Monthly Webinars
Join us for free professional development! Beyond School Hours may be once a year, but we keep the learning going all year long with our monthly webinar series.
Our webinar series features some of your favorite presenters from past and upcoming conferences, plus other special guests. We cover a wide range of topics with something for everyone. You won’t want to miss this!
Keeping Kids Safe Online
Wednesday, October 14, 2026 | 3:00–4:00 PM ET
From social media and gaming to AI-powered tools, young people are spending more of their lives online — and keeping them safe isn’t just about limiting screen time anymore. It’s about preparing them to participate responsibly in a digital world.
In this interactive session, we’ll explore digital citizenship, cyberbullying prevention, online privacy, and media literacy through an SEL lens, using trusted, free resources you can put to work in your program right away. Expect live polling, group discussion, and hands-on practice evaluating real online content.
This session is built for youth development professionals who want practical, ready-to-use strategies for helping students navigate digital spaces safely, responsibly, and confidently.
- Digital citizenship skills tied to digital footprints, online privacy, and healthy digital relationships (Common Sense Education Framework)
- SEL-based strategies for preventing and responding to cyberbullying and online conflict (CASEL + Cyberbullying Research Center)
- Free, ready-to-use tools — Be Internet Awesome, ConnectSafely, FTC Net Cetera, and the SIFT media literacy protocol
Meet Your Presenter
Alicia Park is an Education Specialist in the Office of Professional Learning at Foundations, Inc., where she oversees project implementation, designs and facilitates professional development, and strengthens partnerships with schools, districts, and community organizations. Prior to Foundations, Alicia led national expansion and professional learning for a nationwide program empowering middle school girls through technology education and OST experiences. She brings more than a decade of experience in teaching, OST programming, nonprofit partnership management, and professional learning, with particular focus on digital citizenship, youth development, and SEL.
🔗 Register for free via Zoom here.
The $17 Billion Opportunity: Are You IRL Ready?
Wednesday, November 4, 2026 | 3:00–4:00 PM ET
A Free Diagnostic for Schools, Expanded Learning and Youth-Serving Organizations to Identify Gaps and Prepare for Meta Settlement Funding
About This Session
With the historic $17 billion Meta settlement creating new attention — and potential investment — in afterschool, summer learning, mental wellness, and real-life experiences for young people, now is an important time for youth-serving organizations to understand what they already do well and where greater investment could make a difference.
In this free webinar, we’ll explore the growing importance of IRL learning and whole-child, human-centered approaches. We’ll briefly unpack the Meta settlement and what it could mean for the youth-serving field. Then, participants will get a first look at a new IRL Program Readiness Diagnostic*, designed to help organizations assess current strengths, uncover gaps, and identify areas where additional resources could deepen their impact.
You’ll leave with a clearer understanding of where your programs are strong, where they need to grow, and what data and stories you should begin collecting now to prepare for emerging Meta settlement funding opportunities in your state.
BONUS! Every attendee gets early access to the free beta diagnostic tool and five (no-cost) IRL magic moment activities!
*This is not a Meta funding eligibility tool. It is a program-strength and readiness tool that can help organizations better understand and articulate what they have, what they need and where future investment could have the greatest impact.
🔗 Register for free via Zoom here.
Past Webinars
The Future of Enrichment: Helping Every Instructor Teach Like an Expert
Monday, the instructor is teaching paleontology. Wednesday, it’s coding. Friday, it’s engineering. They never studied fossils or coding, but there’s a one-page lesson plan and twenty kids counting on them to make it interesting.
Sound familiar? This is life for so many afterschool instructors, and it’s not because they’re not good at their jobs. It’s because they’ve been asked to become instant experts in everything, overnight, with almost no support beyond a page of instructions.
Join us LIVE for a 45-minute workshop where our friends Judy Nee, CEO of AlphaBEST Education, and Brian Heaton, President of AB Studios, reframe this challenge entirely. Drawing on experience across hundreds of programs, they’ll walk you through a new instructional model in real time, live and interactive, that pairs subject experts and a studio production team with on-screen content hosts, freeing instructors to step out of the spotlight and do what they do best: coach, guide, and celebrate the wins.
Making Homework Work: The Free Homework Toolkit
Homework time doesn’t have to be a battle. Join us for a hands-on session where we’re unpacking the FREE Foundations, Inc. Homework Toolkit, your new go-to resource for turning homework help into a highlight of your afterschool program. We’ll dig into what actually motivates students to get their homework done, and walk through the toolkit’s best practices for math and literacy support across all age groups.Leading With Confidence: Practical Skill-Building for Girls
When girls believe in their own power, everything changes. Join us for a live workshop hosted by Lean In Girls, a free, research-backed leadership curriculum that equips girls with the skills, confidence, and community they need to lead in the classroom and beyond.
The Web of Sustainability: Part 4
Your program’s future doesn’t rest on one person. It rests on every staff member who shows up, builds trust, and carries the mission forward. Whether you’re a program director or a frontline staff member, this final session in our 4-part series shows you how everyone plays a part in sustaining impact.
Web of Sustainability Part 3
You’re doing the work. But can you clearly demonstrate the impact to the people who fund it, support it, and decide its future?What’s Shaping the Upcoming Year in After School?
Join Arux for a live panel featuring after school leaders from across the country as they share the initiatives driving their work this upcoming school year. These leaders represent unique programs from across the country, offering a rich range of perspectives on innovation, operations, and what it means to serve students and families every day.
Syncing Systems: Powering Youth Success Through Cross-Sector Collaboration
In this interactive workshop, we’ll dig into key funding and policy opportunities that align systems and create sustainable, youth-centered pathways from the classroom to the workforce.
Better Basics: Top Questions from BSH
Join us for another episode in our Better Basics series as we answer the most frequently asked questions from the Beyond School Hours 2026 conference.
Mid-Summer Energizer Activities
Feeling the mid-summer slump? Reignite the energy in your program with 12 interactive, youth-driven activities that spark curiosity, creativity, and collaboration. This session will equip you with grab-and-go ideas to keep momentum high through the final stretch of summer.
Your Youth Engagement Check-Up
Is your program truly engaging youth, or just keeping them busy? Discover how to assess and strengthen youth engagement by fostering connection, motivation, and meaningful participation. Walk away with fresh ideas to energize your approach!
Better Basics: Career & Technical Education
Join us for another webinar in our Better Basics series where we interview experts in career and technical education (CTE) about how OST programs can equip students with the skills, certifications, and industry knowledge needed for success. You ask questions and they’ll answer them. Start thinking about questions you have on interviewing, mentoring, and developing industry-specific skills and gain insights into assessment methods that measure student progress and prepare them for the future.