NorthernRecharge2025

Attention all frontline employees! We’ve created a series of fun, interactive sessions tailored to the incredible work you do teaching youth. These sessions will help you prepare for upcoming observations and support overall and continuous quality improvement. Plan an afterschool activity with this three-pronged approach of visualizing inputs, outputs and outcomes easily and painlessly (sometimes called "the Logic Model")! We will walk through a mock activity together and illustrate how to engage students in planning, leadership, skill-building and reflection. The Quality Improvement Best Practices sessions are available as a series or individually.

Join us in an interactive workshop for professionals who support adolescents ages 10-19 to learn the fundamentals of Social & Emotional Learning (SEL) and the key benefits for both individuals and communities. Participants will be familiarized with and receive a copy of "Social and Emotional Learning in Practice: A Toolkit of Practical Strategies and Resources” by the University of Minnesota. We will explore how to use data to make improvements, and learn about accommodations when implementing SEL to better meet the needs of all adolescents, particularly adolescents with disabilities or IEPs.

Unsure where to start when planning STEM curriculum for youth? This session utilizes the steps of the scientific method to guide you in designing high-quality activities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Participants will learn how to center curriculum on observation, asking questions, forming hypotheses, experimentation, data analysis, and communicating results. We will also touch on the PEAR Institute's Dimensions of Success rubric for assessing the quality of STEM programming.

History in Motion covers creating engaging history lessons for students as young as 4th grade up to secondary education. This session will cover reasons to teach history, how to create engaging history lessons with amazing resources, and an example lesson of Early America leading upto the Revolutionary War which shows how to integrate physical activity into history lessons.

How can ESTEAM learning (STEM + Arts + Entrepreneurship) help you with behavior management and student leadership development? Come to this interactive session with VentureLab and Davis SD Afterschool to learn proven strategies, play some activities, and leave with a plan to apply for your program!

Calling all Muggles: this is a Harry Potter inspired workshop. Participants will learn eight potions, spells, and incidental magic tricks and the chemistry experiments that pair with them. It is a hands-on workshop so wear your grubbies.

Science, Technology, Engineering and Math are important parts of almost every afterschool program, but not always the easiest parts to implement. STEM it to Win It is a STEM take on the Minute to Win It concept. This workshop will introduce you to a dozen ways to quickly and painlessly integrate STEM into other activities in quick, fun interactions. Join us for fun and games, and leave with a pocketful of STEM tricks for all ages.

How can ESTEAM learning (STEM + Arts + Entrepreneurship) help you with behavior management and student leadership development? Come to this interactive session with VentureLab and Davis SD Afterschool to learn proven strategies, play some activities, and leave with a plan to apply for your program!

It is no secret that afterschool kids love crafts! Afterschool crafting helps kids learn new interests and find ways to enjoy life. But how do you add that "secret sauce" that turns a craft into a deeper learning experience. This session is a little bit like making zucchini cake: we will hide the "vegetables" of learning in something really sweet. In this session we will create three different hands-on crafts with hidden STEM learning. You will learn how to increase STEM interest through fun and engaging creative experiences, no experience necessary. Bring your creative mind and join us for a relaxing but informative workshop.