NJSACC Develops Important ESSER Toolkit, A Guide for New Jersey School & District Leaders NJSACC has developed a free, downloadable toolkit with all of the information needed to assist school leaders partner with quality afterschool providers to create afterschool, out-of-school time (OST), and summer programs using ESSER funds. The toolkit includes: How to Get Started Checklist: Resources to help schools and…
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Strategic Planning for American Rescue Plan Act CCDF Discretionary Supplemental Funds The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARP Act) (Pub. Law 117-2), signed on March 11, 2021, includes $14.99 billion in supplemental Child Care and Development (CCDF) Discretionary Funds to help states, territories, and Tribes recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and rebuild a better child care…
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Check out this May Moonshot Minute and more! Networks — Here is your May Moonshot Minute: Applications open for Project EDGE Social-Emotional Curriculum Testers! Project EDGE (Engagement and Development for Girls through Engineering) is testing and evaluating an OST curriculum that integrates engineering activities and social-emotional development for youth with the goal of developing STEM identity…
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Registration Now Open: Nita M. Lowey 21st CCLC 2023 Summer Symposium – July 19-20 – New Orleans The U.S. Department of Education (the Department) is pleased to announce that registration for the Nita M. Lowey 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) 2023 Summer Symposium is now open! This two-day event provides State educational agencies and their grantees with…
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NJSACC’s Director of Program Services Jessica Heiberg Shares Her Afterschool Story! Did you attend an afterschool program in your youth? Tell us what you did after school usually. I did not attend an afterschool program. After school, I would come home or go to a friend’s house. Usually I would do homework, watch a little…
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NJSACC’s Digital Technology Director Adam Cruz Shares His Afterschool Story! Did you attend an afterschool program in your youth? Tell us what you did after school usually. I was born in NYC but grew up in Paterson, NJ until I was 10 years old. Going to School #20 meant that most of us with parents…
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NJSACC’s Director of Expanded Learning Opportunities Tyneisha K. Gibbs Shares Her Afterschool Story! Did you attend an afterschool program in your youth? Tell us what you did after school usually. I didn’t attend formal afterschool programs but I was involved in extracurricular activities like my girl scout meetings on Elizabeth Ave. in Newark, summer camps…
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NJSACC’s Director of Special Projects Sarah Cruz Shares Her Afterschool Story! Did you attend an afterschool program in your youth? Tell us what you did after school usually. I attended the Community Center afterschool program that my mother worked in. It was called the Frog Hollow Community Center in Montclair, NJ and it was located…
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NJSACC’s Technical Assistance Specialist Patricia Pugliese Shares Her Afterschool Story! Did you attend an afterschool program in your youth? Tell us what you did after school usually. I attended afterschool programs both in middle and high school. In HS, I attended the school’s gymnastics club twice a week. Not a great gymnast, but I did…
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NJSACC’s Quality Team Director Dagmar Wojcik Shares Her Afterschool Story! Did you attend an afterschool program in your youth? Tell us what you did after school usually. When I was growing up way back when, afterschool programs were not common in NJ suburbs, but we had a neighborhood full of busy kids of all ages,…
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