by Brittany Sandbergen, Coordinator of Professional Development and Training posted 5.29.14 AfterZone Site Coordinator Luke Martin leads a lesson in making Glurch for AfterZone Educators and Program Support Staff For the last three months I’ve been working with Read More …
Month: May 2014
Hopping Ponds: AfterZone Intern Keily Pozo Contemplates the End of Middle School
Okaaaay, I haven’t wrote a paragraph in a while, don’t hate me! In the past few weeks, a lot of things have happened—all good though! It’s week four as an intern! I still can’t believe I’ve survived it! I’ve Read More …
Rock-Paper-Scissors, Zombies, and Quantitative Urbanism: Three Activities Guaranteed to Make You do a Math Double-Take
If you’re a teacher or parent, you’ve probably heard your students or children use one (or many) of these adjectives when describing math: booooring, hard, pointless, frustrating. Maybe they’ve asked you why they should learn anything other than addition and Read More …
By the Power Scholars Academy: BELL and Y-USA Take Summer to Scale
As cities around the country prepare to launch their summer learning models, and we here in Providence gear up for the AfterZone Summer Scholars, the question of how to cost-effectively scale summer learning while retaining a high level of program Read More …
Managing Up: Nathan Bishop’s AfterZone Interns Give Constructive Feedback
by Jon Allen, Nathan Bishop AfterZone Site Coordinator posted 5.16.2014 For their third week on the job, I asked the Nathan Bishop AfterZone Interns to reflect on their experience of having a boss. As a result, I got some unexpected, Read More …
The Ups and Downs of Teamwork: Two Takes From 8th Grade AfterZone Interns
by Jon Allen, Nathan Bishop AfterZone Site Coordinator posted 5.9.2014 As our Nathan Bishop AfterZone Interns moved into their second week on the job, a couple of them wanted to write about their experiences working with friends as part of Read More …
Program Provider Spotlight: The Hip Hop Project with Project 401
by Ann Durham, Director of Quality Initiatives posted 5.6.2014 Pictured: Project 401. Program instructor Jose Maldonado top left, program instructor Jean Febles top right “You’re always going to feel like ‘I can’t do it.’ It’s a matter of getting Read More …
Introducing Your New AfterZone Interns: Keily Pozo
by Jon Allen, Nathan Bishop AfterZone Site Coordinator posted 5.2.2014 Since it’s always been a bit difficult to keep our middle school students involved in the AfterZone when they become 8th graders, I thought it might be time to try Read More …
Earworms, Beats, and Arrows: Six Totally Unexpected Applications of STEM
by Michael Braithwaite, Director of Communicationsposted 5.02.2014 STEM learning has been a hot topic of conversation, research, and speculation in the last couple of years, but if you think STEM is all calculators, bunsen burners, and computers, you need a Read More …