Lovin’ Learnin’: Sneakin’ in the Standards! The educational climate is changing.  With a dramatic increase in the focus on testing, standards, accountability, and academic achievement, the afterschool movement is struggling to keep its balance while straddling competing educational approaches and ideologies.  Don’t get fooled into thinking it’s one OR the other – academics OR whole child development; learning OR fun.  When learning is active, engaging, hands-on, novel, relevant, playful, and social, learning is a whole lotta fun!  We can stay true to the playful nature and positive relationships that make afterschool special AND significantly enhance academic achievement. Learn how to create afterschool programming that includes movement, music, and novelty to promote artistic, physical, social, emotional, AND intellectual growth.  Do you want children to learn without losing the playful, engaging, characteristics that make afterschool such an enjoyable part of childhood?  Learn how to create programs that are playful, appealing, unique, interactive, AND are intentionally designed to “SNEAK IN” specific academic standards and simultaneously help kids develop a love of learning to last a lifetime.  The full-day and multi-day session includes experiential activities that teach English Language Arts, Social Studies, Math, and Science Standards.  Another option: focusing on one or two content areas (i.e. Sneakin’ in the Science Standards).  To include a lot of hands-on activities for workshop participants, this session can involve a materials fee based on the client’s needs.   Available as a multi-day, full-day or 1.5 to 3-hour workshop.
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