Brain STEM: An Interstate Summer Virtual Camp for Migrant Middle School Students began Monday, August 3 with more than 50 students from Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Colorado, Nebraska and Pennsylvania. Languages spoken among the student population were Nepali, Swahili, Somali, Khmer, Gwich’in (Alaska Native), Qʼanjobʼal (Mayan/Guatemala), and Spanish.
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Center for Schools and Communities Family Support Initiative, with support from the Office of Child Development and Early Learning (OCDEL) will host “Weaving Together Love and Loss: Supporting Grieving Children and Families” webinar on Wednesday, August 12 at 10:00 a.m. EDT.
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Deadline: Friday, August 14, 2020
Pennsylvania Statewide Afterschool/Youth Development Network (PSAYDN) is seeking afterschool programs who would be interested in participating in the Youth Entrepreneurial Pitch Program. This program encourages middle and high school students to explore creating and developing their own product or business and pitching their idea to their family, friends, and afterschool partners in an afterschool event.
Join Center for Schools and Communities English language development (ELD) experts for these free virtual workshops. Events are open to any educator who is currently employed by a public licensed educational agency. Space is limited in each session; register today!
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Camp Connect is a 4-day virtual camp offered July 20-23, 2020 and is designed for high school migrant students. Through virtual learning, participants will gain leadership skills and strengthen academics around STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math). This virtual camp allows the student’s unimpeded access to build relationships with other campers, feel safe and secure, and establish rapport with the instructors and other staff.
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The Center for Safe Schools and the Center for the Promotion of Social and Emotional Learning offer services and resources available to fulfill funding requests submitted in recent proposals for the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency entitled COVID-19 School Health and Safety Grants. These are non-competitive grant issuances for educational organizations that require a few straightforward, streamlined steps to secure funding for your organization.
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Since Pennsylvania schools switched to distance learning in mid-March, PA educators have rapidly evolved to meet the new challenges of the virtual classroom. Integrating technology into the classroom has always presented practical challenges for teachers: identifying and learning EdTech tools, providing students with technical devices and necessary software, developing new pedagogical approaches, and investing significant amounts of time creating new curricula. School closures and the switch to distance learning, however, has revealed the extent of the digital divide among students. Many children, including English learners, lack access to devices and/or reliable internet to complete assignments and homework remotely. This issue of Everybody’s Kids provides helpful EdTech resources, discusses ways to increase parental engagement during distance learning, and examines strategies for promoting equitable learning opportunities for multilingual students within your school district.
Everybody’s Kids is an e-newsletter for all Pennsylvania educators of English learners, including administrators, content-area and classroom teachers and ESL specialists.
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For more than two decades, the Center for Safe Schools has been committed to developing creative and effective solutions to problems that disrupt the educational process and affect school safety. The Center provides training and technical assistance to help schools identify and implement effective programs and practices, and maintain safe, productive learning environments. In addition, the Center serves as a statewide clearinghouse for educators, parents, law enforcement and others on school safety and youth violence prevention.
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Parenting can bring waves of feelings. There are high and low emotional tides, and in between there is always movement. As caregivers navigate this complex moment in time, mindfulness can help adults to care for themselves and build protective factors.
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On Wednesday, June 17, 2020, the Pennsylvania Statewide Afterschool/Youth Development Network (PSAYDN) provided written testimony, in partnership with Boys & Girls Clubs Pennsylvania Alliance and the Pennsylvania State Alliance of YMCAs, to a virtual House Education Committee information meeting to discuss plans to safely reopen schools in the fall due to COVID-19. The testimony informed how afterschool can support schools in their reopening, shared various learning models across the state, and provided recommendations in spacing, funding and support.
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Join Center for Schools and Communities English language development (ELD) experts for these free virtual workshops. Events are open to any educator who is currently employed by a public licensed educational agency. Space is limited in each session; register today!
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The past weeks have again highlighted social injustices in our society. We stand in solidarity with our communities of color, vulnerable youth and marginalized populations. We mourn the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and countless others who have died unjustly because of systemic and institutionalized racism, implicit bias and prejudice.
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