AFTERSCHOOL RESOURCES 

       

After School Matters is looking for volunteers with experience in science, technology, art, writing, sports, or youth development to assist with the critical task of reviewing and scoring proposals for the Summer 2015, Fall 2015 and Spring 2016 teen programs. These program proposals are submitted to ASM by potential instructors and include a synopsis of what they plan to teach, as well as accompanying activities and goals they have for the teens in their program.
 
This volunteer opportunity is completely web-based and can be performed anywhere a volunteer has internet access. Each volunteer will be assigned 5-6 proposals, and we estimate that the total time commitment to score those proposals will be approximately 6-7 hours total. The review process will begin on November 17, 2014 and will go until December 5, 2014.

Those interested in volunteering should contact
Courtney Calero, courtney.calero@afterschoolmatters.org ASM Development and Volunteer Coordinator, and Janet Wakefield janet@thejourneyonline.org

My Brother's Keeper Community Challenge
The My Brother's Keeper Community Challenge is a call to action for cities, Tribal Nations, towns, and counties to build and execute robust plans to ensure that all young people-no matter who they are, where they come from, or the circumstances into which they are born-can achieve their full potential. http://www.mbkchallenge.org/ 

Youth Development and Attainment Certification Program at Harrison College
Through innovative online course delivery, taught by Harvard educated child psychologist and anthropologist Andrew J. Schneider-Munoz, Ed.D.,  CYC-P, you will have the opportunity to increase your knowledge of positive youth development across different practice settings. The Youth Development and Attainment certification program meets both today's demand for flexible schedules and the core competencies needed for successful completion of the national certification examination. Visit www.cyccb.org to learn more about national certification requirements.

DCODIA is an Indianapolis-based company that has created an application aimed to help students living with dyslexia read. DCODIA works with iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad and gives the user the ability to select a single word in a body of text and have it read aloud. If you or your student would like to try DCODIA, you can do so for free for a limited time. Signup at www.dcodia.com

PRISM is a free website that provides collections of online resources for Indiana educators in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The primary collection of digital teaching materials is indexed according to the Indiana Academic Standards and Common Core Standards for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade and secondary education courses.  We have also added the new College and Career Ready Standards to our database, along with most K-12 content areas (outside of Science, Technology and Math).    Since our launch in 2003, our web-based collection of digital resources has grown to over 4,200 highly interactive materials.  We feature non-text teaching resources (such as simulations, scientific visualizations, virtual labs, collaborative skills builders, process modelers, serious gaming, and access to live data) that mirror the digital tools available in the modern workplace. We also freely offer the Moodle Learning Management System. Teachers (and afterschool providers) can create an online classroom environment where they can store their course's digital material for their students to access as well as administer assignments and quizzes.      Teachers (and afterschool providers) can share materials across this platform.  http://www.rose-prism.org/moodle  

Child Care & Early Education Research Connections provides a continually updated, free, and easily searchable collection of research on child care and early education for researchers and policymakers. The Web site, www.researchconnections.org  , provides access to more than 25,000 resources, including original scholarly research, government reports, factsheets and briefs, data sets, and instruments.