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Dear BOOSTers,
Many of you started your programs in August, while this week is the second week back to school for others.
Remember to set the tone by creating a positive climate of acceptance and safety. If you don't set the tone, the students will do it for you! It is important to set polices and procedures and have your entire team on the same page. Consistency is vital for program success. Once you set up policies and procedures determine how you will reinforce individual student behavior. Remember to focus on what students CAN do instead of what students CANNOT do by giving them choices and empowering them.
Need more tips on Program Management and Positive Discipline? We would love to come to your program and provide a half-day or all-day training on these topics. Please contact Tia Quinn for more information tia@boostcollaborative.org.
Thank you for all of the work you do to support children, youth, families, and communities. 
Tia Quinn Executive Director BOOST Collaborative San Diego, CA |
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Sponsor of the Month:
You Can Do the Rubik's Cube
Excite students about MATH and STEM while teaching COMMON CORE, NATIONAL and STATE STANDARDS!
 In response to teacher's requests, the You Can Do the Rubik's Cube Math Education Kit was created. Learning to do the Rubik's Cube builds self-esteem and boosts confidence while supporting 21st Century Learning Skills such as problem solving, critical thinking and perseverance. The You CAN Do the Rubik's Cube Math Education Kit provides everything you need to teach youth how to solve the Rubik's Cube and provides a range of Lesson Plans, Activities, Homework Sheets with answers that support Geometry, Algebra and General Math, and STEM. Lesson are appropriate for Grades 3 - 12. Visit their site and register as a teacher to download all their support materials for FREE. Once students learn how to solve the Rubik's Cube, they will want to compete. They provide you with all the details and information needed to start a team, hold a competition and find one in your area. Have your own competition and post to our site and they will send you a FREE Competition Prize Pack, including medals and certificates.
Visit their site today www.YouCanDoTheCube.com |
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Program Highlight
LA's BEST - BritWeek's Joy of Reading Book Club and Essay Contest
For eight LA's BEST students, their essays for BritWeek's "The Joy of Reading Book Club and Essay Contest" won them an amazing all expenses-paid trip to London, England. The Joy of Reading Book Club and Essay Contest was designed as a way to introduce students in LA's BEST After School Enrichment Program to classic British children's literature. As part of the Joy of Reading, students at 84 LA's BEST sites formed "Classic British Book Clubs" and chose titles from a long list of children's classics written by British authors. The books were then read aloud by both students and adult staff to expose all children in the clubs to the stories.
After completing the book, the students wrote essays about which character they most identified with in the story. Before the contest began, students were informed that there was a very exciting prize for contest winners, but were not told it was a trip to London. From the participating schools, there were more than 450 submissions, which were narrowed down to the top eight winners.
In London, the students visited Buckingham Palace, rode on the famous London Eye, toured the Tower of London, saw the musicals The Wizard of Oz and Shrek the Musical, attended a reception at London's City Hall with Mayor Boris Johnson, and much more.
 To learn more about the trip and LA's BEST,
click here.
Click here to read the winning essays. See photos from the trip. Do you know of an outstanding out-of-school time program? Send recommendations to
inspire@boostcollaborative.org |
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Program Highlight
ARTastic Camp 2011
This summer Voila Art hosted it's second annual ARTastic summer camp in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. The camp ran for five weeks and engaged 35 kids in art classes. Each week the class focused on a specific age group with age-appropriate art activities.
 One week, kids learned about Georgia O'Keeffe and studied her paintings, and then painted their own pastel flowers inspired by O'Keeffe's famous flower paintings. Another week, kids learned about one-point perspective and different techniques to paint perspective in their works. They used that knowledge to paint a boat that was docked in the bay.
 Over the summer, the kids worked with a variety of mediums, from oil paints to water color pencils. Each day the kids took a break by going on an "adventure walk" through the nearby woods to the water. The kids learned that if they could draw a square, triangle, circle, oval, and squiggly line, they could draw anything!
To see more photos from the Voila ARTastic Summer Camp, click here.
Do you know of an outstanding out-of-school time program? Send recommendations to inspire@boostcollaborative.org
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 BOOST Buzz
Meet the New
Breakfast Club Bloggers
The BOOST Collaborative is pleased to have several new bloggers join the BOOST Breakfast Club. We are pleased to welcome Theresa Fox with What Every Child Needs, Shawn Petty with Edvance Research, Brad Lupien with Champions, Jessie Singer with the Dysart Community Center, and former BOOST intern Keighty Lautz with Amigos de UCLA. We are so excited to have them share their unique perspectives that add a distinct voice to the out-of-school time field.
The BOOST Breakfast Club is a collective space where our bloggers write on a continual basis about a variety of topics relevant to the out-of-school time field. We welcome bloggers from around the world who want to share their personal thoughts and voice and tell us what they ate for breakfast!
To read blogs in the BOOST Breakfast Club, click here. Click here to learn more about the Breakfast Club bloggers. |
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BOOST Professional Development
Request for Proposals
The BOOST Collaborative is accepting RFPs for both the 2011 Healthy Behaviors Conference and the 2012 BOOST Conference.
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September Facebook Contest
Promising Practices for the New School Year
We want to here what new practices you are implementing this school year. Tell us on our Facebook wall something innovative or different you plan to do with your program or students to make your program excel.
One lucky person who posts on our Facebook page will win this 1/4 CT diamond necklace from Zales. Winner will be selected at random.
Contest begins September 15, 2011 at 8am PST and ends September 26, 2011 at 5pm PST.
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 Staff Highlight Maria Bringas
Program Coordinator
After-School All-Stars
San Diego, CA
Maria is a long time After-School All-Stars volunteer who recently joined our staff as a Program Coordinator. Maria is currently studying Child Development at San Diego State University and is scheduled to graduate this May. She has experience working with at risk youth for the past 4 years and she loves her job. As the Program Coordinator, Maria is responsible for managing staff and after school activities, relationship building and collaborating effectively with school administrators, instructors, parents and community partnerships. Maria is very enthusiastic and her energy is infectious. She motivates the staff to go above and beyond their job duties and gives them the opportunity to develop out-of-the-box, fun, interactive curriculum. Maria is well connected within the San Diego community which allows her to bring resources and opportunities to the neediest communities. After-School All-Stars is happy and excited to have Maria as an addition to our team and we are looking forward to the school year.
Photo: Maria and students with Kobe Bryant at Kobe Camp in Santa Barbara in July 2011
Submitted by: Joelle Felton Operations Manager After-School All-Stars San Diego, CA
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Youth Activity
Soilless Pinto Bean Experiement
This is an easy experiment to conduct with your students, grades K-5. The whole experiment can last up to two weeks, but requires little time each day.
Materials needed (per student): 2 pinto beans 1 paper towel sheet 1 ziplock sandwich bag
Instructions: 1. Wet the paper towel with water. Ring out the excess water. 2. Fold the 2 pinto beans into the wet paper towel. 3. Place the paper towel and pinto beans in the ziplock bag. Seal the bag. 4. Leave the bag sealed for one to two weeks.
When students open the bag, they will see that their beans have sprouted. This experiment shows students that it is possible for plants to grow without soil. During the one to two week process, have students write their observations. What did the beans look like before they were placed in the bag? What is happening inside the bag while it is sealed? What do the beans look like at the end of the experiment?
Submitted by: Jenny Morales 1st grade teacher America's Finest Charter School San Diego, CA
Do you have a youth activity that is fun, engaging, and easy to implement? Let us know about it and we may feature it here! Email inspire@boostcollaborative.org |
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Breakfast Club featured blog
Love in Your Voice
By Chad Furlong
Founder & President
iTHINK
San Diego, CA
"It's not always easy to be yourself. Maybe you can relate to this. I'm in a café with a cup of tea. It's funny actually. There's a trendy wooden table beside me.
As I sit to write the first words of this blog project, in my head I hear the voices of writers I'm reading and speaker types famous for dumb one-liners. They are a crowded group in a room somewhere in my brain, an indecipherable rumble. 'No Chad. Be you. Find your voice. Don't write like them.'"
Click here to read the rest of Chad's blog.
To view other blog entries, click here. |
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Lights on Afterschool - October 20
Afterschool Alliance
The 12th annual Lights on Afterschool event will be held this year on October 20, 2011. Join 1 million Americans and 7,500+ communities nationwide in celebrating the afterschool programs that keep our kids safe, inspire them to learn and help working families.
The Afterschool Alliance is kicking off this year's celebration on Oct. 2 in Washington, D.C., at the CapCrit, the bike racing championship on the National Mall. They will be getting the afterschool message out, while getting some healthy activity in. Afterschool youth will race bikes, learn about healthy activities and check out BMXers.
Get your program involved with Lights on Afterschool with this year's contest, Light Up a Landmark. What are your plans to shine a spotlight on the importance of afterschool in your community? Tell us what landmark you can light up for Lights On Afterschool, and you may win up to $5,000 from longtime afterschool champion jcpenney. Eleven (11) winners will be selected nationwide. One winner will receive $5,000, and another ten schools will receive $1,000. The deadline to enter is September 23, 2011. Don't miss your chance to Light Up a Landmark. For more information on the contest, click here.
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Research
Strategy Guide: Collecting and Using Information to Strengthen Citywide
Out-of-School Time Systems
This guide, co-authored by the National League of Cities and Harvard Family Research Project, provides municipal leaders and their key partners with six strategies for collecting and using information to strengthen citywide out-of-school time (OST) systems.
The guide presents examples of how mayors, council members, and other municipal leaders across the country have implemented each strategy. Their efforts highlight the powerful role city leaders can play in supporting data collection at the program and city levels to improve the OST opportunities available in their cities and towns.
For more information and to read the full report, visit the Harvard Family Research Project website here.
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Research
After-School Programs for High School Students: An Evaluation of After School Matters
 A rigorous evaluation compares results for teens in Chicago's After School Matters apprentice-like program to results for similar students, finding statistically significant benefits for After School Matters students on some measures of youth development and reduced problem behaviors, but no differences in job skills or school performance. For more information, visit the Wallace Foundation website here. To view the full report, download the PDF here. |
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Funding and Grant Opportunities
NFL Play 60's Back to Football Friday
Deadline: September 22, 2011
As your classes resume in the fall, the NFL goes Back to Football. Your class or school can celebrate by showcasing your NFL team pride. The top 34 NFL Play 60 Super Schools that are selected based on their celebration of Back to Football Friday will receive a $10,000 NFL Play 60 health and wellness grant and an appearance by a local player who will lead students from your school in the ultimate physical education gym class - as part of the NFL Play 60 Initiative.
Kids in Need - Teacher Grants
Deadline: September 30, 2011
The purpose of this grant is to fund projects that make creative use of common teaching aids, approach curriculum from an imaginative angle, or tie nontraditional concepts together for the purpose of illustrating commonalities. Innovative and merit account for 40 percent of the evaluation. The grants fund K-12 certified teachers teaching in the subject of the project at a public, private, charter or parochial schools within the United States.
Rite Aid Foundation Grants
Deadline: October 1, 2011
The Rite Aid Foundation offers grants to programs that focus on health and wellness in communities where Rite Aids operate.
Dreamers Challenge Scholarship
Deadline: October 15, 2011
The California Museum dares to make your a mark on history! Take the 2011 Dreamers Challenge by telling them how your unique dream would change the world for a chance to win a $5,000 college scholarship & attendance at the 2011 California Hall of Fame.
To see more funding opportunities, click here.
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Out-of-School Time In the News
Los Angeles Times July 31, 2011
Los Angeles Times August 12, 2011
New York Times August 13, 2011
New York Times August 14, 2011
New York Times August 16, 2011 |
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Contact Us
BOOST Collaborative
1666 Garnet Avenue
PMB 126
San Diego, CA 92109
619-23-BOOST
(619-232-6678)
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BOOST Media
2010 Healthy Behaviors Conference Photos
View the photos from the 2010 Healthy Behaviors conference here.
Don't miss out on the 2011 Healthy Behaviors Conference,
December 7-9, 2011 in San Diego. Visit the conference site here for more information.
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Planet BOOST
Check out where BOOSTers are going in their BOOST t-shirts! Take a picture in your BOOST shirt and send it to us, then you'll be entered to win FREE conference registration! Visit the Gear Shop to purchase a t-shirt.
Erin Lieb
Senior Project Manager
Architects BP Associates
San Diego, CA
Photo: Manhattan Beach Creamery
Manhattan Beach, CA
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"America Adopts"
PSA Contest
Good news: You still have an opportunity to enter the Mutt-i-grees America Adopts PSA contest
and win the $10,000 grand prize! To enter, your school should create a two minute (or less) audio
or video Public Service Announcement (PSA) promoting adopting Mutt-i-grees or shelter pets.
There will be four regional winners, each receiving $1,500. The Grand Prize winning school will be chosen from the four regional winners
and will receive:
-$10,000 Grant
-A visit to the winning school by Cesar Millan, the host of National Geographic WILD Dog Whisperer series
-A trip for four (4) to a North Shore Animal League America event in New York City
-100 Mutt-i-grees T-Shirts.
The deadline is September 30, 2011. All schools serving students in any grade level between
PreK and 6 are eligible to enter. For official contest rules, click here.
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App of the Month:
Brain Toot
"Brain Toot Free" includes 4 brain training games to give your child a mental exercise to test their memory, math, visual and thinking skills for FREE.
This is a fun brain training app, filled with educational mini-games designed to exercise your neurons. Brain Toot, because it has some math games, is probably only suited for children who have reached a certain point in their schooling.
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Recess Revolution
Recess is back! Keen Footwear is hosting the Recess Revolution on September 14, 2011. Take back 10 minutes of your day to get outside and breathe the good air. Use Keen's Recess Toolkit to help you get started.  |
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August Contest Winner
Congratulations to the City of Fontanta!
Mariana Mitchell will be receiving a free BOOST t-shirt and BOOST water bottle for posting a job opening on the BOOST Career Corner.
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Speakers Corner
The Speakers Corner provides out-of-school time professionals access to a wide variety of speakers, consultants, coaches, and trainer that can help you enhance your programs. Browse through the Speakers Corner to learn more about services that can take your program to the next level. It is absolutely FREE to browse!
Speakers Corner Highlight
Dr. Andi Fletcher
Consultant
Center for Collaborative Solutions
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Vendor Fair
The Vendor Fair provides out-of-school time professionals access to a wide variety of products and services to enhance their programs. Browse through the Vendor Fair to learn more about the latest products and services for out-of-school time. It is absolutely FREE to use!
Vendor Fair Highlight
Nature-Watch
Academic Enrichment, Curriculum, and School Products
Agoura Hills, CA
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Free Resource Center
BOOST is proud to bring you free resources to enhance the quality of your out-of-school time program and professional development needs. We will be adding resources to this section on a quarterly basis.
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