The Y4Y Insider - October 2021 |
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New Content on Y4Y
Structuring Successful Homework Help
and Tutoring Sessions Click & Go
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This Click & Go microlearning learning opportunity will help program directors, site coordinators and other program leaders establish high-quality student-centered out-of-school time (OST) homework help and tutoring sessions in socially distanced (face-to-face) and virtual learning environments. Check it out today!
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With fall football season in full swing, the lessons of this celebrated, uniquely American sport have much to offer students in 21st CCLC programs, beginning with the reminder that champions play as one! It gets rough as you navigate academic recovery, but Y4Y’s new Click & Go on structuring successful homework help and tutoring sessions will help you make sure you’re bringing the right equipment to the game! There is no “I” in “team,” and Y4Y resources centered on team-building can help you reach your most creative program outcomes. By the same token, we don’t want any students hogging the ball. Follow tips from Y4Y tools to ensure equity in your program. But don’t forget there are many paths to the end zone, so Y4Y’s brand-new course on career pathways can help programs guide students to a future and career that’s tailored to their interests and strengths.
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Gathering STEAM
Powering Your STEM/STEAM Initiatives
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North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE)
NASA Graphic Novel
Embark on an adventure with Callie Rodriguez, the star of NASA’s first digital, interactive graphic novel. Inspire the next generation of explorers — the Artemis Generation — with her adventures as the first woman to explore the Moon.
NASA and LEGO: Build to Launch
Taking STEAM learning to new heights! LEGO® Education is teaming up with NASA and the Artemis I team to bring students and teachers an out-of-this-world STEAM learning series. Build to Launch is an exploration of the technology, STEAM concepts and careers behind the Artemis I mission to the Moon. Join the all-new LEGO® Space Team and their Artemis I team counterparts for a 10-week interactive digital learning adventure. In each episode, students will find themselves in the shoes of NASA engineers, scientists, and of course astronauts. Through open-ended lessons, students will get hands-on and solve problems similar to those the Artemis I team faces as they build toward launch.
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NASA STEM: Problem-Based Learning: Flying in Formation: Oct. 25, 4:30-5:30 p.m. ET.
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Explore Aeronaut-X: Four Forces of Flight and Newton’s Third Law of Motion With Activity 3…2…1…Takeoff! Oct. 26, 7:30-8:30 p.m. ET
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National Rural Education Association and the Rural Schools Collaborative Conference: Nov. 10, 8 a.m. – 7:30 p.m. ET
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Archived Webinars
Please note: A certificate of participation is available only to those who participate in the live events. Certificates will not be issued to those who view the recordings.
With the U.S. Department of Education’s Y4Y Technical Assistance Team, explore facilitation methods, structures and activities to increase student engagement and learning. You’ll also gain strategies for building trusting relationships with students and community members and using student voice and choice to accommodate different learning styles, backgrounds and experiences.
Webinar #2: Establishing Trust With Community Members ~ COMING SOON
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Tech Tip
Y4Y has updated its online conferences page to include recorded speakers from the 2021 Summer Symposium. Check out your sorry-I-missed-it sessions!
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State Coordinators Corner
Post of the Month
Are you looking to share new Y4Y content with your state’s grantees? Feel free to share the below Post of the Month on your social media accounts:
Check out Y4Y’s newly updated professional development course for OST professionals: Career Pathways for Students. Guide students K-12 to success in trades, military, workforce or college with age-appropriate ideas and activities for career awareness, exploration and preparation.
Speaking of Career Pathways…
How do you connect grantees with college and career readiness resources in your state? Here are some links to national resources, with tips on connecting with local/regional agencies and organizations.
“Discover articles, information and resources that will help equip students with the knowledge needed to confidently transition to the next best step for their development; whether it be going straight to work to doing a job training program to finding the right career.”
“Readiness for postsecondary training and education is critical for students’ future success and ability to access career opportunities. High school graduation rates have increased, yet evidence suggests that students are not ready for postsecondary education and training that is required to obtain a job with a living wage.”
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s Connecting K-12 to Careers website is dedicated to “equipping all students with the knowledge, skill, and competence to succeed in the jobs of tomorrow.”
“Globally, U.S. students rank 17th in literacy, 21st in science, and 26th in math. Today’s K–12 education system is complex, and that complexity often leads to students underprepared for the career ahead of them. Our participation in this national conversation involves promoting programs and policies that work to close academic achievement gaps, supporting effective teachers, and providing the education community with the resources and tools necessary to address the education challenges of today and tomorrow.”
NCAN’s goal is to "help members learn more about this topic and think through their role in ensuring students are college and career ready. Programs may decide to expand their service offerings to include career readiness or partner with a local organization that already provides these services to ensure their students can access them. In all cases, we believe the goal of this work is to equip all students with the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to make an informed choice about the postsecondary path they would like to pursue.”
To connect grantees with Y4Y’s collection of videos, publications, web-based resources, and lesson plans and activities, direct them to this online library in Y4Y’s new Career Pathways for Students course.
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Voices From the Field
Farm to School
Y4Y recently chatted with Renee Starr, the Community Schools Manager with Brooklyn Center Community Schools in urban Minnesota, and Megan Grubb, the Farm to School Coordinator. They shared a bit about their small district’s popular and beneficial farm to school programming that impacts both the school day and out-of-school time. Read more here, or listen to the podcast.
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Renee Starr holds a Master’s in Social Work from the University of Minnesota. She feels incredibly lucky to work for Brooklyn Center Community Schools, where honest and innovative efforts to fight the permanence of racism are taking place. |
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Megan Grubb earned her Master’s in Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems in Germany at the University of Hohenheim. She’s worked as the Farm to School Coordinator in Brooklyn Center Community Schools for the past two and a half years.
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Oct. 28, join millions of children around the world by participating in Jumpstart’s 16th Read for the Record event and enjoy Amy Wu and the Patchwork Dragon by Kat Zhang. This book is a “celebration of cultural symbols, family and self-affirmation.”
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Nov. 10 marks 150 years since journalist Henry M. Stanley located a missionary/explorer who’d been missing in Africa for four years. His greeting inspired the legendary expression “Dr. Livingstone, I presume." Students might research the basis of other catchphrases, or learn how the collaboration of Stanley and Livingstone played a role in ending the African slave trade.
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Nov. 15 is America Recycles Day. Can your students think of one new practice to live a more sustainable life? Use bar soap. Pass out drawstring organza bags to make tiny soap scraps usable. Bring a thermos from home instead of buying milk at school. What ideas might they have?
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Nov. 18 is World Philosophy Day. You’re never too young to be a philosopher! How do your students feel pondering questions like “If a tree falls in the woods and nobody’s there to hear it, does it make a sound?”
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Nov. 27 marks the 320nd birthday of Anders Celsius, the Swedish astronomer, physicist and mathematician who first proposed the Centigrade temperature scale, which was later named for him. Take this opportunity to sing the praises of the metric system and discuss why scientists the world over love all things with a base of 10.
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Tommy Wimberly, a Bauxite (Arkansas) High School football coach and 2008 graduate of that school, went viral in 2018 when he gave the back-to-school “pep speech” to fellow faculty members.
“If you would have asked me 10 years ago if I would have been standing in front of the group of people who have influenced my life the way you guys have, I would have told you that you were lying. I grew up in a low socioeconomic class family — my mom referred to it as “dirt poor.” We lived in a singlewide trailer with holes in the floor. With that type of living situation, you can imagine the type of student I was. We all have those students in our classrooms who sometimes don’t have the best living situations, or home life — the odds are stacked against them. I was one of those students. I was the one that stunk in the back of the class. We had no running water in the bathroom. I had to boil water on the stove to take a bath, so you can imagine how few and far between they were. I was the one that wore the same pair of clothes every single day for an entire year. I was that student that went to class every single day. You know that one student? Who shows up every single day? That was me. Because I didn’t know but what lunch and breakfast were going to be my only meals that day. You can imagine the kind of student I was. I wasn’t a 4.0 valedictorian. I was diagnosed with ADHD early on, and it affected me in the classroom. But it’s because of people like you, sitting in this room right now, who made a difference in my life, that I’m here. I was that child who had his own child in junior year of high school.
“Despite all the hardships, people like you encouraged me. People like you never gave up on me. It was people like you who told a little sixth-grader, ‘You’re going to be GREAT some day!’ It’s people like you who told an 11th-grader having a baby, ‘Hey, you can overcome this situation. You can do it.’ In education, we make sacrifices every day, but those sacrifices impact more lives than you will ever know.”
Grab your tissues as you watch Tommy invite his educators-turned-colleagues to stand and be thanked, and recognize their sacrifices as investment. You’ll be inspired to help the Tommys in your program achieve their own greatness.
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