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Games that Build Community F.A.S.T. Do you want a stronger sense of community in your programs? Attend this workshop and learn games to do with groups of kids as they progress through the Forming, Attempting, Storming and Transforming stages of team building. Be prepared to play! This is a collection of our most favorite activities – gathered during more than 30 years of program experience. Learn name games, get-to-know-you games, circle games, waiting games, team-building games and more. This is a hands-on experience and a time to share some favorite proven games and activities for use in school-age care programs. Available as a half day, or 1.5 - 3 hour workshop
Superior Interiors: Do you want some practical and easy to use tools and strategies to use when designing or redesigning the space of any school-age care program. Attend this workshop and learn how to create an environment that encourages desirable behavior and results in a more enjoyable work environment for caregivers. We address the unique problems of shared space in school-age care programs. Available as a 1.5 hour workshop or imbedded in the longer Super Tools workshop.
Super Tools: Behavior Management for Super Afterschool Programs and Camps. Have you ever experienced a behavior problem with a child in your program? Of course you have, we all have? Would you like some powerful and practical tools to help you get the kind of behaviors that make you love working with kids? Attend this workshop and discover how to create superior interiors and tremendous agendas that promote desirable behavior. Learn strategies for preventing undesirable behavior. Learn techniques to use once misbehavior has occurred: positive discipline, logical consequences, reparations, restitution and self-esteem. Learn many tools that are guaranteed to make guidance and building self-discipline easier and make working with school-age kids more enjoyable! Available as a full-day or double, or single-session workshop.
Getting Along: Teaching Social Skills! How can you guarantee a strong-sense of community in your afterschool program? Attend this training! This training focuses on the intentional teaching of interpersonal and intra-personal social skills such as confidence, control, coping, curiosity, communication, conflict resolution, and community building. It is filled with many practical methods to teach social skills through direct, situational and integrated teaching in afterschool programs. Available as a Keynote, full-day, double or single-session workshop. Getting Along HandoutVideo Snippet of Getting Along Workshop
Fantastic Family Forces: It’s All About the Relationships. The relationships we have with the families of the children we care for are an integral part of our work. This training provides practical strategies for building strong staff-parent relationships. Come learn powerful tactics to use when communicating your concern about a child. Learn effective methods to use when listening to and helping alleviate parent concerns. Learn the best tricks to get parents involved and engaged. Attend this workshop and discover how to ensure your parents are huge, raving fans of your staff and your program. Available as a single-session workshop. Fantastic Family Forces Handout
Afterschool TeamsWork! Is your staff team a model of effective
teamwork? Would you like it to be? This exciting workshop not only
helps your staff team to learn communication, creativity, and problem solving
skills, it also teaches them to lead teambuilding activities with the children.
Staff experience creative and often hilarious team-building activities, then
they discover ways to adapt the activities to use with children. This
workshop is designed to be delivered to a distinct working team - people who
will not only attend the session, but actually work together. Available as a
full-day double or single-session workshop.
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Brain Smart Programming: How can you create an afterschool program or
camp that promotes brain development a program that kids will
remember positively for many years? Attend this workshop! This
training addresses cutting-edge neuroscience and the practical
applications of this information through intentional programming in
school-age care, with the purpose of facilitating positive
development. We will discuss what needs to be present and what
needs to be eliminated in programs for young brains to develop
positively. Available as a Keynote, full-day, double or
single-session workshop.
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Learning to Lead: Leading to Learn! How can you develop a motivated, enthusiastic, high performing staff team with a high level of commitment? Attend this workshop! Explore the complex systems of afterschool leadership, leaderly learning, and learn how to develop vision, and a culture of innovation, empowerment and teamwork. An introduction to systems thinking will lead into an understanding of the importance of learning among leaders and team members. This workshop will focus on how to give knowledge, information, power and control to staff at all levels of an organization, creating a non-hierarchical learning organization. Available as a double or single-session workshop.
Eight Habits of Highly Effective Afterschool Leaders Attend this workshop and explore the traits, passions, and habits required to be a highly effective afterschool leader. These 8 habits are essential for afterschool professionals in leadership roles: leading kids, mentoring colleagues, or supervising staff. Come investigate these powerful elements and learn practical and useful approaches to enhance these traits and transform yourself and others into extraordinary afterschool leaders. Available as a 1.5 to 3-hour workshop. Video Snippet of 8 Habits Workshop
Satisfied Customers?...or Raving Fans! Who are your
“customers?” Children? Parents? Higher-Level Teachers? The
Community? The relationships we have with the customers we serve
are an integral part of our work. Attend this workshop and
discover how to transform the relationships you have with key stakeholders to
ensure they are huge, raving fans of your staff and your
organization. Available as a single-session workshop.
Promoting the Positive Potential and Power of Play! Play is not a four
letter word. Well, technically it is, but that’s not the point! Do
you feel pressured to sit children down, to keep them “busy” to get
them working on worksheets? Do you understand that play is
important to learning, but don’t have the words to help others
understand why? High stakes testing and pressure to improve
academic performance are stealing the essence of childhood learning
and forcing educators into counter-productive practices. Attend
this workshop and learn why playfulness is important to the brain
and learning. Come learn how abstract thought and discipline are
built through play! Come learn how to advocate for play with
parents, colleagues, administrators, and lawmakers! Available as a
1.5 - 3 hour workshop.
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Total Recall: Mega Memory Mind Muscle! Are you great at remembering things or are you better at forgetting? Attend this workshop and boost your own memory power and build some strong memory muscle. Learn techniques to help children and staff remember what you teach them. Learn strategies to help learning stick in the minds of learners of all ages. Learn tricks for teachers and trainers. Unravel and remember the mysteries of pegging, linking, mnemonics and the ancient “room” method. Available as a double or single-session workshop.
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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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