In this e-bulletin:

• Celebrate Summer Learning Day, June 21, 2010
• Training Opportunities!
• Resources
• The Buzz at ASAPconnect!

Celebrate Summer Learning Day, June 21, 2010

California is leading the way with a vision for how to fill the empty weeks of summer with enrichment and academic activities that form a bridge from one school year to the next.  On June 21, 2010,  join communities throughout the state in celebrating summer learning by taking part in Summer Learning Day, a national celebration of programs that serve the unique needs of their communities by engaging kids in fun, active learning in a variety of areas, including literacy, fitness and nutrition, and the out-of-doors, during the summer months.  This is a great opportunity to shine a spotlight on how your program supports kids and families and to honor your community partners.

Visit the National Summer Learning Association website, www.summerlearning.org/SLD, to learn more about Summer Learning Day, register your event and find resources to help you plan– including free webinars. Can’t join us on June 21st?  You can hold your event anytime during the summer – just be sure to register on the Association website.  And don't forget that July is Summer Learning Month in California.

Training Opportunities!

BOOST Early Bird Registration Now Open

Super-Early Bird Registration for the 2011 BOOST Conference is now open for only $380 per person. Reserve spots for you and your team to attend today. Not sure what staff members will be attending? Secure your registration spots now, and submit the attendee names at a later date.

To register, please visit http://www.boostconference.org/register-to-attend. This special offer ends June 30, 2010.

Science and Technology in Out-of-School Time, September 23-24, 2010, Universal City

This second-annual conference will bring together a national cross-section of stakeholders involved in the growing movement supporting science out-of-school. Sessions will include research-based best practices, program and curriculum development, evaluation, and systemic approaches to aligning science education in out-of-school time, with a particular focus on equity and access issues for underrepresented populations.

Conference topic strands:

• Curriculum and Pedagogy (with a special emphasis on working with scientists)
• Professional Development
• Evaluation and Assessment
• Research and Policy
• Partnerships, Networks and Systemic Pathways

For more info: http://www.scienceafterschoolconference.org/about

Resources

Changing Lives, Saving Lives: A Step-by-Step Guide to Developing Exemplary Practices in Healthy Eating, Physical Activity and Food Security in Afterschool Programs

A new resource, Changing Lives, Saving Lives: A Step-by-Step Guide to Developing Exemplary Practices in Healthy Eating, Physical Activity and Food Security in Afterschool Programs, is now available and can be downloaded at http://www.afterschoolsolutions.org/.  It was developed as part of the Center for Collaborative Solutions’ Healthy Behaviors Initiative.

The guide is designed to help afterschool program  and site directors, members of leadership teams and program partners systematically–and in an intentional way–strengthen their own nutrition, physical activity and food security practices using step-by-step guidance together with examples from ten afterschool programs across the state that have implemented the practices at an exemplary level.  The six practices described in the guide will help programs change their environments and give children the knowledge, skills and motivation they need to make healthy choices. The user-friendly guide shares the remarkable changes experienced at the ten afterschool programs together with concrete examples of how they developed and strengthened their approaches, overcame obstacles and achieved their goals of improving the health of students, their families, the staff and their communities.

More information about the Healthy Behaviors Initiative is available at http://www.afterschoolsolutions.org or by calling (916) 567-9911, ext 19.

The Buzz at ASAPconnect!

We're Moving!

ASAPconnect is moving as of July 1, 2010 to the Santa Clara County Office of Education

New address:

Education Services
Mail Stop 221
1290 Ridder Park Dr.
San Jose, CA 95131

Website & e-mail addresses will remain the same: www.afterschoolconnect.org • info@afterschoolconnect.org

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