Free Resources for 21st CCLC Grantees
Webinars
Connecting with Community
It takes a village to raise a child. Learn to develop and manage partnerships with your community that benefit kids, programs, and community organizations.
Link: http://foundations.adobeconnect.com/p90556585/
PD@your.desktop On-Demand
Enjoy a Free On-Demand webinar of your choice. Go to our Online Store, choose an On-Demand webinar, and use code FREEPD07 at checkout.
Link: http://foundationsinc.org/online-store/pdyourdesktop-demand
Blog Entries from www.languageandliteracy.org
As part of the series Reading for Life, Foundations' President and CEO Rhonda H. Lauer shares her expertise and insights about grade level reading. The following blog entries explore connections between literacy and digital learning.
Reading for Life: Teens, Tweens, and Technology
Excerpt: "Today's young people ages 8 to 18 years use entertainment media (computers, television, video games, etc.) an average of 53+ hours per week; that's 7 hours and 38 minutes every day. Instead of bemoaning such statistics, let's embrace this reality. Modern technology and digital media afford educators a unique opportunity to engage tweens and teens in more active, participatory learning. With technology, we can help young people follow their passions and interests, prepare for college and careers, and learn in real time along with like-minded peers living across the country or even across the globe."
Link: http://www.languageandliteracyforall.org/literacy/reading-for-life-tweens-teens-and-technology/
Reading for Life: Technology for Reading - It's Elementary!
Excerpt: "These schools are part of a national trend. The Thomas B. Fordham Institute reports that digital learning has quickly expanded in the United States in the past decade, from 40,000-50,000 students in 2000 to an estimated 3 million students in 2010. Convincing young children to use the devices is easy; most are already familiar with them, intrigued by them, and excited to use them. As a recent report from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop notes, the challenge comes in ensuring that the educational applications they use are high-quality and developmentally appropriate, sustain their interest, and engage them in learning."
Link: http://www.languageandliteracyforall.org/featured/reading-for-life-technology-for-reading-%e2%80%93-it%e2%80%99s-elementary/
Reading for Life: Entertainment Media
Excerpt: "Kids of all ages, even preschoolers, love electronic and digital media: video games, the Apple i's (Pod, Phone, Touch, Pad), television, computers. As I noted in an earlier blog, youth spend, on average, more than 7 ½ hours a day, seven days a week, interacting with media. That's a lot of time. The Joan Ganz Cooney Center and the 2011 Leadership Forum embrace this youthful affinity for technology and seek to use it for good, to enhance literacy and learning."
Link: http://www.languageandliteracyforall.org/literacy/reading-for-life-entertainment-media/
Downloadable PDFs
Communication Satisfaction Survey
Use or adapt this form to determine how well you are communicating with your community and/or constituents.
Link: http://www.foundationsinc.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/Communication-Sat...
Knowing Your Community
Link: http://www.foundationsinc.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/KnowingYourCommun...
Community Group Involvement Checklist
Use this tool with program staff and/or the program's advisory group to help brainstorm ways to promote more investment.
Link: http://www.foundationsinc.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/LPA-tools.pdf
Matching Program Needs with Potential Assets
Record possible resources, groups with applicable assets, and steps and timelines for establishing partnerships
Link: http://www.foundationsinc.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/Matching-Program-...
Partnerships for Learning: Promising Practices in Integrating School and Out-of-School Time Program Supports
This report aims is to share with OST program leaders, decision-makers, funders, and schools lessons from successful efforts to forge partnerships between schools and OST programs to support children's learning and development.
Link: http://www.foundationsinc.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/OST-Partnershipsf...
Sample Volunteer Skills Grid
Excerpt handout from Afterschool Style in Practice: 25 Skill-Building Meetings for Staff
Link: http://www.foundationsinc.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/Sample-Volunteer-...
Volunteer Job Description
Excerpt handout from Afterschool Style in Practice: 25 Skill-Building Meetings for Staff
Link: http://www.foundationsinc.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/Volunteer-Job-Des...
Deepening Connections: Teachers Increasingly Rely on Media and Technology
Report written by PBS based on the survey conducted by Grunwald Associates LLC
Link: http://www.foundationsinc.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/Teachers-ncreasin...
Click and Go Games
Print and go activities for kids and staff.
Link: http://foundationsinc.org/afterschooled/free-resources/click-go-games
Links from the Web
Classroom 2.0
Social media network for teachers interested in technology in education
Link: http://www.classroom20.com/
The US Dept. of Ed Office of Educational Technology
Link: http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/os/technology/index.html
International Society for Technology in Education
Link: http://www.iste.org/welcome.aspx