Take team building to another level! Teach youth how to communicate within groups in a entertaining and delightful way.  With over 170 group activities, you can build cooperation, communication and creativity. (more…)

Calling all afterschool artists! Your artwork could be displayed at more than 8,000 Lights On Afterschool events around the world! The Afterschool Alliance is looking for the best artist to showcase their creativity on this years’ Lights On Afterschool poster!  (more…)

ANNOUNCING: 2015 STEM Video Competition sponsored by the Noyce Foundation with support from the C.S. Mott Foundation Kids are always told to dream BIG– afterschool programs allow them to do just that. Uncover the work of your program and students, and tell us what really happens in STEM afterschool. (more…)

Join us on Saturday, June 13, 2015 for our Summer Staff Kick-Off Mini Conference! Get your staff "SUMMER READY" for your program with  AMAZING workshops... (more…)

Register NOW for our upcoming Seminars on Grant Writing and Challenging Behaviors! (more…)

An article by Joel Achenbach for National Geographic asks, "Why Do Many Reasonable People Doubt Science?". I wondered the same thing myself.  I've found people who adamantly refuse to believe that something has happened or existed even if the proof was presented. The article is fairly long but absolutely answers this...

Earlier this month, the National Afterschool Association held their Annual Convention just outside of Washington, DC. The focus of the convention was telling the story after school programs play in the lives of children and youth everyday. A group of students from Connecticut were selected to be on a workshop panel...

All of us know someone who has had cancer.  We talk about radiation and chemotherapy but have you ever wondered where and how it all started? I came across a post through a Facebook page called "Reactions" that intrigued me.  It was called “How Chemistry Changed WWI”.  After reading through...

Every time a caregiver leaves, children experience loss.  Turnover rates in after school are rising each year and can only worsen year after year.  Break the silence that has surrounded turnover in school age programs. (more…)

Tinkering and the Intersection of Formal and Informal Learning Webinar Grab a 12" x 12" piece of tinfoil and be ready to explore how tinkering ("making") is fast becoming a trans formative learning opportunity, a platform to reinforce and measure 21st century skills and a powerful means for collaboration across...