Help your kids become citizen scientists. Free tools from National Geographic will help you organize a BioBlitz where students observe and analyze the biodiversity in your community.
A BioBlitz is an event that focuses on finding and identifying as many species as possible in a specific area over a short period of time. At a BioBlitz, scientists, families, students, teachers, and other community members work together to get a snapshot of an area's biodiversity. It's an easy activity with a big impact where you see nature in a new way!
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National Summer Learning Week (July 8-13, 2019) is a time to reflect on the importance of keeping youth learning, safe, and healthy every summer, ensuring they return to school in the fall ready to succeed in the year ahead;
So let's use this opportunity to share ideas on how you and your program plan to observe Summer Learning Week. Share your ideas with the Michigan After-School Partnership and we'll include them in our next e-bulletin.
We'd also love to include your suggestions in a media pitch on the value of summer learning in Michigan. Help us build public awareness and support for afterschool in Michigan!
Email MASP Communications Manager Teri Banas at teri@michiganschildren.org through June. Tell us how you do summer learning in Michigan!
And thank you for all you do to ensure kids keep learning and growing over the summer.
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President Trump's budget calls for eliminating federal funding for local afterschool and summer programs. If the funding is not maintained, nearly 2 million children and families would be left without reliable afterschool choices.
More than 19 million families want and need more afterschool and summer learning opportunities. For every child in a program, two are waiting to get in. Closing 10,000+ afterschool programs will hurt families and children in every part of the country, according to the Afterschool Alliance.
Send a message to your Member of Congress urging they protect and fund afterschool and summer learning programs. It takes just a minute to click on this
Afterschool Alliance advocacy alert, and send a message to your Member of Congress. Thank you!
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Are you an idea person? Someone who loves to collaborate with other colleagues, particularly those who share your enthusiasm for the critical value of afterschool? Then join us as the Michigan Afters-School Partnership launches a new start-up dialogue around how to best communicate and message why afterschool in Michigan needs to be noticed and expanded!
We're putting together a workgroup to plan Michigan-specific blogs, stories, media outreach and communications tools around afterschool. Suggestions for retooling the MASP website will be first up in our priorities. We're envisioning a monthly one-hour meeting in Lansing starting in July. In-person attendance is preferred but video/audio conferencing will be available.
Contact Teri Banas, MASP's communications manager, if you are interested or just have questions. Teri is an award-winning former journalist and child advocate who is excited to meet up with others who have a passion for telling the story of afterschool. Email: teri@michiganschildren.org, or (517) 896-0241.
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