Resources

When you register for NAA's Annual Convention, consider staying on-site at the beautiful Gaylord Palms Resort.

It's EASY!

Group management is a skill that is imperative when working in youth programs, and especially so when implementing STEM. It is important the adult leader carefully plan and prepare in advance in order to create the necessary structure for STEM learning—to make this process EASY, focus on the Environment, Activities, Schedule, and Your relationships and interactions.

We are at a unique place in time where STEM initiatives are influencing the future economy. Unfortunately, these initiatives are widening the gap between what students are learning in school and the skills they will need to thrive in a new digital and hyperconnected world.

He's a STEM educator, creator and trainer!

Andy Allan's educational philosophy is to engage young people's natural curiosity and creative thinking through fun active-learning STEM experiences.

When you work with information—student data, activity plans, your own education—finding what you need can be seamless, or it can feel like a wild goose chase. It all depends on how you organize your files.

It's not just about cooperation, it's about making every team member feel valued and important.

We asked. You answered. We deliver.

Last spring, through the annual AfterSchool Today reader's survey, the NAA community expressed interest in additional resources to support science, technology, engineering and math—the subjects known as STEM.

One part motivational speaker, one part DJ, two parts community organizer and parent of two daughters, Eric Rowles runs a customized consulting and facilitation practice that, through a network of more than 20 dynamic and diversely talented trainers, works with for-profit and nonprofit organizations to achieve progressive and dynamic change.

I'm busy. We're all busy. This year I recommended that we move Thanksgiving from Thursday to Friday. Why?

Get excited about moving!

Technology comes with a price tag many afterschool programs cannot afford—and if they can afford it, the idea of a child "running with" technology is perhaps nerve-wracking. Technology is the here and now, however, and when we can use it to boost physical fitness, sometimes we have to step outside of our comfort zones and try.