Links to Learning: Responding to the Call for After School Academics While Addressing the Whole Child


Connecting the Multiple Worlds of Children

School, after-school, home, peers, and community, each shape the lives of young people. Time children spend at out-of-school programs should complement the other aspects of their lives. This training will provide tools for creating after-school programs that effectively connect children's multiple worlds, building on the latest research on topics such as resiliency and homework support.

Communication and Coordination with Schools and Families

School-age programs are coming under increased pressure to become academic in nature, more of an extended school day. Yet we know kids need a balance of work and play in their lives. This training will focus on strategies school age programs can use to communicate and coordinate effectively with schools and parents about children’s learning, building on the latest research on engagement and motivation.

Goals of Training:
To learn strategies for increasing out-of-school time learning supports for children and youth through:

  • Increasing Youth Motivation
  • Communication and coordination with schools
  • Family involvement
  • Community partnerships
  • Homework Centers
  • Tools for learning

Targeted Audience:

  • Site Directors
  • Program Leaders
  • 21st CCLC Coordinators
  • School Administrators

Training Content:

  • Two days of training or
  • Custom 2 1/2 day training. On the 1/2 day following the 2 days of training, supervisors and school administrators work together on implementation plans for Links to Learning activities.
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All of our trainings, except for our annual Summer Seminar, are conducted in a location of your choice. Clients arrange a local training event with NIOST that typically draws 20-40 participants. Two NIOST Training Associates plan and deliver the training, while a local sponsor, such as a Resource and Referral Agency, State Government Agency, City Agency, or State or Local Provider Association, coordinates the publicity and logistics. This model allows for maximum local participation. If a client has a small number of potential participants, it may make fiscal sense to send the group to the annual Summer Seminars series in Boston.

Opportunities for individual participants to attend NIOST trainings include our annual Summer Seminar series held in July in Boston. NIOST has been hosting its annual Seminars since 1999. The goal of our Summer Seminars is to provide training for after-school professionals from all over the country which can be attended as individuals. In addition, this series of events allows participants to connect with other professionals outside of their community, and thus create a potential national network among the field.