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WHAT are you thankful for? WHY are you thankful for those things that came to mind? If you are thankful for people in your life, do they know this? While we celebrate Thanksgiving this month, keep in mind that gratitude extends all year long and it is important to share this with those around you.
We want to share with you how thankful we are to be here to support you in your mission and vision and how much we appreciate all that you do to support children, youth, families, and communities that you serve.
Tia Quinn
Executive Director
BOOST Collaborative
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Join Our Twitter Chat on November 21st
6pm PT/9pm ET!
The #BOOSTChat is an opportunity for out-of-school and youth development educators to discuss hot topics in the field, network, and receive resources to better their work.
We will be discussing the benefits of unstructured time and alternative methods of education on student learning and how educators can model these methods in their own lives.
You can ask questions and follow the chat by using #BOOSTChat.
Panelists include Scott Barry Kaufman, PhD in Cognitive Psychology and author of Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined, Deb Sugerman, Senior National Trainer at Playworks, and Rebecca McMillan, Director of Online Education for the Gifted Homeschoolers Forum.
Please visit boostcollaborative.org/boostchat
for more information. Together we can make a difference!
  
BOOST Welcomes Kristie Dalesandro,
Event Coordinator!
Kristie Dalesandro
 Kristie Dalesandro is a Southern California native, growing up in sunny Orange County, CA. She graduated in 2012 with degree in communications from UC San Diego. Kristie is eager to join the BOOST Collaborative team and explore her passion for creating strong educational opportunities for underserved communities while also serving professionals in the space. After college, Kristie moved to Washington, DC to work for the NAACP Economic Department. While there, Kristie communicated with units across the country to address their needs and facilitated financial education workshops. She also managed economic resources such as toolkits, reports, and strategies to provide comprehensive financial education measures to leaders, units, and individuals... Read more
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Program Highlight
Digital Harbor Foundation
Baltimore, MD
Forty years ago, Baltimore City had more than 150 Rec Centers. Two years ago, the Mayor slated half of the city's remaining 50 Rec Centers to close down. The Digital Harbor Foundation has a vision and a solution to this precipitous drop of funding support. Andrew Coy, the Executive Director of DHF and former high school educator, highlighted in a recenter conversation with Boot Collaborative, "Rec Centers filled an important economic imperative in an industrial economy -- they provided extended day care for factory workers on second shift and promoted physical fitness which in turn aided factories looking for able-bodied workers. The problem in Baltimore is that we don't have the factories we used to have. The City's Rec Centers therefore simply became a line-item to be cut."
By transforming a Rec Center into a Tech Center, however, the Digital Harbor Foundation has created an engine of future economic growth for the region's tech economy. Youth in the after-school and summer-time programs run by DHF learn 21st-Century skills such as web programming, app development, digital design, 3D printing, and much more! As part of the inaugural year of the Maker Education Initiative, DHF ran a series of "MakerCamps" this summer for youth. More than 80% of the 90+ youth who logged 5,600+ hours of "making" were on full or partial scholarship.
The Digital Harbor Foundation is looking to increase that and just launched a crowd-funding campaign to raise scholarship money for youth. In their first week they have raised more than $4,000 but still have a ways to go to reach their goal of $20,250! Learn more about their work and help out Baltimore City youth as they become the next generation digital workers, entrepreneurs, and makers! Visit rally.org/DigitalHarbor
Submitted by:
Andrew Coy
Executive Director
Digital Harbor Foundation
Baltimore, MD
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Annette Santana
Onsite Coordinator
Organized Parents Make a Difference, Inc.
Hartford, CT
In 2005, after college, Annette was hired by OPMAD as a part-time program instructor. Even though her major was in Criminal Justice her real love was always the arts, specifically music and dance. Her supervisor quickly realized what a unique gem she is. Annette shared her passion for the arts in creative ways with all different age groups of students. Her ability to organize, connect with the students and parents made her the obvious choice when the Site Coordinator position became available. She has been the Site Coordinator at that same school for 7 years.
Annette is a hands-on supervisor. She is very involved in all aspects of her program as well as managing and supporting 9 part-time employees 5 days a week. But, her passion doesn't end at 6:00 p.m. She just wrapped up her 7th annual family Haunted House. It takes many volunteers, in most cases entire families, to offer this goulash activity for her students and the community. She offers parent discussions, adult Zumba, family science nights, family literacy nights, plus activities in partnership with our State's Mystic aquarium. She has made it her mission to offer the kids and their families activities that will help them grow, succeed, and excel.
Annette's life doesn't begin and end with her OPMAD activities. She has twin two year olds at home and her 8 year old daughter attends a Montessori School where Annette is a very active parent. She serves on the school's PTA and School Governance Council. Her energy level puts us all to shame!
Annette is a fine example of OPMAD's mission. OPMAD is an organization founded by parents of children in Hartford needing a safe enriching environment during after-school hours.
To learn more about Organized Parents Make a Difference, Inc., please click here.
Submitted by:
Sharon Tripp
Executive Director
Organized Parents Make a Difference, Inc.
Hartford, CT
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NEW: BOOST Gear Shop
Now on Square Market
The BOOST Collaborative Gear Shop is now on the Square Market! Check out our fresh new look and pick up some cool BOOST Swag!
 
Click here to purchase your BOOST gear today!
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BOOST Breakfast Club
Click on blog title to read more!  
Young People in Afterschool Programs Leading Efforts to Improve School Attendance
Blog written by:
Hedy Chang, Attendance Works
San Francisco, CA
Ellie Mitchell, Maryland Out-of-School Time Network
Baltimore, MD
Playing in the Leaves
Blog written by:
ElizaBeth Phillips
Program Development Director
Child Development, Inc.
Sacramento, CA
Valuing Children's Artwork
Blog written by:
Anna Reyner
Director of Training & So. California Account Manager
Discount School Supply
Los Angeles, CA
Allegiance
Blog written by:
Steve Amick
Director of Policy and Partnerships
THINK Together
We're always looking for new bloggers. Please contact Kristin at kristin@boostcollaborative.org
for more information on how to join this amazing group of bloggers today!
To view other Breakfast Club Blogs click here.
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When S is More than Just an S
At MindWorks Resources, we know how kids learn...and it's through fun!
Our subscription-based curriculum supports learning in reading, language, math, art, social studies, and science. This is an experiment modified from our latest unit, Sticky Situations!
Prep time: 5 minutes or less
Activity time: 15 minutes
Grade Level: All levels
Group Size: Large group (10 or more) Environment: Indoors or Outdoors
Objective: Students will understand that water has dissolving powers! Water molecules insert themselves between sugar molecules. Eventually, all the sugar molecules are separated by water molecules, and the sugared candy dissolves...or does it?
Materials Needed: 8 small to medium size cups, water, large bag of M&M candies, large bag of regular (not sour) Skittles candies
Directions:
Divide students into four groups.
Give each group the following materials:
- 2 cups with cool or room temperature water in each
- Several M&M candies
- Several Skittles candies
Provide students with the following instructions for conducting the experiment:
- Drop the M&M candies into a cup of water, logo side up.
- Do not stir the water or shake the cup.
- Observe the candy. What happens to the M&Ms in the water?
(The candy coating eventually dissolves. The water turns colors.)
- Drop the Skittles candies into the second cup of water, logo side up.
- Do not stir the water or shake the cup.
- Ask students, "What do you think will happen?"
(Students will probably say the Skittles will dissolve and the water will turn colors, like the M&Ms did.)
- Observe what happens to the Skittles.
(While the candy dissolves, the S, made from an edible ink that does not dissolve in water, floats to the top.)
- When the "ooohs" and "aaaahs" subside, explain to students the chemical reaction: Dissolving is a chemical reaction that takes place when a solid - like sugar - is mixed with a liquid. Do you think the 'S' on the Skittles is made of sugar? Why or why not? (No, because if the 's' was made of sugar, it would have dissolved.)
- Tell students: The white letters on Skittles are printed with an edible ink that does not dissolve in water. When the rest of the candy shell begins to dissolve in the water, the letters peel off and float to the top.
- Students sparked by this experiment may ask, "What about (another type of candy)?" Be ready for many dissolving experiments that help students understand that water dissolves - or breaks apart - sugar molecules!
Submitted by:
Terri Marini
Director of Product Development
MindWorks Resources
Coppell, TX
To learn more about MindWorks, click here.
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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Deadline: January 31, 2014
The Find Your Balance Challenge is open to elementary school classrooms in grades K-5 and rewards student teams for taking steps toward achieving Energy Balance in your own school communities. Winning schools have a chance to win a $30,000 Grand Prize Grant. One Second Place winning class will receive a $10,000 grant. One Third Place school will receive a $5,000 grant. Applications will be accepted from August 27, 2013 until January 31, 2014.
Deadline: February 28, 2014
With support from the National PTA, schools and communities across the nation have the opportunity to apply for a number of grants and other prizes to help them implement a health initiative at their school. Overall, the Smart from the Start program will award a total of $500,000 in grants, training and awards to eligible schools. The winning preschool will be awarded $20,000 and ten runners-up will each receive $2,500. Early childhood education centers and schools with a Pre-K program are eligible to apply.
Childhood Obesity Rapid Response Fund
Deadline: Rolling
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the American Heart Association, and a team of experts from across the childhood obesity movement have teamed up through the Childhood Obesity Rapid Response Fund. The mission of the fund is to make effective strategic investments in ongoing state, local, and tribal public policy campaigns in order to increase public policy impact on healthy weight and living among children. This funding is mostly targeted at passage of new public policy, however proposals for defense of existing critical policy as well as addressing policy implementation deficiencies are also eligible. Grants will be made only to non-profit organizations. A phone consultation prior to submitting a step-one application is required.
PeyBack Foundation Grant
Deadline: February 3, 2014
The PeyBack Foundation is a nonprofit organization established to assist programs that provide leadership and growth opportunities for at-risk children. Emphasis is placed on programs that have a direct benefit to children through relationships and activities, specifically programs intended to enrich the lives of disadvantaged youth through activities conducted outside the typical school day. Activities include healthy living, mentoring, and leadership skills. Multiple grants averaging $10,000 will be awarded to selected applicants. Nonprofit organizations serving economically disadvantaged youth between ages 6 and 18 in Indiana, Louisiana, Tennessee, and the Denver metro area are eligible to apply.
To see more funding opportunities, click here.
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November 7,2013
HeraldNet
Click here to read more news!
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CSBA Summer Learning and Wellness Resource Guide
The complete 124-series in an interactive graphic format. The CSBA Summer Learning and Wellness Resource Guide provides information on the effects of summer learning loss, successful characteristics of summer programs, case studies and much more. The guide also details how boards can provide leadership and funding for summer programs.
To read this guide, click here.
2013 CASEL Guide: Effective Social and Emotional Learning Programs-Preschool and Elementary Edition
The 2013 CASEL Guide: Effective Social and Emotional Learning Programs-Preschool and Elementary Editionprovides a systematic framework for evaluating the quality of classroom-based SEL programs. It uses this framework to rate and identify well-designed, evidence-based SEL programs with potential for broad dissemination to schools across the United States. The primary goal of the Guide is to give educators information for selecting and implementing SEL programs in their districts and schools. It also documents the significant advances the SEL field has made in the past decade, establishes new and more rigorous standards for SEL program adoption, and provides suggestions for next steps for SEL research and practice.
Leveling the Playing Field: Community Schools Confront Poverty to Improve Student Success
This report explores an approach to combating the achievement gap between poor children and higher-income peers using the community schools model. Community schools confront poverty and education together by partnering with the community to provide critical resources for students and families. From after school to health clinics to parent education programs, community schools level the playing field and empower youth to take the first steps toward a brighter future.
To read more about this research, click here.
 
The First Eight Years Policy Report
This report by The Annie E. Casey Foundation, released in partnership with Children Now, shows lifetime trajectory shaped in the earliest years, so the state should invest more in early childhood development.
Highlighting nearly half (49%) of California's 0- to 8-year olds now live in low-income households, the report found large numbers of at-risk young children also are not receiving critical supports and preventive services they need to succeed in school and beyond.
 
To read more about this research, click here.
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Get Connected
BOOST Yourself!
CONNECT with the out-of-school time field and join the conversation by connecting with us online through Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Skype, LinkedIn and Flickr.
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SPONSOR an out-of-school time professional or become a sponsor at one of our conferences or events.
SUPPORT the efforts of BOOST Collaborative by making a donation to the BOOST Scholarship Fund or shop online through one of our affiliate programs- all of the proceeds go directly to the BOOST Scholarship Fund.
ADVOCATE for out-of-school time programs and keep the lights on and doors open for youth during the critical hours!
Learn more here.
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Contact Us
BOOST Collaborative
*Please note new mailing address below.
1286 University Avenue #739
San Diego, CA 92103
619-23-BOOST
(619-232-6678)
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Save the Dates: BOOST Conference 2014, 2015, & 2016
Click here to download your Save-the-Date
Join the nation's largest, most recognized and comprehensive conference for after school and out-of-school time professionals. Set in a retreat-like atmosphere, this extraordinary event will rejuvenate your passion and boost your direction for quality programming. Make sure not to miss BOOST Conference 2014! Mark your calendars today.
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November Poll
Geography Awareness week is November 17-23!
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DEADLINE TO VOTE: November 15th
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National Homeless Youth Awareness Month
November is National Homeless Youth Awareness Month. As educators, we play a significant role in supporting this positive movement. Click here for more resources and ways you can get involved.
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Free Webinar: Building Better Writers (without picking up a pen)
Presenter: Beth Rogowsky, Ed.D.
Length: 45 minutes
Learning to write is one of the most cognitively demanding academic activities a student must perform. It is not surprising that many students struggle to perfect and improve their writing abilities throughout their academic years. Nearly 3/4 of both 12th and 8th grade students are not proficient writers (NAEP, 2011). In this webinar, learn from teacher-turned-researcher, Dr. Rogowsky, about a randomized control field trial that found that computer-based instruction intended to improve cognitive skills transferred to improvement in sixth grade students' writing skills.
Listen to the webinar here!
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Planet BOOST
Going somewhere exotic or unusual this holiday season? Take a picture in your BOOST Gear, and email it to inspire@boostcollaborative.org and you could see yourself here!
 Derrick Price
Photo Taken: Function First, San Diego, CA, November 2013
 Eddie Garcia
District Afterschool Coordinator, Lennox School District
Photo Taken: Millennium Park, Chicago, IL, October 2013
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Words, words, words are what you need for effective communication. Start right from the beginning and master them all! The 2000+ words become more difficult with each passing quiz. Audio is included to help with pronunciation. Mix things up with the unscramble game!
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The BOOST 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
Positive Adventures Camps, Team Building
San Diego, CA
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Join the BOOST Vendor Fair
The BOOST Vendor Fair is an online community providing out-of-school time professionals access to browse a wide variety of products and services to enhance their programs.
Click here to browse through the Vendor Fair.
One time fee of $395.00 for an unlimited listing of your profile.
Special rate for non-profits!
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BOOST Speaker's Corner
The BOOST 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
Alex KajitaniCalifornia Teacher of the Year
Kajitani Education
Carlsbad, CA
www.AlexKajitani.com
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Stop! Get Your Geometry On!
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Inspired by the Rappin' Mathematician, Alex Kajitani, at the 2013 BOOST Conference, Mike Ashcraft from Children's Choice Child Care Services, Inc and his team created Stop! Get Your Geometry On!
Take a Look!
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Join the BOOST Speakers Corner
Join the BOOST Speakers Corner to take advantage of the opportunity to promote your consulting, training and speaking services to thousands of out-of-school time professionals. It's easy, inexpensive and a great way to market your expertise. Create a profile and get your name out there!
Click here to browse and join the Speakers Corner. One time fee of $395.00 for an unlimited listing of your profile. Special rate for non-profits!
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BOOSTOPEDIA
In a meeting and unsure of acronyms related to Nutrition?
Click here to decipher AA, Ca, Fe, and other popular nutrition related terms!
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Free Downloads
Download FREE BOOST Collaborative wallpaper for your desktop!
Click here to view more wallpaper and download them for your desktop.
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BOOST Boot Camp
Are you planning any back-to-school training opportunities for your staff?
Host a BOOST Boot Camp and take your program to the next level.
BOOST Boot Camp includes your choice in a series of workshops in the focus areas listed below:
- Academic Enrichment
- Enrichment Elements
- Building Relationships
- Program Environment
- Program Fundamentals
- Older Youth
View a full list of available training topics.
We will be in several cities around the U.S. We would love to stop by your city!
If you would like to schedule a BOOST Boot Camp in your area, please contact Tia Quinn at tia@boostcollaborative.org
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Did You Know?
There are 1.7 million homeless youth in the United States.
For more resources on Homeless and Runaway Youth, visit the BOOST Resource Center here.
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