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BOSTnet Quality Environments for Youth: BOSTnet Summer Series
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Thursday, June 11, 2009. Some form of academic assistance may indeed be needed over the summer, however, summer school has been around for almost as long as there has been the public institution of school. What is difficult now is that programs thrive being fun and engaging places and do not have the desire or often capacity to transform their program from what it is today into a program that can be better managed and analysed centrally. It seems that summer is itself almost like a project. Nicole Horton...
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BOSTnet Quality Environments for Youth: Summer Is Here, Again
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009. Summer Is Here, Again. It may be that all children benefit from great activities that make them think, meet new friends or engage with others in structured an unstructured ways. It would be a shame if inner-city children get a version of summer school while others get:. Trips to a zoo or visits by a nature program. Getting away to a camp for the day or a sleep away. Engaging in a project that involves trips to museums or cultural centers. Sports programs and athletics. Out-of-Schoo...
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BOSTnet Quality Environments for Youth: October 2008
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Thursday, October 16, 2008. Inclusion Series: ALL Means ALL. What do you get when you combine about 150 afterschool and out-of-school time providers, a couple legislators, a specialist in developmental pediatrics, innovative workshop presenters dedicated to inclusion, two Olympians and a real life Olympic Gold Medal? The 4th Annual All Means All Conference! 183; “Fantastic – keep the information coming! 183; “Very well organized”. 183; “Excellent”. 183; “Outstanding! Build the Out of School Time Network.
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BOSTnet Quality Environments for Youth: November 2008
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Thursday, November 20, 2008. Inclusion Series: Promoting Positive Behavior Survey. Based on our Promoting Positive Behavior Tool kit, developed by PEAR and BOSTnet, we are experimenting with a web-survey version. Please contribute to this work by taking this short on-line self assessment. We will contact participating programs with the results. Click Here to take survey. Build the Out of School Time Network. Wednesday, November 19, 2008. North Shore Roundtable Reflections. Did you go to school for that?
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BOSTnet Quality Environments for Youth: Quality is "Job One"?
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Wednesday, June 3, 2009. Quality is "Job One"? The days to the Quality Forum are short - the questions around "quality" as it relates to out-of-school time seem to grow. "Quality" is one of those terms that we hear a great many times - from corporations, from product salespeople, from former automotive giants. Whether " job one. Also, built into this question is other question. Who asks for this "quality.". And who asks for quality? Right now, in the moment. Each one of these elements may be measured in ...
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BOSTnet Quality Environments for Youth: July 2008
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Friday, July 25, 2008. We will be building this page about exciting news on BOSTnet activities. Build the Out of School Time Network. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). All Means All Conference. Quality Environments for Youth. Blog on all things afterschool! We hope you find value in our musings on what makes for quality OST environments, and we hope you will let your thoughts known by posting or commenting on something we have written that inspires or infuriates you. Thank you, BOST. BOSTnet Policy and Advocacy.
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BOSTnet Quality Environments for Youth: Learning in Out-of-School
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Monday, May 25, 2009. Project-based learning has been around for a long time. Many of the early progressive educators were indeed doing projects. The educational philosopher John Dewey. Was looking to make learning more real than the factory-style learning he saw about him. In the decades since, there has been innovation in teaching and learning inside and outside of the classroom. We learned to work together" one staff member said. However, did they now know that before the start of the activity? Was th...
