3rd Annual Fall AfterSchool Works! NY Training Institute

3 rd A nnu al Fall
A f te rS ch oo l Wo rk s! NY
Trai ning I n s ti tu te
Workshop Schedule
Saturday, November 1, 2014
9 am to 4:30 pm
Schedule of Events
Saturday, November 1, 2014 from 9 am to
4:30 pm
8:15 am to 9:00 am Check In
9:00 am to 10:30 am Session One
10:45 am to 12:15 pm Session Two
12:15 pm to 1:15pm Lunch and Networking
1:15pm to 2:45 pm Session Three
3:00 pm to 4:30 pm Session Four
The Games We Play
1901
Physical activity ideas for after school programs
that are fun, skill building and encourage children
to work together. Participants will walk away with
activities to use in their program on Monday!
Danielle Depeaux—Teacher, Monroe #1
BOCES— Fairport, NY
SESSION I
9:00 am to 10:30 am
Afterschool Sustainability: Advocating for
Funding and Promoting Your Program Surrey
Promoting your program is part of long-term
sustainability. Learn how to advocate with local,
state, and federal elected officials. Get tips for
engaging local media to promote your program.
Nora Niedzielski-Eichner- Executive Director,
NYSAN - New York, NY
QSA 101: Using the NYSAN Quality
Self-Assessment (QSA) Tool to Improve
Afterschool Program Quality
Edwardian
Participants will learn to use the QSA Tool as part
of a quality improvement process. Self-assessment
is a low-stakes process for improving overall
program quality.
Alli Lidie - Policy and Communications
Coordinator, NYSAN - New York, NY
Brain Games
Victorian
We’ll look at many different kinds of
mind-stretching activities that will touch on
different learning styles for the school-age child.
You will leave with ideas to try at home or in your
program. This program is for providers working
with children in kindergarten and up.
Karen Scott - Consultant
Growing with Music
Coachman
In this fun, hands-on workshop, you will learn
basic music theory for beginners, learn the role
music can play in a child’s development, and
make two musical instruments.
Angela Banaszak—Community Education
Teacher, West Seneca Schools - Elma, NY
Effective Strategies for Training and
Motivating Staff
1904
Keeping staff engaged and motivated can be very
difficult. This session is designed to help youth
professionals consider different approaches to
training staff and strategies to ensure that they
remain involved.
Quinton Buckley—Senior Director of Member
Services, American Camp Association, NYNJ
– New York, NY
SESSION 2
10:45 am to 12:15 pm
Creating a Culture of Purposeful Conversation
Surrey
Every moment is a “teachable moment” if you can
encourage participants to reflect, reason, and
respond. Let’s answer the question: How do we
elevate the conversation with our participants,
staff, families, colleagues?
The Leadership Staff from Henry Street
After—School and Camp Services - New York,
NY
Fun, Educational Games
Coachman
This hands-on session will provide several quick,
easy, and fun educational activities that can be
implemented in programs the same day. This session is focused on useful and meaningful strategies for improving your educational efforts, while
keeping kids engaged and having fun.
Quinton Buckley—Senior Director of Member
Services, American Camp Association, NYNJ
– New York, NY
Positive Youth Development 101
1902
This session will introduce a new training
curriculum designed to help professionals apply a
youth development approach to their work with
children and adolescents. Participants will explore
sample activities and online resources.
Jutta Dotterweich—Director of Training, ACT
for Youth Center for Excellence, Cornell
University - Ithaca, NY
Challenging Behaviors or Goodness of Fit?
Edwardian
This training will help you take an honest look at
children and your feelings about them. We will
explore the nine temperament traits, discuss
“goodness of fit”, and re-evaluate our definition of
challenging behaviors.
Candice Thompson—Education Specialist,
Child Care Resource Network - Buffalo, NY
Making Sense of Data
Victorian
Afterschool programs are often swimming in datafrom attendance data to student surveys to school
records. Learn to put that data to use by creating a
culture of continuous improvement and
data-driven decision making.
Elizabeth Devaney—Senior Researcher,
American Institutes for Research - Chicago,
IL
Strategies for Including Youth with Disabilities in Afterschool Programs
1904
This session will provide tools to ensure that staff
at all levels of an organization have the skills,
knowledge, and attitudes they need to ensure
that everyone is welcome and included.
Laurie Penney-McGee—Consultant
SESSION 3
1:15 pm to 2:45 pm
QSA 201: A Deep Dive into Best-practices and
Specific Methods for Using the Quality
Self-Assessment (QSA) Tool to Improve
Afterschool Program Quality
Surrey
Only for experienced QSA users. Participants will
discuss strategies and look at tools for effective
methods of implementation of the QSA to create
lasting change.
Alli Lidie—Policy and Communications
Coordinator, NYSAN - New York, NY
Strength Based Strategies
1901
This training will teach you the concepts behind
strength-based strategies and some practical
lessons on how to incorporate them into you
afterschool program and life.
Robert Lowery—Director of Program Quality,
Boys & Girls Club of Buffalo - Buffalo, NY
ASW Roundtable
Edwardian
Come to this workshop to learn the value of
becoming a member of AfterSchool Works! NY,
how you can get more involved with ASW and
most importantly, learn about our great quality
initiatives such as Accreditation and Credentialing.
Lynn Siebert—Education Director,
Capital District Child Care Coordinating
Council - Menands, NY
Three Assets that Make STEM Soar in
After-School
1902
Participants will become more comfortable with
implementing STEM by experiencing a typical
activity, learning about great, readily available
curricula, and becoming familiar with STEM
practices that are at the heart of good activities
and good youth development.
Lisa Mielke—Science Manager, The After
School Corporation - New York, NY
Preparing Youth for College, Careers and
Citizenship – and Transforming Communities
Victorian
Two federally funded afterschool programs using
Cornell Cooperative Extension’s 4-H Signature
Program, Youth Community Action are promoting
workforce development among at-risk youth and
achieving national recognition for their successes
in four New York cities. Learn how to adapt best
practices from these programs to your program.
June Mead—Association Issue Leader,
Children, Youth and Families, Cornell
Cooperative Extension of Broome County Binghamton, NY
Social Emotional Learning in After-School,
“Oh My” “Oh How?” “Oh Wow!”
1904
After-School programs offer a unique opportunity
for equipping youth with social and emotional
skills. This workshop is designed to provide
practitioners with the knowledge, practices, and
resources needed to integrate and elevate social
and emotional learning into program design.
Kim Luce—Project Director, Child &
Adolescent Treatment Services - Buffalo, NY
SESSION 4
3:00 pm to 4:30 pm
Program Development
Surrey
Promise Zone uses a community school model with
authentic engagement of students and families.
This model promotes engagement with families,
students, and interns to improve attendance and
family engagement
Judy AuPont—Promise Zone After-School
Coordinator, Binghamton High School—
Binghamton, NY
Empathy in Action
1901
Participants will use creative movement to build
and cultivate Social and Emotional Learning skills.
Activities will encompass deep self-reflection,
group dialogue, and collaborative planning for
direct application and action.
Anya Warburg—US Program Manager, Move
This World - Alexandria, VA
Innovating Afterschool: Strategies for
Success for the 21st Century
1902
In this session, participants will have the
opportunity to learn more about innovative
strategies that will allow them to create programs
that truly impact all youth and demonstrate
measurable growth in both social emotional skills
and academic preparedness.
Sara Cole—VP of Youth Development
Affiliation, YMCA of Greater Rochester Rochester, NY
Managing Challenging Behaviors
Edwardian
Challenging behaviors communicate unmet needs
and lagging skills. Come learn practical strategies
for exercising positive leadership, building
relationships, structuring productive environments,
coaching social and emotional skills, and actively
intervening as needed.
Yaniyah Pearson—Director of OST Training,
Ramapo for Children - New York, NY
Brainstorming Session on Fee for Service
Programming
Victorian
This workshop will be a discussion among
providers who either offer fee for service
programming or wish to learn about fee for service
programming. By using other providers as
references, we will be able to learn from each
other ways to make programming more affordable
to parents and also more effective and resourceful.
Allison Weingarten – Program Director,
LMSW, Queens Community House - Forest
Hills, NY
Amplifying the Leader Within
Coachman
In this interactive workshop, participants will
identify their unique leadership capabilities and
learn tools to utilize those to reach their fullest
potential.
Amanda Meeson—Director of Programming,
The Leadership Program, Inc.—New York, NY