School Age Child Care FAQ
Website Resources for School-Age Programs and Practitioners
Curriculum and Activities
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Name of Site |
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The Learning Page |
Lesson plans, worksheets, and themes. |
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Scholastic in the Classroom |
Tools, printables, and 10,000+ teaching ideas at your fingertips. |
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Storyline Online |
Stories read online by celebrities. Choose from a variety of books. |
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4H Science Discovery Series |
Curriculum and resources to help educators help youth discover the fun of science. |
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The Mailbox Magazine |
Teacher ideas, educational products, and supplies from their magazines. |
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The Idea Box |
Activity ideas for crafts, seasonal themes, recipes, and games. |
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Ed World |
Lesson planning, professional development, calendars, templates, and resources for the classroom. |
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Circle of Inclusion |
Activity ideas for children with special needs. |
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Technology |
free and easy to use resources for teachers dedicated to improving the education of today's generation of students |
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A to Z Kids Stuff |
Fun and educational school-age activities. |
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A to Z Teacher Stuff |
Lesson plans, themes, tips, articles. |
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Crayola |
Lesson plans and activity ideas. |
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The Activity Idea Place |
Activity ideas and themes. |
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Kididdles |
Music resources and activities. |
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Enchanted Learning |
Printable activities. |
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Kinder Printables |
Tons of printable activities and activity ideas. |
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Teacher Domain |
View as many resources as you like. View as many resources as you like. Save, sort, and share resources as you like. Save, sort, and share resources using My Folders and My Groups. Download resources to your desktop. See standards correlations for you state. |
Teacher Resources
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Name of Site |
URL |
Description |
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School-Age Notes |
Newsletter, books, and school-age resources available to order. |
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Kinder Street |
Kinderstreet, now called Vale Solutions, is the leader in afterschool and early childhood solutions and is continually breaking new ground in how providers, parents and government communicate. |
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The Family Involvement Network of Educators (FINE) |
http://gseweb.harvard.edu/hfrp/projects/fine.html
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A national network of over 8,000 people who are interested in promoting strong partnerships between children's educators, their families, and their communities. |
Health, Safety & Nutrition
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Name of Site |
URL |
Description |
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Healthy Child Care Pennsylvania |
ECELS provides health professional consultation, training, and technical assistance to improve early childhood education programs in the Commonwealth. |
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Pennsylvania American Academy of Pediatrics |
Current news, message boards, info on healthy children, immunizations, child abuse, and more. |
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National Resource for Health and Safety in Child Care and Early Education |
Offers guides, child care and education information, standards, and statistics. |
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Kid Source Online |
Activities, information and resources on keeping kids healthy from K-12. |
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NetSmartz |
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Internet safety program with downloadable activity cards, free presentations, and more resources. |
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National Program for Playground Safety |
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Safety tips, research, and information services. |
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Life Success for Children with Learning Disabilities |
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A non-profit organization that specializes in working with children who have learning disabilities. |
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Keep Kids Healthy |
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Resources, articles, tips, and nutrition information. |
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Caring for Our Children |
Online version of Caring for Children |
Training & Professional Development
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Name of Site |
URL |
Description |
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PA Keys |
Check the Professional Development for upcoming trainings and register online. |
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Healthy Child Care Pennsylvania |
ECELS provides health professional consultation, training, and technical assistance to improve early childhood education programs in the Commonwealth. |
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Teacher Workshops |
http://www.t2tweb.us/Workshops/About.asp
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Supports teachers' efforts in the classroom through professional development workshops and digital workshops and by sharing relevant information through email updates. |
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SEDL Afterschool Training Kit |
From math and science to literacy and the arts, this toolkit has everything you need to engage students in fun afterschool activities while extending content knowledge across the curriculum. |
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PA Staff Development |
Provides the leadership to identify, promote, and support the continuous professional growth of those who take responsibility for education of students and who work to create communities of lifelong learners. |
Organizations & Associations
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Name of Site |
URL |
Description |
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National AfterSchool Association |
Accreditation, publications, materials, and resources. |
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PA School-Age Child Care Association |
State affiliate website to NAA. Updates, events, and other happenings in the field of school-age care and after-school programming. |
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PA Child Care Association |
Pennsylvania quality childcare resources. |
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Association for Childhood Education International |
Advocacy, journals, resources, conferences. |
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After School Alliance |
Non-profit organization working to raise awareness of the importance of after school programs and advocating quality after school care. |
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National Child Care Information Center |
A national clearinghouse and technical assistance center that links parents, providers, policy-makers, researchers, and the public to early care and education information. |
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WINGS Helping Kids Soar |
Through small lessons carefully woven into everyday activities, WINGS helps kids understand themselves, behave responsibly, form positive relationships and make good decisions. |
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National Network for Child Care |
Articles, resources, newsletters, conferences, and events. |
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National Institute on Out of School Time (NIOST) |
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All about NIOST and their fight to improve the quality of school-age children’s lives. |
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Children, Youth, and Families Education and Research Network |
Explore resources related to parenting the school age child, school age youth development, educational activities, enriching learning environments, site and program management, and partnerships/collaborations. |
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National Youth Development
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Information center, research, publications, projects, funding, careers, policy and more. |
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Connect for Kids |
Gives visitors the information and tools they need to learn about issues affecting children, families, and communities and to take action to improve policies and programs, and, ultimately, the fabric of our nation as a whole. |
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21st Century Community Learning Center |
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Supports the creation of community learning centers that provide academic enrichment opportunities during non-school hours for children, particularly students who attend high-poverty and low-performing schools. |
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Afterschool.gov |
Connecting after-school providers to Federal resources that support children and youth during out-of-school time. |
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Children Youth & Family |
Provides links to national advocacy groups. |
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Children’s Defense Fund |
Listings of the latest legislative proposals in the child care field as well as free newsletters providing advocacy and legislative updates. |
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The Afterschool Investments Project |
The Afterschool Investments project provides technical assistance to Child Care and Development Fund grantees and other State and local leaders supporting afterschool efforts. |
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Program in Education, Afterschool, and Resiliency |
Afterschool news and events, journals, professional development webinars, and conference information. |
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Resources on Afterschool |
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An online tool featuring selected resources in the areas of: research and evaluation, promising practices, professional development, public awareness and communications, policy, and financing in afterschool. |
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Out of School Time |
Programming resources such as research and evaluation, administrative resources, educational resources, and listservs. |
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Pennsylvania Partnership |
Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children is a strong, effective and trusted voice to improve the health, education and well-being of children and youth in the Commonwealth. PPC is statewide, independent, non-partisan and non-profit. |
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Pennsylvania Statewide Afterschool Youth Development Network |
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PSAYDN’s promotes sustainable, high-quality out-of-school time youth development programs through advocacy and capacity building to enhance the welfare of Pennsylvania’s children, youth and families. |
Guidance & Discipline
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Name of Site |
URL |
Description |
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Working with School-Age Children: Discipline, Part 2 |
Reasons for misbehaviors and strategies to use when children misbehave. |
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Working with School-Age Children: Preventing Misbehavior, Part 1 |
Strategies for preventing misbehavior and how to enable children to succeed in your program. |
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Character Education Partnership |
National forum, eleven principles, quality standards for teaching character. |
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Character Counts! |
Activities, resources, downloadable materials to use for teaching character. |
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Character Education |
Free resources, materials, and lesson plans for teaching character. |
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Life Skills Power Points |
Power Point shows and resources to use when teaching life skills to children. |
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Teaching Tolerance |
Anti-bias resources for teachers, parents, kids, and teens. |
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Guidance Lessons |
http://asai.indstate.edu/goldstar/resources/lessons.htm
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Academic development, career development, and citizenship development resources. |
Updated September 21, 2009
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