techniques that can be used when designing science, engineering, and technology activities in their afterschool settings.
How to Engage the Difficult to Reach Youth
Participants will explore some of the most challenging student behaviors and will be provided with more than a dozen interventions to restock their toolbox to effectively engage challenging youth. The training is fun, active, and informative.
Identifying Risk Factors and Preventing Suicide
Suicide rates among young people are on the rise. In this session, participants will learn what biopsychosocial, environmental, social, and cultural aspects are risk factors for suicide, and the common behaviors associated with increased risk of suicide in youth. Participants will be provided with resources and interventions for preventing suicide.
It’s OK to Eat and Run
After school hours fly by. How do you make time to address physical activity AND nutrition? This session shows you how! Learn and play “5 Servings Tag,” “Healthy Choice,” “Workout Buddies,” and more. All are inclusive and enjoyable activities that reinforce nutrition concepts and promote healthy food choices while moving. Leave with access to lesson plans you can use on Monday!
Jumpstarting Creativity in Your Afterschool Program
Stretch your creative muscle in this hands-on workshop featuring creative challenges, games, and activities that promote imagination, innovation, and creativity. Learn about the creative process and why it’s important for our students today. This workshop will jar the way you think and provide you new insights to the power of the creative process. Participants will leave with a better understanding of creativity and the creative process, as well as actual easy-to-try creative games and activities suitable for an afterschool program.
Kickball – Don’t Lose It, CHANGE It!
Students love to play kickball but it’s been on the “out” list for a long time – and with good reason. So, how can we modify the game to make it emotionally safe, ACTIVE, equitable, and fantastically fun? This session will show you easy to learn, easy to teach variations on the theme that your kids will love. And we guarantee you’ll get a kick out of it!
Learning Exchange: Supports for Grade Level Reading
Grade level reading depends as much on children being healthy and prepared to succeed in school as on reading strategies during the literacy block. Find out from school-based educators and community leaders in the Making Connections national initiative how they help striving readers reach grade level benchmarks by using individualized reading success plans, by identifying and addressing health issues, and by engaging community residents and parents. Come ready to share your experience and ideas so we can learn from each other.
Let Your Afterschool Program Soar!
How are kites constructed? What causes a kite to fly? This workshop will require you to get your hands into the activities and will challenge you to work on solving problems in an inquiry-based format. This session involves constructing kites, exploring designs, and examining the wide range of possibilities that exist when integrating STEM subjects, language arts, social studies, and creative arts. Participants will leave with a packet of materials to implement a kite curriculum. This workshop will be a soaring experience!
Let’s Be Brainiacs
Join us as we learn to be brainiacs! This session will explore current brain research and its correlation to behavior management and optimum learning experiences for children. Multiple intelligences and learning styles will be related to brain processes and the cognitive growth of children. Participants will construct hands-on games, develop activities, and discover new, interactive learning experiences that nurture brain development.
Leveraging Partnerships to Support Summer Learning: Lessons from Baltimore City
We know that effective partnerships can improve program quality and help us reach more children, but how does it happen? Join us for a session on how to leverage partnerships to access funds to build high quality summer learning programs.
Make the Media Work for You: How to Launch and Maintain an Effective Media Campaign
Contrary to what you may have heard, the media is interested in your “good news.” You just have to know how to get it to them. Learn how to use the media as an effective tool to enhance your program’s public image and bottom line.
Making Reading Come Alive After School!
Reading aloud is important and afterschool is a great time to do it. Participants will experience a process that allows children to become engaged in stories while building comprehension, social skills, and enjoyment of reading.
Making the Grade with English Learners After School
English language learners are the fastest growing segment of the school-age population, yet the achievement gap for ELs remains frighteningly and stubbornly persistent. Learn how afterschool can provide ELs with essential language learning opportunities that boost language and literacy skills – afterschool style. Identify key strategies that you can use in your own school-afterschool collaboration and program quality-building to help ELs succeed in and through school, to graduation, and beyond.
MicroSociety – Afterschool Programming That Looks and Feels Different Than Traditional School Day Programming
How do you create out-of-school time environments for middle grades that engage, inspire, and link learning to the school day, yet are fundamentally different? Gain research-based strategies that give youth “voice and choice,” transform staff into “fearless” facilitators of learning and positive youth development, and show program directors how to work with school partners to align school day and afterschool activities to make optimal curriculum connections.
Moving Leaders from “I Can’t” to “I Can:” Fearless Hands-on Science Activities
Come prepared to play and explore inquiry-based, hands-on, environmental science first hand. In this “try it and apply it” workshop, we’ll show leaders how easy it is to create engaging science experiences by making planning, preparing, and presenting easy. Participants will go home with an arsenal of activities and the materials that they created during the workshop.
Music, Power, and Action: Using Today’s Music and Videos as POWERFUL Educational Tools
What’s the connection between T.I., T-Pain, Gwen Stefani, Wyclef, Shakira, and even Cowboy Troy? What messages can be found in today’s popular media, and what are some examples of how POWERFUL lessons can be extracted from social justice from Common, Will.I.am, and John Mayer – and in movies like UP, Pride, Freedom Writers, Secret Life of Bees, and more? Don’t miss this fast and sensory-focused workshop that includes over twenty songs and ten videos you can use in your work with young people. Come to this session ready to laugh, play, and move to the rhythm.
Partnering with Faith-Based Institutions to Develop Afterschool Programs
Faith-based organizations can play a major role in the provision of afterschool services. In this workshop, participants will be introduced to a step by step process of how to engage the faith community and develop partnerships to establish afterschool programs in the community. Join us to learn creative strategies that your program can employ to partner with faith-based organizations that will help in raising funds and friends.
Partnering with Traditionally Uninvolved Parents
Do you find it difficult to partner with all of your parents? Does it seem like you have the most difficulty reaching out to the parents that you need to partner with the most? This workshop will provide specific strategies for partnering with traditionally uninvolved parents to promote student success in reading comprehension. Help parents understand how reading is taught in school and how they can support mastery at home. Bring your colleagues and develop a plan for your own school community that will bridge the gap between home and school.
Pathways to Excellence: A Model for Out-of-School Time Staff Development
Learning communities provide rich opportunities for building the knowledge and skills of out-of-school time providers. Based on the innovative School’s Out Washington professional development model, participants will gain tools and strategies to effectively use onsite coaching and online discussion boards for sustained staff learning and support.
Prepared for Work, Ready for Life – “Working This Generation”
Participants will learn how job and life skill programs enhance the earning potential of student participants and increase the likelihood that they will graduate and pursue higher education and meaningful careers. JRDC’s eight week afterschool program focuses on personal and professional development for students, trains them in job readiness skills, and provides opportunities for permanent part-time after school employment and full-time post-graduation careers.
Print-Rich! Art-Rich!
Come read, write, and paint and help us create a paint-rich, art-rich environment that supports children’s reading achievement. Learn how Energy Express approaches summer learning and increases reading scores. Experience the fun of book-based learning!
PUMP UP THE JAM!
Get up, stand up, and put your hands up because this fitness par-tay is sure to raise the roof. Tackle the childhood obesity epidemic and learn KidTribe’s turnkey techniques for creating a positively contagious environment where being healthy is cool. Activate heart rates and empower your staff and students with high-octane games, esteem-building exercises, peace-promoting contests, and hip-hoppin’ hoops. Pump up your playlists with fresh (and clean) songs that will motivate and invigorate kids. Get nutty about nutrition education with organic raps. Be prepared to move and groove ‘cuz there won’t be a dry armpit in the house!
Reader’s Theater Workshop – Being a Star Makes Reading Fun…and Even Hilarious!
Learn the power, benefits, and fun of using Reader’s Theater for reading enrichment with multi-aged groups of students to build reading fluency, comprehension, and self-esteem. Through audience participation, attendees will learn methods for preparing students for Reader’s Theater using creative expression of the body, face, and voice through exciting expression and over-acting techniques. Participants will receive a free specialized downloadable Reader’s Theater story to use with students and staff.
Recruitment and Retention of Middle School Students
Participants will learn a five-step system to incorporate effective consumer research and marketing strategies into the design and delivery of middle school programs that attract and retain students ages ten to fourteen.
Re“Zone” Afterschool for High School Youth
Jobs, family responsibilities, sports, peer relationships – the Prep Zone model for high school afterschool capitalizes on life experiences and independent learning to attract and keep kids coming back. Gain tips and strategies for transforming your programs into energized hubs of 21st Century skill-building, academic learning, and workplace development.
Satisfied Customers?...or Raving Fans!
Who are your customers? Children? Parents? Higher-Level Teachers? The Community? The relationships we have with the customers we serve are an integral part of our work. Attend this workshop and discover how to transform the relationships you have with key stakeholders to ensure they are huge, raving fans of your staff and your organization.
Serve Nutritious Meals and Snacks in Your Afterschool Program – and Get Reimbursed Too!
The U.S. Department of Agriculture can help afterschool programs by providing reimbursement for meals and snacks served to children. If you are a public or private non-profit organization operating a program that provides children with regularly scheduled activities, join us to find out if your program is eligible to participate in the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), and learn how you can be reimbursed for the meals and snacks you serve.
Shuffling Into Math – Primary Math Games K-3
This strategy-based workshop focuses on the best card and dice games that help your students understand and master numeration and place value concepts, basic operations, graphing, and more. Home connection ideas, reproducible game boards for afterschool use, student samples, and more will be shared. Come prepared to PLAY!
STEM in the Afterschool Program! Project-Based Learning with LEGO®
This hands-on workshop will show you how to implement a contiguous project-based learning solution using Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) themes. Learn how you can boost students’ test scores using engineering and robotics themes with LEGO®, K’NEX®, and other construction manipulatives. Come join the fun while building projects that will bring your afterschool program to life!
Success for Boys: Engaging Striving Readers
In this hands-on literacy workshop, the presenters and participants will explore current best practices for achieving grade level reading for boys. The workshop will address language and literacy skills using current research on teaching reading to striving male readers. Participants will learn about instructional strategies that will enhance the phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension skills of students in kindergarten through grade five.
Summer of Service: Growing Support for an American Rite of Passage
The Kennedy Serve America Act, signed into law by President Obama on April 21, 2009, authorizes funding for Summer of Service programs, beginning in the summer of 2010. Summer of Service programs engage middle school aged students in service learning during the summer. Through discussion, participants will learn about effective practices, federal funding for Summer of Service programs, and Innovations in Civic Participation’s Summer of Service Online Resource Center. Information will also be provided about two free toolkits – one on program design and one on evaluation.
Summer S.U.C.C.E.S.S. Changes Everything!
Are you looking for concrete strategies to improve the quality of your summer program? In this session, we will explore seven strategies to do just that. Participants will learn about the latest research that supports the field of summer learning, share their own best practices, and develop an action plan for implementing strategies that will improve their summer programs.
Technology and Academic Success
Recent studies have shown a link between participation in technology and improved attitudes toward school and careers. This session will explore the latest research findings and discuss how to create and implement a technology program that fosters academic success both directly through using computers as part of homework help as well as creating fun and innovative programs that foster learning and development of 21st century skills.
The Case for a Nationally Recognized Credential for Afterschool Educators
There is an exciting national conversation underway in the afterschool and child development field around the establishment of a nationally recognized credential. Based on core competencies specific to those who work in 21st CCLC programs and other out-of-school time settings, credentialing and certification has already paved the way for advancing the profession within the higher education system in many states across the country. This session will explore why credentialing and certification for the afterschool and youth development workforce is important, how credentialing is working in those states where it has been implemented, and its impact on the workforce.
The Electric Company: Media and Outreach Pathways to Programmatic Success
Join Sesame Workshop, the people behind Sesame Street, as they reintroduce The Electric Company. This session introduces innovative methods to utilize media as an integral asset of your program. Designed to meet the needs of children 6-9 years of age with research based, multimedia content, today’s Electric Company is fun and engaging. In this session, participants will have a hands-on opportunity to discover ways to engage struggling readers and connect with their communities around literacy initiatives for the whole family.
The Missing Puzzle Piece: Connecting Afterschool to the School Day
This workshop focuses on challenges afterschool practitioners face when developing programming that complements but does not duplicate the school day. Based on information gathered from program directors, site coordinators, and daytime teachers, participants will learn strategies to help bridge the gap between afterschool and the school day.
The Socci Multi Sport Approach to Out of School Playtime
Socci’s Multi Sport Approach will give you plenty of ways to make out of school playtime fun, high scoring, and inclusive. Violence prevention, inclusion, and obesity prevention are the key issues addressed in this workshop. All activities taught in this interactive workshop maximize participation and develop teamwork, communication, cooperation, and sportsmanship; adhere to national and state physical education standards; and can be used indoors or outdoors with large or small group sizes.
The Total Toolbox
Uh Oh, got a sub, staff out sick, and no time to prepare today? Come create your program’s “Total Toolbox” full of ideas, transition activities, attention grabbers, program openers, and sure-fire winners. Guaranteed to save the day!
The Virtual Green Experience!
EcoAmbassador, Going Green, Treehugger, Avatar, Second Life, Ning – do these terms have anything to do with afterschool? Absolutely! Explore the abstract techniques of social media and virtual world engagement and discover how to tap into your students’ desire to go green and participate in the digital world. Become a Digital EcoAmbassador!
Think Differently! Getting the Funding You Want – and Your Program Deserves
In tough economic times, it’s up to you to work smarter – not harder! Participants will learn why it’s critical to think differently about the way they approach fundraising, fund development, and issues of long-term financial sustainability. This workshop will give you the tools you need to achieve the results you want in less time than you might think possible.
Twenty First Century Practices for Teaching Beginning Reading and Writing: Preschool-Grade 2
Attend this dynamic workshop to understand how children learn to read, write, and acquire strategies to improve their performance and confidence. Recharge your teaching with new brain-based learning techniques for the twenty first century and gain confidence in guiding students’ literacy development. This session includes techniques for writer’s workshop, guided reading, spelling, and phonics. Learn to use hand spelling, finger spelling, adult underwriting, the powerful connection between writing and reading, and more.
United We Stand – Building Rural Afterschool Systems that Work for Youth, Families, and You
Finding rural model systems is difficult and the logistics of building rural networks are unique. This workshop will enable youth serving organizations to make advances toward building sustainable growth for their community afterschool program. Through hands-on activities and a host of resources designed to bring the community around a common mission, Empowering Youth and Families, participants will learn a basic framework of successful systems building in rural communities and how to expand on that framework.
Using Positive Youth Development as an Engagement Strategy in Afterschool
Predicated on the idea that every young person has the potential for successful, healthy development and the belief that all youth possess the capacity for positive development based not on their weaknesses, but on the strengths they possess, 4-H has determined what it takes to build an afterschool program that supports the positive development of youth. Learn how to apply the Eight Essential Elements of Positive Youth Development in your afterschool program. In true
4-H fashion, you will learn how to make your (best) program better!
Volunteer Development and Management
In this interactive workshop, participants will start with a volunteer workbook and end with a site specific Volunteer Handbook. Participants will examine and learn about the Who, What, Where, When, and Why of volunteerism and volunteer recruitment and management for an out-of-school time program. Other key outcomes include the development of a volunteer job description as well as a plan for recruitment and training of volunteers.
What’s Your True Color?
This interactive workshop will help participants gain a better understanding of personality and temperament styles leading to improved communication among staff, children, and their families. Participants will gain a greater appreciation of the uniqueness of self and others and learn to work more effectively with co-workers, students, families, and others in their life.
Why Won’t They Change? Providing Support for Change in the Context of a Strengths-Based Partnership
Change isn’t easy. Learn about conditions that lead to change and discuss how to apply that information to your work with staff. Come ready to think in a new way about effectively supporting others through change. Participants will learn a practical, strengths based strategy they can use tomorrow!
