Conferences and Trainings
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– Evaluation –
Making Performance Management Happen
Description: Many organizations are developing a performance management infrastructure to improve outcomes and better allocate resources. Whether your organization is just embarking on the performance management journey or you are well on your way, consider joining us for a free webinar, Making Performance Management Happen. This webinar will provide guidance on building evaluation capacity, overcoming challenges, and maintaining performance management infrastructure within an organization. Thursday, February 7, 2013, 3:00-4:00pm ET
– Professional Development –
Introduction to Positive Youth Development
Description: This is a free, self-paced online course which is designed familiarize participants with the theory and practice of Positive Youth Development. The course contains two modules. Participants will receive certificates showing they have completed 1 hour and 45 minutes of training.
Program in Education, Afterschool and Resiliency Webinars
Description: On-demand or archived webinars on key topics, bringing research findings to practice. Intended audience is youth and afterschool school program staff. Webinars from 2007 through today. Sponsored by Program in Education, Afterschool and Resiliency (PEAR), based at Harvard University.
What's the Big Idea? Framing Science with Crosscutting Concepts 
Author: Staker, Jay (13 more by this author); Bob Horton, Trudy Dunham
Description: How do you think about the world? What dimensions or concepts are most salient? Join Jay Staker and Bob Horton for an intriguing discussion of big ideas and crosscutting concepts, and the role they can play in what we observe, what we wonder about, and what we teach and learn. This webinar is a dialogue about the crosscutting concepts defined in the new "A Framework for K-12 Science" and their importance in informal science learning (and other disciplines as well!). Adding them to our teaching and facilitation can support content learning, as well as innovation, inquiry, and self-directed learning.
Youth Development and Abstinence: Understanding the Link
Author: Russell, Stephen (3 more by this author); Ingrid Lindberg; Kristie Fink
Description: Presenters Stephen Russell, Kristie Fink, and Ingrid Lindberg discuss contemporary issues from research and practice linking youth development and abstinence, ways to promote abstinence through youth development in your community, and the value of the Community of Caring program in helping to achieve this goal. A link to the audio recording of the conference call is available.
Youth Development's 100 Year Legacy: Lessons to shape future research and practice
Description: The current issue of the Journal of Youth Development commemorates the 100th anniversary of many national youth-serving organizations and the history of youth development. In ten articles, authors reflect on research trends and influential contributions over time as well as on issues of practice that continue to evolve and challenge the field. The volume concludes with two commentaries about future directions for field-building. This webinar on the special issue of the Journal of Youth Development was hosted by the CYFERnet Teen Editorial Board. Guest editors Michelle Gambone, Joyce Walker and Kate Walker engaged commentary authors Dale Blyth and Reed Larson in a discussion of the historical context and three themes for the 21st century: The impact of divergent perspectives on youth development; the value of translational scholarship; and, the importance of leveraging systems support.
Author: Wood, Elizabeth
Description: On-line training program for staff and volunteers on the principles and practices of positive youth development. Each session provides opportunities to learn and apply research based information to practice.
– Programming Resource –
Author: Wood, Elizabeth
Description: On-line training program for staff and volunteers on the principles and practices of positive youth development. Each session provides opportunities to learn and apply research based information to practice.