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May 17, 2010

*VOTE YES ON 100*Tomorrow's election is an important one for Arizona. If you haven't already voted by mail, rememberto come out and vote YES on Proposition 100 tomorrow.Proposition 100 proposes a 1% increase in the Arizona state sales tax. Two-thirds of the revenuesgenerated would fund K-12 education and the other one-third would fund health and human services andpublic safety. The sales tax would automatically repeal on May 31, 2013.Help protect Arizona education, health, and public safety by votingYES on 100 tomorrow!

Get Election and Poll Location Information HERECollege Leaders Issue Prop 100 Statement:Read the joint statement of higher education leaders in Arizona on Prop 100 HERE...

A Message from the Executive DirectorSuccess Stories

Success stories! We know you have one, if not more!Arizona's afterschool providers are doing fabulous work and having an incredible impact working with our
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children at all grade levels and in all types of programs around the state. As you all know, there is no"one size fits all" in afterschool programs. Children are all different! Their needs are different! And hencea range of out-of-school time programs......art, music, literacy, character development, service learning,sports, homework, mentoring, etc. ..... are needed to meet the needs of Arizona's children and families.Parents, educators and policymakers are all taking notice of the impact that quality afterschool programshave on the children involved. But we're not content to wait for you and your program and its manysuccesses to be discovered. We want to highlight them! In fact, we recently had both a local televisionand radio station reach out to us expressing their interest in covering the "faces, voices and stories ofafterschool". Yes, your story could be featured on tomorrow night's news.

Don't take your good work and its success for granted! Please call or email the Arizona Center forAfterschool Excellence regarding your summer plans, a student's success or a family's need. Share thestory of a staff member that goes above and beyond in inspiring children to believe in themselves and bethe best they can be. Share a story, poem or video that your students have done. The possibilities areendless. Please share your story and even video clips with us that we can both share with the mediaand feature in a new section of our website.

Send your success stories [email protected] share them by phone at 602.496.3307.

-- Melanie McClintock, Executive Director

Announcements from the Center

Save the Date!11.20.2010 Arizona Afterschool Conference: Enriching Out-of-School Time with

STEM

Join us for the 20th Annual Arizona Afterschool Conference, featuring workshops and speakers aimedat strengthening out-of-school time programs and staff.

This year's theme is STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering & Math and how to to incorprate thesesubjects into out-of-school time programming as well as workshops geared toward topics such as sitemanagement, advocacy & marketing your program.

Mark your calendars for this invaluable professional development opportunity!
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Saturday, November 20, 2010 - 8 am to 3:30 pmPhoenix Convention Center

Registration information coming soon to www.azafterschool.org

Celebrate an outstanding

out-of-school time staff member, program or leader!

Nominations are now open for the 2010Afterschool Awards of Excellence! On October 13, 2010, out-of-school time programs, staff and leaders will be recognized at the Spotlight on Afterschool: Awards of

Excellence Luncheon.

Awards will be given in 3 categories:Individual, Leadership & Program

> Nominations are due Monday, May 31, 2010 Burton Barr (1st Saturday of the month)>Mesquite (2nd Saturday of the month)>Cesar Chavez (3rd Saturday of the month)>Cholla (4th Saturday of the month)The parents of children who are not reading at grade level will receive suggested learning activities,materials and referral information. registration is not required.

For more information, visitwww.phoenixpubliclibrary.org.

Looking for Exciting Summer Activities for Children & Youth?Check out the new 2010 Summer Activities page on the AZ Center for Afterschool Excellence website!

2010 Summer Activities

Upcoming Training Sessions: Arts Integration AcademyArts Integration Academy For Classroom Teachers, Teaching Artists, Arts Integration Specialists, and

Administrators

Session I: June 1 - 4, 2010, TUCSONSession II: June 14 - 17, 2010, FLAGSTAFFSession III: August 2 - 5, 2010, TUCSON

Learn arts integration from the professionals who pioneered the nationally recognized Opening Mindsthrough the Arts (OMA) Program. For details and to register, visit:http://www.omafoundation.org/#/news/aia-2010/
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Registration is Now Open for the Joint Arts Education Conference on July 29thThe Arizona Department of Education and the Arizona Commission on the Arts are bringing together arts

educators, arts administrators and teaching artists to examine the AZ Arts Education census results andcollaborative design of action-oriented strategies for building a sustainable future for arts education.The Joint Arts Education Conference will be held at the brand new Musical instrument Museum inScottsdale on July 29, 2010.

For more information about the conference or to register, visit:www.azarts.gov/swac/registration/

Save the Date!

Spotlight on Afterschool:Awards of Excellence Luncheon on October 13th!

Celebrate the work of afterschool programs, staff and leaders in Arizona at the 9th Annual Spotlight onAfterschool: Awards of Excellence Luncheon!

October 13, 2010 at 11:30 amArizona Biltmore Resort, Grand Ballroom

Save the Date: Arizona Afterschool Conference: Enriching Out-of-School Timewith STEMThe 20th Annual Arizona Afterschool Conference will feature workshops and speakers aimed atstrengthening out-of-school time programs and staff. This year's theme is STEM: Science, Technology,Engineering & Math and how to to incorprate these subjects into out-of-school time programming as wellas workshops geared toward everything from site management, advocacy & marketing your program.

Mark your calendars for this invaluable professional development opportunity!Saturday, November 20, 2010 - 8 am to 4 pmPhoenix Convention Center

Afterschool Resources/Research/Reports

Looking for Exciting Summer Activities for Children & Youth?

Check out the new 2010 Summer Activities page on the AZ Center for Afterschool Excellence website!
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2010 Summer Activities

The National AfterSchool Association's My Principal Matters AwardsThis National AfterSchool Association program recognizes excellence in school leadership and celebrateshighly effective collaborations between afterschool program leaders and preK-12 principals. The AwardProgram is designed to be a local level event honoring exemplary principals who show a strong

commitment to high-quality extended learning opportunities.

For more information, visit:http://naaweb.site-ym.com/?page=MyPrincipalMatters

Southwest Conservation Corps Service Learning ProgramsThe Southwest Conservation Corps is looking for young adults - Grades 6-12 - to participate in service-learning programs during the summer months. Programs engage students in community-based service-learning projects that are intensive, structured, supervised, and designed to produce identifiableimprovements to the community.

For program and registration information, visithttp://sccorps.org/jobs/.

Engaging Older Youth: Program and City Level Strategies to Support Sustainedparticipation in Out-of-School TimePublic/Private Ventures, the Wallace Foundation, and the Harvard Family Research Project conducted astudy of almost 200 out-of-school-time programs in six cities to better understand how they promotesustained participation among older youth.
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The resulting data indicated that two of the most important practices distinguishing high-retentionprograms were: 1) ample leadership opportunities for youth and, 2) high levels of staff efforts to keepinformed about participants' lives outside the programs.

The study also compares and contrasts effective practices for middle school- versus high school-agedyouth, noting the shortcomings of "one-size-fits-all" strategies. Finally, Engaging Older Youth details theinfluence of city-level OST initiatives on programs and identifies the types of city-level services that likelysupport participation.

Download the full report here.

AfterZones: Creating a Citywide System to Support and Sustain High-QualityAfter-School ProgramsPublic/Private Ventures, in partnership with the Wallace Foundation, has published a study that looks atthe successes and challenges in an effort to build out-of-school time programming for middle-schoolstudents in Rhode Island.Read the findingshere.

Healthy Teen NetworkThe Lucille Packard Foundation for Children's Health recently released the updated companion ResourceGuide to the report, Putting It All Together: Guiding Principles for Quality After-School Programs ServingPreteens.This online Resource Guide provides recent research and tools to help service providersstrengthen their after-school programs, particularly those serving preteens.

The guide is organized around the six principles of quality after-school programs that are described in theabove-mentioned report from 2008, including; Focused and Intentional Strategy, Exposure, SupportiveRelationships, Family Engagement, Cultural Competence, Continuous Program Improvement, andadditional resources. For more informationclick here.

Treasures for TeachersTreasures 4 Teachers is an Arizona nonprofit that provides donated reusable and recycled supplies for an

annual fee of $50 to teachers and educators working in:

Public, Parochial, & Charter SchoolsHome School Programs

Early Care & Education Programs (Head Start & Crisis Centers)Before and After-school programsCommunity and Youth Organizations

Visit their website at www.treasures4teachers.org/index.html.

Cutting Cost, Keeping Quality: Financing Strategies for Youth-ServingOrganizations in A Difficult EconomyRead the report from The Finance Project here:

www.financeproject.org/publications/CuttingCostKeepingQuality.pdf

America After 3 PM

Check out the key findings from an in-depth study of how America's children spend their afternoons.America After 3PMwas conducted in 2009 for the Afterschool Alliance and surveyed nearly 30,000households across the United States.

Read the nationwide findings here:
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http://www.afterschoolalliance.org/AA3PM.cfm

Read the Arizona findings here: http://www.afterschoolalliance.org/AA3PM_states.cfm?state_abbr=AZ&level=1

112 North Central Avenue, Suite 700Phoenix, AZ 85004

www.azafterschool.org602.496.3307
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