Subject: New Family Engagement Lunch & Learn and more in your Million Girls Monday News!

Summer is the perfect time for family engagement! Gain research-backed practices for engaging the whole family in your summer STEM activities! In this lunch and learn we will:

  • Review four key strategies for fostering family engagement

  • Share a toolkit you can take back to your program

  • Hear from Code Virginia on how they have used these tools for their own family engagement

Discovery Education's new STEM Careers Coalition's mission is to empower educators to teach STEM effectively, focusing on equity, access and building the next generation of solution-seekers at no cost to schools. In support of this their free-open access website has many great resources on STEM careers:

 

  • Career stories and resources: this page houses a library of career stories and related content to bring awareness to potential STEM career opportunities across various industries.

 

  • Career readiness resources: these resources can be used to help students begin preparing for career opportunities and discover pathways they may be interested in.

 

  • STEM Activities: these are educator-facing activities and while intended for use during the school day, could also be used in afterschool programming

 

Hiring Interns or Teen Leaders for the Summer? Asynchronous Course

Click2ComputerScience’s new course, Teens Learning to Lead, is a great way to help new interns get prepared for working with youth.  It is a leadership course for high school and college-aged people designed for participants to complete on their own, or with a team.  We recommend that teams who will be teaching together over the summer complete the course together. Participants will need a computer and a journal for reflecting on their learning.  The reflection points can be the basis for discussions with a supervisor. mentor or coach that will help participants learn and grow as leaders.


This is a self-directed online learning experience offered at no cost by Click2ComputerScience.  The course is divided into four units with a culminating experience that lets participants apply what they have learned. See Teens Learning to Lead for yourself.

Afterschool Math Plus Curriculum Training 

All sessions are on Tuesdays from 1:00 - 2:00 PM: June 20, July 18, August 15, September 19, October 17, and November 28, 2023

Previous Training Recordings: April HERE


Upcoming Sessions Afterschool Math Plus Curriculum


June 20th

Jump Rope Math: How Far Can You Go?

Create line graphs and use data to make predictions about how far jumpers can travel in a set amount of time.


July 18thth

Jump Rope Math: Going to Great Lengths

Observe patterns, create a scatter graph, and analyze data to make predictions about connections between jump rope length and jumper height.


August 15thth

Jump Rope Math: Designing a Math Investigation 

Use bar graphs, line graphs, scatter graphs and Venn diagrams to explore different ways of answering math questions about jumping rope. 


September 19thth

MusicMath: Unexpected Math, Creating Rhythms, and Making Rhythm Patterns

Create musical patterns, then repeat the patterns and think about how to represent the patterns using words, pictures, and symbols.


October 17thth

MusicMath: Composing Music (with Math!)

Experiment with repeating patterns and create new arrangements using similar sounds in different sequences.


November 14th 

MusicMath: Discovering Music Fractions

Identify and represent parts of fractions using music and explore combinations and permutations, or ways of creating variety while still using the same elements.


December 12th 

MusicMath: Orchestration

Use fractions to create musical compositions, then perform the compositions using found instruments (pans, boxes, pencils, whistles). Create new combinations and permutations for the music fractions.


REGISTER FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL TRAINING SESSION HERE


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