Discovering Great Artists

Post author:Marla Berrios
Post published:January 22, 2016
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“Discovering Great Artists” has 75 great artists featured in 110 amazingly fun and unique quality art appreciation activities for children. (more…)

Superheroes Unmasked

Post author:Marla Berrios
Post published:January 8, 2016
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Everyone has a superhero within. Superheroes Unmasked empowers children to learn from the inside out. (more…)

Professional Development Catalog 2015-16

Post author:CTAfterSchoolNetwork
Post published:October 5, 2015
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We are excited to share our newly developed 2015-16 Professional Development Catalog. This one stop resource lays out an entire year of professional development offerings for after school directors, supervisors,…

Inspiring Greatness: New Resource Library Book

Post author:Marla Berrios
Post published:July 10, 2015
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Inspiring Greatness in Education

Inspiring Greatness in Education describes the 21st Century Schools program (21C), a whole-school reform model developed by Edward Zigler over 20 years ago and since then has been in a constant state of testing, implementation, and scaling up. (more…)

Summer Learning

Post author:CTAfterSchoolNetwork
Post published:June 19, 2015
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Enriching Summer Programs Mean Success for All Children: How to Close the Achievement Gap Did you know that children who don’t have an enriching summer environment can lose up…

Help Teachers Handle Student Discipline Problems

Post author:Marla Berrios
Post published:May 21, 2015
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We all have student discipline programs and we all have great staff working for our programs…but do they know how to handle discipline issues? This resource is proven to help teachers bring out the nest in students of all ages. (more…)

CSDE Bidders’ Conference Information

Post author:CTAfterSchoolNetwork
Post published:May 14, 2015
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For those of you who missed the first session of the CT State Department of Education's After School Grant Bidder's Conference, you can still register for the morning or afternoon sessions…

Issues in Children’s and Families’ Lives

Post author:Marla Berrios
Post published:May 14, 2015
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School activities alone are not always sufficient to ensure children’s academic progress or socio-emotional development and well-being.

We offer after school programs because we know the time right after school is also the time that they are at high risk to act as perpetrators or be the victims of antisocial behavior. (more…)

Youth Programs…Promoting Quality Services

Post author:Marla Berrios
Post published:May 7, 2015
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I think we can all agree that providing high-quality, high impact services to youth is the focus of many of your programs.

In this resource, you will learn if your practices are tied to this goal. (more…)

Team Challenges

Post author:Marla Berrios
Post published:April 23, 2015
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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…)