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Upcoming Opportunities
August 1st - September 15th: Student Voice Summer SEED Survey
August 1st through 31st: National Children's Vision and Learning Month, learn more about its importance HERE
August 15th: National Back to School Prep Day, learn about its importance HERE
August 19th: National Aviation Day, explore aviation content for aspring engineers HERE
August 21st: Back to Basics Literacy Night Training hosted by Our Children Oregon and Decoding Dyslexia
September 22nd: OregonASK Quarterly Virtual Partner Meeting, 1-2:30pm RSVP HERE
October 26th: Lights On Afterschool
November 4, 2023: Oregon Afterschool Fall Conference from 9am to 5pm at Clackamas Community College in Oregon City, OR.
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Together We Thrive: Fostering a Sense of Belonging in Afterschool and Summer | |
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Save the date for an exciting fall afterschool conference at Clackamas Community College on Saturday, November 4, 2023! Join us as we gather to explore innovative strategies and share best practices in afterschool & summer learning. Immerse yourself in inspiring workshops, engaging discussions, and networking opportunities with fellow professionals.
Mark your calendars and get ready for a day filled with educational insights and collaboration. More details and registration information coming soon!
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Keeping Up on Summer in Oregon | |
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We know many summer programs were deeply impacted by a lack of public funding this summer, and in turn, many youth and families experienced deeper hardships during these summer months. In an effort to better understand and elevate the continued need for funding, OregonASK is continuing to collect data. We will be aiming to launch our survey August 10th- check back HERE for updates.
As we shared previously, the forecast for the Summer Without Funding was quite bleak for Oregon's rural communities. We also anticipate long term impacts with a growing distrust in an ‘Equitable’ system, deeper dismantling of youth development workforce, and continued destabilization for disengaged youth. We hope you can help take a few minutes to complete the survey this summer and stay involved by signing up for Policy Updates HERE.
The Oregon Summer Learning Collaborative has moved into the next phase to pursue 5 major priority goals related to common datasets, building a funding model that supports long-term investment, collective program quality, defining and creating infrastructure for effective operations, and coordination of messaging across state to effectively communicate impact and need.
Contact Bethany.Thramer@oregonask.org if you are interested in joining a team.
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The Wonder & Impact of Summer Funding from 2022
Rahama, a student leader from Portland Audubon, describes the ways they have grown as a person from being a student leader.
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Elevating Student Voice with Summer SEED Survey
You have the opportunity to elevate student voices in your summer programming! ODE has released an optional 2023 Student Voice, Summer SEED Survey for Community-Based Organizations designed to capture students’ sense of belonging and experiences during summer programs and summer camp.
- The survey provides an opportunity to hear directly from students on their experiences in summer camp.
- It only takes 10-15 minutes to complete.
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The survey includes flexible administration options: Administration Guide.
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Meant for Students entering grades 3-12 who are enrolled in a Summer Camp or Program.
- Available in English, Spanish, Vietnamese, and Russian
- The results will be shared in a statewide report to help inform future planning of summer learning opportunities.
Use THIS LINK by September 15th to have youth in your program participate!
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KIDS COUNT Data 2023: Results are in! | |
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Every year, Our Children Oregon presents data on education, economic well-being, health, and family & community through KIDS COUNT, aiming to address the crucial question, "what is the state of Oregon's children?"
KIDS COUNT, a program supported by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, is a comprehensive effort conducted at both national and state levels to monitor the welfare of children, youth, and families using reliable data.
Download the full report HERE.
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Music Math with Afterschool Math+ FREE Webinar Series | |
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Register HERE to attend one or more of the following live online workshops and learn how to use free AfterSchoolMath+ activities in your program, and earn Oregon Registry credit for your participation!
All sessions will be from 10-11:15am PDT.
Unexpected Math, Creating Rhythms, and Making Rhythm Patterns
Composing Music (with Math!)
Discovering Music Fractions
Orchestration
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Build Your Program Leader Skills at Your Own Pace -Asynchronous Training Now on OregonASK Online! | |
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This training series is designed to help you develop the essential skills and knowledge you need to successfully manage an afterschool or summer program. Each session is $30 and will earn you 2 hours of Set 2 Oregon Registry Credit. The series includes three trainings you can take in any order or combination of:
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Coming September 2023:
Asynchronous Frontline Staff Starter Pack
This pack will include individual asynchronous sessions that new or returning staff can access throughout onboarding or on their own: Behavior Management: Transitions and Time Fillers, Helping Stressed Out Kids in Your Program, and Lesson Planning Strategies for Afterschool!
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Additional Resources & Opportunities | |
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We Need Your STEM & Entrepreneurial Learning Stories!
Do you promote STEM or Entrepreneurial skills & mindsets in your afterschool or summer programs? Things like innovation, engineering, problem-solving, collaboration, presentation, media production or design thinking? Have you done some fun STEM activities or projects this year? Have you helped students do an entrepreneurial activity like an invention or pitch event or a youth market? If your programs have done ANY fun STEM or entrepreneurial-related activities this year, we'd love to feature your stories in our newsletter and also be able to report on your experiences in our grant reporting. Please take a minute to fill out this form with your information so that we can celebrate your successes.
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Supporting School-Age Child Care
The Virtual 2023 Infant/Toddler and School-Age Child Care Institute (ITSACCI) will provide professional development opportunities on the topics of social-emotional development and mental health to child care leaders and their partners whose work is focused on infant/toddler and school-age policies and practices carried out under the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) program.
Register HERE for the virtual institute August 15, 16, and 17th
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How often do youth in your program get to choose what they’re investigating or designing, the materials they might use, and/or how they engage with the work? In this module, participants try out strategies for elevating youth voice and choice and apply the ideas as they redesign a STEM activity to incorporate a greater variety of youth input.
*The expectation is that you will be live at all three sessions and an active member of this coaching cohort. Recordings are not available if you are unable to attend. Completion of the Asking Purposeful Questions module is a prerequisite for this module.
The sessions will take place on Mondays 08/07, 08/21, and 09/11 from 12:00pm - 2:00 pm PDT. Register HERE with the code AC251VC
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ACRES STEM Micro-Credential Workshop
ACRES (Afterschool Coaching for Reflective Educators in STEM) is excited to offer workshops about STEM micro-credentials, which are competency-based, digital badges for afterschool and out-of-school professionals offered through the National Afterschool Association. These sessions are free, live, interactive, and one hour in length.
Register HERE for the upcoming workshop this September 6th!
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Temporary FREE ACCESS to Our Online Course on Integrating Youth Entrepreneurship in STEAM Activities
If you already do some fun science and STEAM activities in your programs and want to take the learning to the next level this year, add in some learning about entrepreneurial skills & mindsets! It's easy and incredibly impactful for future academic and career success. Through simple activities like asking purposeful questions, playing time filler games, showing short videos, or scheduling virtual guest speakers, you can integrate meaningful learning about entrepreneurial skills & mindsets (like problem-solving, collaboration, idea generation, empathy, and opportunity analysis) into the STEAM activities and projects you are already doing with youth in your program.
For a short time, we are giving FREE access to a new three-hour online course developed specifically for out-of-school-time program staff & coordinators through the end of August. By the end of the course, you will have learned several EASY ways to teach and reinforce entrepreneurial skills & mindsets in your programs, without needing to add any "extra" curriculum (although we know of some good curricula, too, in case you would like to do that as well).
In addition, VentureLab, our partner in Youth Entrepreneurship learning, has generously offered to give a $200 voucher to 10 Oregon youth program staff or coordinators, allowing free access to their online PD course called "Entrepreneurial Mindsets for Educators".
If you would like free access to either or both of these online courses, please email monica.mcqueen@oregonask.org.
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Dates: Wednesdays August 30th, September 13th, and September 27th at 3:00 - 5:00 pm EDT/12:00 - 2:00 pm PDT
How can we make sure that our ‘hands-on’ science experiences for youth are also ‘minds on?’ In this module, participants learn how to support youth as they engage in science practices to learn science ideas, including planning and conducting investigations around testable questions. They’ll talk about the similarities and differences between questioning in science versus questioning in engineering contexts.
*The expectation is that you will be live at all three sessions and an active member of this coaching cohort. Recordings are not available if you are unable to attend. Completion of the Asking Purposeful Questions module is a prerequisite for this module. Register HERE with the code AC251VC
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Whole Child, Whole Family Health
Kohl’s and Healthier Generation are helping families prioritize healthy living and create home environments where everyone can thrive. Kohl's Healthy at Home is a hub of proven tips, activities, and resources designed for parents and caregivers – so the healthy choice is the easiest choice for families.
Learn more about the national resources HERE and check out OregonASK's own Wellness Guides created around nutrition, physical activity and environmental wellness.
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Updates from State Agency Partners | |
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If you do not get regular updates from Oregon state agency partners, you might consider finding out more about several regular update opportunities from partners we work alongside:
Oregon Department of Education
Department of Early Learning & Care
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OregonASK Expanded Learning Partnership
Wilsonville, OR 97070
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