Training Library
Below we have our past professional development videos and worksheets organized to help you find exactly what you need.
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The Quality Practices Guide and these sessions highlight the crucial planning and implementation practices that are essential for driving quality.
Quality Practice 1: Physically Safe Environment for Youth Programming
Quality Practice 2: Opportunities for Safe and Supportive Relationships and Connections Between and Among Youth, Staff and Families
Fostering Connections and Cultivating Community in the New Year
Quality Practice 3: A Positive, Inclusive, Equitable Environment
Quality Practice 4: Opportunities for Youth Engagement - Voice, Choice, Reflection, and Leadership
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These sessions are focused on giving you the tools you need to create a safe, emotionally supportive environment in the classroom.
Mindfulness with James Butler (Apr. 2020)
Compassionate Leadership (Nov. 2021)
SEL for All: Developing SEL among Staff (Apr. 2021)
SEL with Katie O’Neil (Jun. 2020)
Addressing Polarizing Events (Jan. 2020)
Engaging the Whole Child in OST Programs: An Entrepreneurship Perspective (Feb. 2022)
Strategies for Managing Staff (Feb 2022)
Culture Building With Mizzen by Mott (Oct 2022)
TBRI (Trust-Based Relational Intervention) (Dec 2022)
New Year, New Opportunities to Connect! (Jan 2023)
Behavior Through a Trauma Lens (Mar 2023)
Understanding Early Childhood Trauma (April 2023)
Tip Sheets
Strategies to Address Polarizing Events
Supporting Inclusion in the Classroom
How to Encourage Leadership Among Youth
Culturally Responsive SEL: Our Takeaways From Dr. Angela M. Wardupporting Inclusion In the Classroom
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Summer is a great time to help level the playing field with high-quality summer learning.. Get ready for summer with these helpful videos.
SEL for Adults from Summer Springboard
Optimistic Closures from Summer Springboard
Youth Choice and Voice from Summer Springboard
Building Community from Summer Springboard
Speaking on Summer: Summer Planning Reflection Tool (Session 1)
Speaking of Summer: Maximizing the Staff Handbook (Session 2)
Speaking of Summer: Youth Recruitment (Session 3)
Speaking of Summer: Staff Training and Program Culture (Session 4)
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These sessions focus on the ins and outs of managing the classroom.
Effectively Responding to Behavior (Nov. 2023)
Engaging Strategies using Youth Voice and Choice from Gear Up (Sept. 2021)
Managing the Classroom: Incorporating High Quality Practices (Jan. 2022)
Incorporating an OST Program for Neurodivergent Youth and Young Adults (April 2023) + Worksheet: Positive Behavior Supports
Tip sheet: Trauma Informed Responses to Classroom Management
Tip sheet: 12 Activities to Do While Youth Enter the Virtual Classroom
Tip sheet: Encouraging Literacy
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These sessions will give you the opportunity to level up your data collection and analysis skills.
Remote Program Quality Checklist + Checklist Here (Summer 2020)
When we are forced to Pivot (Nov. 2020)
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From TEKS to incorporating PBS media, these videos will help you curate and build curriculum.
Introduction to Service Learning (August 2023)
Promoting Literacy in OST Panel (March 2022)
Engaging Lesson Design (Aug. 2020)
Lesson Planning Part II: Aligning OST to School Day Standards (Oct. 2020)
Lesson Planning Part III: Differentiation Strategies and Meaningful Connection (Oct. 2020)
Addressing Polarizing Current Events (Jan. 2020)
Simplify Afterschool Planning With PBS Learning Media (Jan. 2022)
PBS Learning Media 2 (Oct. 2020)
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Recenter your work with our Quality Mini Series which focuses on pursuing quality in out-of-school time programming. These videos have a emphasis on virtual programming, but can be broadly applied (Jun. 2020).
Tip sheet: SEL’s Three Signature Practices
Tip sheet: Our Go To Brain Breaks
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Adjusting to new technology is hard. Here are some of our main tips and tricks for working with technology.
Exploring the Virtual Whiteboard (Mar. 2021)
A Swift How To on Video Editing (Apr. 2021)
Preparing for Remote or Blended Afterschool (Jul. 2020)
Virtual Programming 101 (May 2020)
Virtual Programming: Maintaining Connections (May 2020)
Tip sheet: Transitioning Back to In-Person Programming
Tip sheet: How to Create a Virtual Classroom
Tip sheet: How to Create A Bitmoji
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We know it’s crucial to foster a sense of inclusivity and belonging. These sessions have a focus on one or more aspects of DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion).
Pronouns, Language and Inclusive Practices (Nov. 2022)
Tip Sheet: Guys, Gals and Non-Binary Pals!
Supporting Emergent Bilingual Students (Dec. 2022)
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