Sprockets is excited to see two of our own selected into the National Afterschool Matters Fellowship. Jocelyn Wiedow and Rachel Katkar joined 21 other youth work professionals September 27th-29th in a fall kick off retreat at Wellesley College near Boston, MA.
The National Afterschool Matters Fellowship is a two-year professional development and leadership training program unique in its national reach and incorporation of technology for ongoing collaboration. See the full story.
 North End and Friends
Thursday Oct. 8th
9:30 am - 11 am at Washington Tech
East Side Network Cafe
Monday Oct. 12th
10 am -11:30 am at
Arlington Hills Community Center
Leap Forward Collaborative for Youth
Tuesday Oct. 20th
10 am - 12 pm at
St. Clemence
Neighborhood Learning Community
Thursday, Oct. 22nd
12 - 1pm at
Torre De San Miguel Homes
Learn more about Neighborhood Network Teams, and let us know if you'd like to be on the listserv for one or more of these groups.
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The Summer Learning
Program Quality Intervention (SLPQI) pilot is an opportunity to improve summer
program quality through access to a free external program
quality assessment, coaching and training for 15 summer programs. Past years
the Sprockets Network has built upon a continuous improvement cycle that
met the needs of school year OST programs. However, incorporating summer quality
work hasn't been tackled on a network level. Sprockets was selected
as one of two cities (Denver) for a two year pilot of a network approach to
quality improvements for summer. A partnership between the National Summer
Learning Association (NSLA) and the David P. Weikart Center for Youth Program
Quality (Weikart) has resulted in an adapted version of our familiar YPQA that
incorporates aspects unique to summer, along with an improvement cycle that
meets the needs of busy summer programs. See the full story.
Are you interested in engaging your youth more in your program evaluation? Sprockets, in partnership with the Youth Work Learning Lab at the University of Minnesota and the Wilder Foundation's Youth Leadership Initiative, is sponsoring a training and a year long community of practice that will help your program engage youth in evaluation including the YPQA. See more details and how to apply.
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Professional Development Opportunities
Foundational Skills Workshop:
Tuesday, October 20th
6:30pm-8:30pm
Register Here
Foundational Skills Workshop:
Friday, October 23rd
10:00-noon
Register Here
Click for class descriptions, registration, and more upcoming opportunities.
On September 22nd St. Paul Public Schools Board voted to launch a Student Advisory Team. In the pilot year, this group of students will work to: develop the long term vision and structure of the Youth Advisory Team, work on issues important to them and issues assigned by the Board and administration for greater student engagement in decision making. Learn More
Fall program has begun! Add your program to the Program Finder to get more youth involved in your program!
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