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This monthly newsletter from the Partnership for After School Education is distributed by email and is designed to be a valuable resource for afterschool program staff of all levels. It will keep you informed about PASE events, as well as upcoming professional development opportunities. It will also contain news about important events in the afterschool field at large along with information on recent research and publications. And every month we will bring you an article featuring a PASE staff member or expert practitioner from the field, addressing a critical challenge facing afterschool today. We hope that the Bulletin will help you and your agency in your important work with New York City’s children and youth.

Please send any PASE Bulletin comments, questions, or submissions to bulletin@pasesetter.org.

On Tuesday April 8, 2008 PASE will hold the 10th Annual PASEsetter Awards, honoring five of the city’s most innovative and dedicated afterschool professionals. Click for more

Connecting to School Day Learning Standards

Connecting afterschool activities to school day learning is an essential component of any program in today’s results-driven environment. We all understand the impact that our programs have on academic outcomes, especially as the frontline help for homework and tutoring each day, but we often have difficulty expressing and demonstrating this impact in a formal way. It is vital for programs housed in schools to work with principals to align their work with the school’s educational goals and to demonstrate how programs outside of schools reinforce school day learning by incorporating math, science, reading and applied learning.

Programs can formalize their educational programming by connecting lesson plans and overall curricular goals to learning standards. These are standardized rubrics – divided by core subject – that have learning benchmarks which can be used to broaden and enhance the educational quality of your program. Click for more

6th PASE Baruch Emerging Leaders Class Graduates

Twenty-one of New York City’s best and brightest afterschool leaders graduated from the Emerging Leaders in Child & Youth Services program on Friday, December 14, 2007. These graduates are the up and coming youth development stars of today and the executive directors of tomorrow.

In the near future, as executive directors and other leaders depart their agencies, the New York’s human services community will face a crisis if staff members are not ready and able to take on these roles. To this end PASE and Baruch College’s School of Public Affairs partnered again this fall to offer the 6 th annual Emerging Leaders program, a comprehensive, semester-long course in non-profit management. Click for more