2025 50 State Afterschool Network Leaders Meeting: Full Schedule

10:45am MDT

Research & Data: Collecting Data for Impact Case Studies 1

Monday April 14, 2025 10:45am - 12:15pm MDT

What type of data should states be collecting to demonstrate impact? How are they collecting, organizing, and using data for policy, research, and quality improvement? This session will feature an in-depth look at Utah’s data collection systems providing inspiration and guidance for other states wanting to implement similar practices. Then, New Mexico will demonstrate the maps created from their program level data collection efforts. Finally, North Carolina will share how they used their state specific data as a powerful tool to help tell their afterschool impact stories in their Landscape Analysis.

Speakers

Terri Foulkes

Executive Director, Missouri AfterSchool Network

Terri Foulkes is the Network Lead for the Missouri AfterSchool Network. The Missouri AfterSchool Network builds systems across the state that improve, support, and sustain high quality afterschool programs.

Monday April 14, 2025 10:45am - 12:15pm MDT
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1:30pm MDT

Research & Data: Collecting Data for Impact Case Studies 2

Monday April 14, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm MDT

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What type of data should states be collecting to demonstrate impact? How are they collecting, organizing, and using data for policy, research, and quality improvement? This session will feature an in-depth look at Missouri’s data collection systems providing inspiration and guidance for other states wanting to implement similar practices. Then, Georgia will demonstrate the maps created from their program level data collection efforts, along with reports and materials featuring their BOOST grant data. Finally, Iowa will share how they used their state specific data as a powerful tool to help tell their afterschool impact stories in their State of Afterschool Research Report.

Speakers

Terri Foulkes

Executive Director, Missouri AfterSchool Network

Monday April 14, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm MDT
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3:30pm MDT

Network Share: Innovations in Professional Development

Monday April 14, 2025 3:30pm - 4:00pm MDT

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What Professional Development models and approaches have worked best coming out of Covid? How have the needs of the field changed and how have you been creative or thinking outside the box to respond? Two examples from Ignite: 1) In late 2023, Ignite Afterschool launched PDX (Professional Development Exchange)- a twist on typical PD design with a hybrid model that builds the capacity of afterschool site/program managers to coach, train and support their own direct service youth workers. 2) Young Nonprofit Leaders Club: a 7 month training cohort of young professionals (HS - 24) learning nonprofit management skills.

Speakers

Keem Anderson

Ignite Afterschool (Minnesota)

Po Eh

Ignite Afterschool (MN)

Hay Blute Paw

Ignite Afterschool (MN)

Monday April 14, 2025 3:30pm - 4:00pm MDT
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Network Share

4:15pm MDT

Network Share: Creating Professional Development Experiences and More Using the Iterative Design Process

Monday April 14, 2025 4:15pm - 4:45pm MDT

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As afterschool networks, we often create or facilitate professional learning experiences and educational materials. Yet many of us do not come from a background where we were taught to design for adult learners. In this network share, we will give you a crash course into the iterative design process and how it can be used to frame professional learning and support provided by your network.

Speakers

Christine Jones Monaccio

Professional Development and Quality Coordinator, Virginia Partnership for Out-of-School Time

Monday April 14, 2025 4:15pm - 4:45pm MDT
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Network Share

5:00pm MDT

Network Share: Elevating the OST Profession in Nevada

Monday April 14, 2025 5:00pm - 5:30pm MDT

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This sharing session will highlight the recent work being done in Nevada around quality, including the newly released Out-of-School Time Professional Pathways Certification, revised quality standards, and a technical assistance program.

Speakers

Kendra Gipson

Network Lead, Nevada Afterschool Network

Monday April 14, 2025 5:00pm - 5:30pm MDT
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Network Share

7:45am MDT

White-Riley-Peterson Policy Fellowship - Cohort 12 Meeting

Tuesday April 15, 2025 7:45am - 8:45am MDT

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Feel free to bring your breakfast from the Tamaya Veranda to the meeting.

Tuesday April 15, 2025 7:45am - 8:45am MDT
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11:10am MDT

Research & Data: Research Overview: Follow Up from Plenary

Tuesday April 15, 2025 11:10am - 12:40pm MDT

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Speakers

Deepa S. Vasudevan, Ed.D.

Researcher | Youth, Family, & Community Development, American Institute for Research

Dr. Deepa S. Vasudevan is a researcher at the American Institutes for Research in the youth, family, and community development program area. Through sociocultural inquiry, Deepa explores the working lives of community-based youth workers, youth experiences in out-of-school time programming... Read More →

Michael Lemon

Director, Kansas Enrichment Network

Sandra Simpkins, Ph.D.

Professor, School of Education, University of California, Irvine

Sandra Simpkins, Ph.D. in psychology, is a professor in the School of Education. She received the William T. Grant Young Scholars Award and National Science Foundation CAREER Award to study how families, friendships, and social position factors (such as, ethnicity and culture) shape... Read More →

Ashlee Lester Sjogren

Research Assistant Professor, University of Virginia

Ashlee Sjogren is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Leadership, Foundations and Policy at the UVA School of Education and Human Development. She is also a faculty affiliate of Youth-Nex, The UVA Center to Promote Effective Youth Development. Her research interests... Read More →

Tuesday April 15, 2025 11:10am - 12:40pm MDT
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