Global Nomads Group's Content Creation Lab was established in the summer of 2020 as a way to fill a need for young people to have quality, remote, internship experiences during a global pandemic. This semester-long internship brings a global group of middle, high school, and college-age interns together to develop curricular content around topics important to young people. Learn more about the internship and apply.
Jack Kent Cooke Foundation is accepting applications for its Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship, designed to help reduce financial barriers for talented community college students applying to selective colleges and universities. In addition to the financial award, selected students receive college planning guidance and ongoing advising throughout their college experience and early career. Students also benefit from joining a unique network of Cooke Scholars and Alumni. Applications will be accepted until January 10, 2022.
PASE has teamed up with researchers at Columbia University to help local officials and community-based organizations understand the unique challenges facing New Yorkers and how they can target resources to help. Communities Speak is collecting information through an anonymous survey. Your responses will help ensure that local policymakers understand what they can do to support you and your family.
The National Summer Learning Association has released a study titled "Building Resilience in Youth Through Summer Experiences: Structured Summer Programming Promotes Social-Emotional Growth and School Preparedness." The study is designed to help practitioners, policy-makers, and researchers understand the caregiver perspective on both kinds of summer experiences, structured and unstructured, including what children do under each scenario, and what they learn academically, recreationally, and socio-emotionally from those activities, whether structured or unstructured.
Summer 2021 saw an unprecedented level of attention and infusion of public funding to increase access and expand the role of high-quality summer learning and enrichment programs. These investments sought to respond to the negative effects of distance learning, disengagement, and trauma experienced due to COVID-19, particularly for the students most harmed by the structural economic and racial inequities that have only been exacerbated during the pandemic. Partnership for Children & Youth has released a report describing how California educators met this moment.
Afterschool Alliance has released a new report, “Spiking Demand, Growing Barriers: The Trends Shaping Afterschool and Summer Learning in Rural Communities,” providing a look at the afterschool and summer landscape in rural communities, drawing off data from their America After 3PM research. Visit their dashboard to learn more about the findings from the report.
Search for job opportunities in afterschool from organizations including STEM from Dance, YMCA, and Sunnyside Community Services on PASE's Job & Volunteer Listings.
