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AfterSchool
Leadership Academy ™
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Uniquely
combining
on-going
leadership development, executive coaching
and unparalleled
networking
opportunities
with peers, grantmakers and community
leaders, our AfterSchool
Leadership Academy™,
kicking off its
12th year in 2010, continues as our signature
program.
Ten
times each year (January - October, 9:30am-1:30pm)
with the support of distinguished
business,
education and non-profit leaders who volunteer
as discussion leaders and panelists,
our Academy brings
together Executive Directors, Senior Managers
and Board Members from our City
Scholars AfterSchool Network®
(CSAN), a
growing partnership of emerging and established
neighborhood after-school programs to
grow stronger
as leaders through
our tuition-free
Academy.
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Together,
they learn and share best practices, discover
creative solutions to common challenges
with leadership, management and program
development, connect with grantmakers
and community leaders who can share both
resources and wise counsel to help them
build their programs AND celebrate their
successes.
Indeed,
we challenge ourselves to present fresh
insights and perspectives around an established
core curriculum each year.
Doing
so creates a dynamic, exciting and engaging
environment that encourages and welcomes
our CSAN Leaders to participate with our
Academy on an on-going basis. |
With
time, they gain greater understanding, can
more effectively identify how best to apply
new learning to grow their programs and can
begin evaluating the impact of their actions.
Moreover, we are also better able to
understand and address their evolving needs
and issues. Best of all, with time they
gain the trust and confidence among their
peers that facilitates even greater learning
and success.
Each
Academy session offers a fun, interactive,
high-energy and impactful intensive 4 hour
learning opportunity supported by helpful
discussion notes and resource guides.
Sessions conclude with our ever-popular "Conversations
with Grantmakers & Community Leaders"
luncheon panel and generally involve no more
than 25 participants. Each year, our
Academy calendar includes:
| January:
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Roundtable
- Leadership Development |
| February:
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Roundtable
- Literacy & the Arts |
| March: |
Roundtable
- Staff Development
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| April: |
Roundtable - Board Development
Board Leadership Luncheon
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| May: |
Roundtable
- Health & Wellness |
| June:
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Roundtable
- Fiscal Management |
| July:
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Camp
LEADERSHIP - (CSAN Executive Directors
Summer Retreat) |
| August:
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Roundtable
- Program Evaluation |
| September: |
Roundtable - Math, Science & Technology
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| October:
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Roundtable
- Fundraising & Resource Development
Board Leadership Luncheon |
Indeed,
our Academy provides our CSAN Leaders with exactly
the on-going professional
training, coaching
and support beyond
the classroom and unparalled networking
opportunities in
a small group with peers, grantmakers and community
leaders that they need,
but could otherwise not afford.
In
fact, similar training programs often cost as
much as $1,500 to more than $5,000 per person,
do not focus specifically on the unique challenges
and needs of non-profit, neighborhood after-school
programs, provide little, if any, coaching and
support beyond the classroom, do not offer such
unique opportunities to network with peers, grantmakers
and community leaders and do not extend the opportunity
to participate on an on-going basis.
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