Adventures in Peacemaking

Another great resource for those after school teachers looking for ways to resolve conflict in their after school program.  Is peacekeeping becoming the focus of your program instead of your day to day planned activities?  Are children working together and you would like to continue the trend?

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Challenging Behavior in Young Children

Challenging Behavior in Young Children, Understanding, Preventing, and Responding Effectively provides in-depth background information and strategies to help pre-service and practicing teachers understand, prevent, and address the behavior problems found often in after school programs.

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The Business of After School Mini-Conference 12/4

WHEN: Thursday, December 4, 2014, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
WHERE: Best Western Executive Hotel
490 Sawmill Rd, West Haven, CT 06516
WHO: Program Managers, Directors and Site Supervisors, as well as
Program Staff who want the skills needed for advancement
COST: $75.00 – Members
$100.00 – Non Members

Registration Deadline: November 24, 2014

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Designs for the First Schools on Mars!

(and other intentional Marketing Strategies for successful afterschool programs)

This is the fifth of an occasional series about “The Business of Before and After School.” Look for other posts on this topic by selecting Business from the category list below right.

To maintain, strengthen and grow a thriving organization, program directors and administrators must always be focused on marketing. Just like Coke, Ford and Little Caesars Pizza—your organization’s budget each year should contain a healthy marketing line-item. This is one investment that can make a significant difference to your future bottom-line in both the number of students participating and the level of revenue (cash flow) needed to keep your organization moving forward. (more…)

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Summer & After School Advocacy Calls Scheduled

Do you want the State of Connecticut to expand state funding for summer and after school programs? We do too!

Now that the election is over, we need to finalize our 2015 legislative agenda, and we need your input.

The Connecticut After School Network will have a series of conference calls over the coming weeks to prepare for the next state legislative session which starts on Wednesday, January 7th, 2015.

Thursday, November 20, 1 pm:  Kick-off conference call to 1) recap the election, 2) discuss state budget deficit implications, and (more…)

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