After spending months at home, children entering kindergarten face a unique set of challenges. It will take a diverse support network to ensure that they begin their formative educational years on the right foot, giving them a healthy start for the next 12 years. The transition to kindergarten can be difficult for the most well-adjusted […]
Back to School season is usually filled with hope and promise and excitement over another milestone. But not this year. Covid has created disruptions in how we do school and many districts and schools still have not finalized their opening plans. For those that have, many parents are opting to do something different. While stories […]
For decades, our juvenile justice system has been shaped by implicit bias and the disproportionality of discipline toward youth of color and those with disabilities. Things have got to change—and you can help. Schools and communities can address these imbalances by integrating social-emotional learning and restorative practices. By doing so, they may be able to […]
Lights, cameras, representation! Raising racially just kids in today's media environment. November 11, 2020 @ 8:30 pm ET Join us for a conversation about how movies and television shape children's ideas about race and ethnicity, what healthy racial content on big and small screens looks/sounds like nowadays, what we can do to encourage the development of more high-quality […]
"ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION" BROWN BAG (Virtual) Date: November 13, Friday Time: 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. Topic: KERA representatives will be with us to discuss how they have planned and executed virtual events addressing best practices. Anne Bothwell, Vice President Arts, will give an overview of what they have been doing at KERA; Dane Walters, Director […]
As interest in social and emotional learning (SEL) grows, so does the commitment from educators nationwide to advancing high-quality implementation. To encourage practices in schools, communities, districts, and states, CASELpresents the Mary Utne O’Brien Award for Excellence in Expanding the Evidence-based Practice of SEL to practitioners that are leading SEL efforts to enhance the social […]
The Office of Arts and Culture (OAC) and their partners are ready for another year-in-review! Join us virtually as we report out on the Dallas Cultural Plan and discuss how the Dallas arts scene has adapted to all the changes of 2020 and how we will continue to work together in this new future. 2:45 […]
FREE AND OPEN to all who create and support arts programming for youth with the values of youth voice, racial and social justice, and collective action. Community conversations are designed to be virtual “water cooler” chitchats, an open-ended dialogue for constructive sharing and co-learning. Registration for community conversations is required so we may join you […]
2020 will be a year that we will long remember as learning shifted online, out of school time professionals shifted their pedagogy and systems to remote delivery. We challenged ourselves to embed much needed social and emotional learning and academic tutoring into our efforts. And we found creative ways to retool our teams and our […]
This past year has proven the importance of out of school time (OST) for our youth and our communities—OST is not not a luxury for some; it is a vital component of where we live and how we raise our children. Every kid in Texas deserves the opportunity to participate in high-quality afterschool, summer, and […]
Save the dates for NSLA’s Summer Bootcamp: Get Ready for Summer Series for program leaders and their teams, March 1-5, 2021. NSLA won’t let COVID-19 steal the joy of summer learning and it starts with leaders like you. Program leaders and their teams are at the heart of high-quality summer learning experiences for kids across […]
Congress recently passed, and the President signed into law American Rescue Plan, which provides $2 trillion in emergency stimulus funding to address the immediate financial needs of families, businesses, and the education system amidst the economic fallout from COVID-19. Specifically, there will be $8.45 billion available at the state level for afterschool and summer programs […]
