By Emmanuel Janvier, Gilbert Stuart AfterZone Site Coordinator posted on 3.20.14 Last week I put out a call to the Providence community to help one of my AfterZone families get back on their feet after they lost everything in Read More …
Month: March 2014
Case Study: PASA’s Open Badges
Two years ago, the MacArthur Foundation teamed up with Mozilla to issued a challenge to the education community: Design new forms of learning pathways that utilize digital badges as their “accreditation.” Organizations and institutions from around the world responded with Read More …
Students Eat Up New Program: AfterZone Premieres Dinner
By Rob Randall, Director of Middle School Initiatives posted on 3.19.14 For the past 2 weeks, the Gilbert Stuart and Esek Hopkins AfterZone sites have been piloting a new program in partnership with Sodexo and the Healthy Communities Office at Read More …
New Partnership Links AfterZone Programs and Potential Career Interests
This year, the Office of Career and Technical Education at the Providence Public School District and PASA teamed up to better connect middle school interests with relevant high school choices and career possibilities by ensuring that students in PASA’s Read More …
DML 2014: Blowing Adult Assumptions About Youth Out of the Water
By Michael Braithwaite, Director of Communications posted 3.13.14 When I was in high school *way* back in the ’90s, I joined my first Internet chat room populated by fans of one of my favorite bands at the Read More …
From Our Archives: 9 Photos of Student Engagement Guaranteed to Make You Smile
Think after-school programs just make sure young people have “stuff to do” until their parents get out of work? Think again! High quality after-school programs activate imaginations, inspire new passions, develop positive relationships with community members and teachers, and engage Read More …
An AfterZone Family Needs Your Help
By Emmanuel Janivier, AfterZone Site Coordinator posted 3.10.14 One of our AfterZone youth and their family tragically lost everything in a house fire last week. To help them get back on their feet and to make sure that the AfterZone Read More …
Notes from the NAA Convention: Deepening Professional Development for STEM
By Naomi Jacobs, AfterZone Scholars Coordinator posted 3.6.14 Last weekend I had the pleasure of joining my afterschool colleagues from around the country at the National Afterschool Association Convention in New York City. The theme of this year’s convention was Read More …
It’s All Connected: Sharing Expanded Learning Practices at DML2014
By Alejandro Molina, PASA Deputy Director posted 3.5.14 In my 6 years at PASA, I’ve seen the old perception of after-school as “babysitting” evolve into a sophisticated understanding that after-school, summer, and expanded learning programs are intrinsically and critically connected Read More …
Sign Up: Winter/Spring Statewide Professional Development Calendar
The Rhode Island Afterschool Plus Alliance (RIASPA) and PASA have teamed up with generous support from RIDE’s 21st CCLC Initiative to bring you the winter/spring, 2014 professional development calendar. We are excited to offer workshop opportunities on many Fridays this Read More …