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Collaborative Communications is a communications consulting practice that forms partnerships with national foundations, the public sector, nonprofit education and community-based organizations, and school districts to create initiatives, distinctive products, and sustainable solutions that can improve the lives of children, their families, and their communities.

Join us March 8 – 11, 2015 in Washington, D.C., at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center.

Heidi Ham recently joined NAA as Vice President of Programs and Strategy. She will work closely with NAA Executive Director Gina Warner to lead the execution and development of NAA strategy to advance current work and to create and support new opportunities specifically focused on quality improvement, advancing professionalism, and strengthening state and local alliances. Get to know NAA's newest team member!

Ben Paul is president and CEO of After-School All-Stars, a national nonprofit organization providing free daily afterschool programs to nearly ninety thousand low-income children in ten states, from New York to Hawaii. During his ten-year tenure as COO and then CEO, Paul has overseen the expansion of program operations from forty-five to nearly four hundred schools. He has expanded the organization's focus from sports to the three pillars of academics, enrichment, and health and fitness. Today, ASAS is one of the largest national afterschool program providers solely focused on comprehensive school-based programs.

According to the Washington Post, in 2013, nearly fifteen million students in 167 countries completed a tutorial or other coding-based activity during Computer Science Education Week, with one in six American students taking part—more than half of which were girls. What will you do with your students to celebrate and encourage their interest in computer science?

 New resource material is available for download.

National Computer Science Education Week is December 8 – 14, 2014.

NAA is proud to welcome Dr. Dale Blyth to the NAA board as one of its newest members! Dr. Blyth is Extension Professor in the College of Education and Human Development, the Howland Endowed Chair in Youth Development Leadership, and a Senior Research Fellow with the Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement at the University of Minnesota.

It can be a real challenge each year to equip staff, impress parents, and, most important, excite and engage children. To make planning easier, we've created a guide full of products incorporating out-of-school time and STEM that are perfect for afterschool and summer programs of every type. Our products promote creativity, learning, and fun, while delivering the keepsakes children and parents love.

For more than one hundred years, S&S Worldwide has been providing educators with fun, hands-on learning products such as Arts and Crafts; Educational Games; Classroom Supplies, Activities, STEM, and more!

Learn more at http://naaweb.org/marketplace. and http://www.ssww.com.