3 rd A nnu al Fall A f te rS ch oo l Wo rk s! NY Trai ning I n s ti tu te Workshop Schedule Saturday, November 1, 2014 9 am to 4:30 pm Schedule of Events Saturday, November 1, 2014 from 9 am to 4:30 pm 8:15 am to 9:00 am Check In 9:00 am to 10:30 am Session One 10:45 am to 12:15 pm Session Two 12:15 pm to 1:15pm Lunch and Networking 1:15pm to 2:45 pm Session Three 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm Session Four The Games We Play 1901 Physical activity ideas for after school programs that are fun, skill building and encourage children to work together. Participants will walk away with activities to use in their program on Monday! Danielle Depeaux—Teacher, Monroe #1 BOCES— Fairport, NY SESSION I 9:00 am to 10:30 am Afterschool Sustainability: Advocating for Funding and Promoting Your Program Surrey Promoting your program is part of long-term sustainability. Learn how to advocate with local, state, and federal elected officials. Get tips for engaging local media to promote your program. Nora Niedzielski-Eichner- Executive Director, NYSAN - New York, NY QSA 101: Using the NYSAN Quality Self-Assessment (QSA) Tool to Improve Afterschool Program Quality Edwardian Participants will learn to use the QSA Tool as part of a quality improvement process. Self-assessment is a low-stakes process for improving overall program quality. Alli Lidie - Policy and Communications Coordinator, NYSAN - New York, NY Brain Games Victorian We’ll look at many different kinds of mind-stretching activities that will touch on different learning styles for the school-age child. You will leave with ideas to try at home or in your program. This program is for providers working with children in kindergarten and up. Karen Scott - Consultant Growing with Music Coachman In this fun, hands-on workshop, you will learn basic music theory for beginners, learn the role music can play in a child’s development, and make two musical instruments. Angela Banaszak—Community Education Teacher, West Seneca Schools - Elma, NY Effective Strategies for Training and Motivating Staff 1904 Keeping staff engaged and motivated can be very difficult. This session is designed to help youth professionals consider different approaches to training staff and strategies to ensure that they remain involved. Quinton Buckley—Senior Director of Member Services, American Camp Association, NYNJ – New York, NY SESSION 2 10:45 am to 12:15 pm Creating a Culture of Purposeful Conversation Surrey Every moment is a “teachable moment” if you can encourage participants to reflect, reason, and respond. Let’s answer the question: How do we elevate the conversation with our participants, staff, families, colleagues? The Leadership Staff from Henry Street After—School and Camp Services - New York, NY Fun, Educational Games Coachman This hands-on session will provide several quick, easy, and fun educational activities that can be implemented in programs the same day. This session is focused on useful and meaningful strategies for improving your educational efforts, while keeping kids engaged and having fun. Quinton Buckley—Senior Director of Member Services, American Camp Association, NYNJ – New York, NY Positive Youth Development 101 1902 This session will introduce a new training curriculum designed to help professionals apply a youth development approach to their work with children and adolescents. Participants will explore sample activities and online resources. Jutta Dotterweich—Director of Training, ACT for Youth Center for Excellence, Cornell University - Ithaca, NY Challenging Behaviors or Goodness of Fit? Edwardian This training will help you take an honest look at children and your feelings about them. We will explore the nine temperament traits, discuss “goodness of fit”, and re-evaluate our definition of challenging behaviors. Candice Thompson—Education Specialist, Child Care Resource Network - Buffalo, NY Making Sense of Data Victorian Afterschool programs are often swimming in datafrom attendance data to student surveys to school records. Learn to put that data to use by creating a culture of continuous improvement and data-driven decision making. Elizabeth Devaney—Senior Researcher, American Institutes for Research - Chicago, IL Strategies for Including Youth with Disabilities in Afterschool Programs 1904 This session will provide tools to ensure that staff at all levels of an organization have the skills, knowledge, and attitudes they need to ensure that everyone is welcome and included. Laurie Penney-McGee—Consultant SESSION 3 1:15 pm to 2:45 pm QSA 201: A Deep Dive into Best-practices and Specific Methods for Using the Quality Self-Assessment (QSA) Tool to Improve Afterschool Program Quality Surrey Only for experienced QSA users. Participants will discuss strategies and look at tools for effective methods of implementation of the QSA to create lasting change. Alli Lidie—Policy and Communications Coordinator, NYSAN - New York, NY Strength Based Strategies 1901 This training will teach you the concepts behind strength-based strategies and some practical lessons on how to incorporate them into you afterschool program and life. Robert Lowery—Director of Program Quality, Boys & Girls Club of Buffalo - Buffalo, NY ASW Roundtable Edwardian Come to this workshop to learn the value of becoming a member of AfterSchool Works! NY, how you can get more involved with ASW and most importantly, learn about our great quality initiatives such as Accreditation and Credentialing. Lynn Siebert—Education Director, Capital District Child Care Coordinating Council - Menands, NY Three Assets that Make STEM Soar in After-School 1902 Participants will become more comfortable with implementing STEM by experiencing a typical activity, learning about great, readily available curricula, and becoming familiar with STEM practices that are at the heart of good activities and good youth development. Lisa Mielke—Science Manager, The After School Corporation - New York, NY Preparing Youth for College, Careers and Citizenship – and Transforming Communities Victorian Two federally funded afterschool programs using Cornell Cooperative Extension’s 4-H Signature Program, Youth Community Action are promoting workforce development among at-risk youth and achieving national recognition for their successes in four New York cities. Learn how to adapt best practices from these programs to your program. June Mead—Association Issue Leader, Children, Youth and Families, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Broome County Binghamton, NY Social Emotional Learning in After-School, “Oh My” “Oh How?” “Oh Wow!” 1904 After-School programs offer a unique opportunity for equipping youth with social and emotional skills. This workshop is designed to provide practitioners with the knowledge, practices, and resources needed to integrate and elevate social and emotional learning into program design. Kim Luce—Project Director, Child & Adolescent Treatment Services - Buffalo, NY SESSION 4 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm Program Development Surrey Promise Zone uses a community school model with authentic engagement of students and families. This model promotes engagement with families, students, and interns to improve attendance and family engagement Judy AuPont—Promise Zone After-School Coordinator, Binghamton High School— Binghamton, NY Empathy in Action 1901 Participants will use creative movement to build and cultivate Social and Emotional Learning skills. Activities will encompass deep self-reflection, group dialogue, and collaborative planning for direct application and action. Anya Warburg—US Program Manager, Move This World - Alexandria, VA Innovating Afterschool: Strategies for Success for the 21st Century 1902 In this session, participants will have the opportunity to learn more about innovative strategies that will allow them to create programs that truly impact all youth and demonstrate measurable growth in both social emotional skills and academic preparedness. Sara Cole—VP of Youth Development Affiliation, YMCA of Greater Rochester Rochester, NY Managing Challenging Behaviors Edwardian Challenging behaviors communicate unmet needs and lagging skills. Come learn practical strategies for exercising positive leadership, building relationships, structuring productive environments, coaching social and emotional skills, and actively intervening as needed. Yaniyah Pearson—Director of OST Training, Ramapo for Children - New York, NY Brainstorming Session on Fee for Service Programming Victorian This workshop will be a discussion among providers who either offer fee for service programming or wish to learn about fee for service programming. By using other providers as references, we will be able to learn from each other ways to make programming more affordable to parents and also more effective and resourceful. Allison Weingarten – Program Director, LMSW, Queens Community House - Forest Hills, NY Amplifying the Leader Within Coachman In this interactive workshop, participants will identify their unique leadership capabilities and learn tools to utilize those to reach their fullest potential. Amanda Meeson—Director of Programming, The Leadership Program, Inc.—New York, NY