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The Making After-School Cool Podcast is an essential part of the CASE for Kids push to increase the awareness of resources that improve quality in the after-school and out-of-school time field. Join Mike Wilson and field experts as they discuss best practices, the growth mindset, project-based learning, social emotional learning, restorative practices and student engagement all with after-school providers in mind. Brought to you by Case4Kids
Episodes
Friday Jan 15, 2021
Friday Jan 15, 2021
This week on the Making Afterschool Cool podcast, tune in for part two of my interview with Dr. Eddie Moore Jr.. During this interview, we will continue to discuss strategies for addressing diversity in our lives and community.
This podcast discusses:
- The 21 Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge, can you describe this challenge and the benefits people can gain if they commit to it?
- Steps individuals can take in their communities to start a dialogue regarding privilege, structural inequality, and diversity?
- Ways Dr. Moore relaxes and take care of himself?
Guest
Dr. Eddie Moore Jr. and he has been guiding individuals and groups in workshops pertaining to issues of diversity, privilege, oppression, and leadership. Dr. Moore, achieved success in academia, business, diversity, leadership, and community service. In 1996, he started America & MOORE, LLC, to provide diversity, and leadership training, and workshops.
Resources
Dr. Eddie Moore Jr.
Harris County Department of Education
https://hcde-texas.org
CASE for Kids
Thursday Jan 07, 2021
Thursday Jan 07, 2021
This week on the Making Afterschool Cool podcast, tune in for part one of the two part interview with Dr. Eddie Moore Jr.. During this interview, we discuss strategies for addressing diversity in our lives and community.
This podcast discusses:
- Strategies to recognize diverse needs particularly regarding social justice and equity
- Leadership based on the belief that people must work together as a team instead of a system based on power
- Training that requires participants to examine personal biases, behaviors, and belief systems
- Methods for afterschool programs to include diversity topics in programing
Guest
Dr. Eddie Moore Jr. and he has been guiding individuals and groups in workshops pertaining to issues of diversity, privilege, oppression, and leadership. Dr. Moore, achieved success in academia, business, diversity, leadership, and community service. In 1996, he started America & MOORE, LLC, to provide diversity, and leadership training, and workshops.
Resources
Dr. Eddie Moore Jr.
Harris County Department of Education
https://hcde-texas.org
CASE for Kids
Thursday Dec 17, 2020
Thursday Dec 17, 2020
This week on the Making Afterschool Cool podcast some of the CASE for Kids staff reflect on their experiences during the year 2020. The guests this episode are Adrian Izaguirre, Chasidy Celestine, Brandi Nichols, Kittra Hewitt and Trina Finley. This episode you will hear more about:
- Relationships and how to maintain them with individuals, groups and/or organizations that are typically worked with
- Lessons learned this year
- Things they are most grateful for
- Hopes for the upcoming year
Harris County Department of Education
https://hcde-texas.org
CASE for Kids
Monday Dec 07, 2020
Monday Dec 07, 2020
This week the Making Afterschool Cool podcast focuses on the influence of Project Based Learning (PBL) activities can have on post graduate students. The guests for this episode are Joe Paneitz, award winning teacher and Coordinator of Ecobot Challenge; and Melanie Velazquez, former Ecobot Challenge participant and current Ecobot mentor. This episode, you will learn more about the:
- Benefits of PBL
- Purpose of Ecobot Challenge
- Ways that developing STEM skills and participating in Ecobot are helpful to students
- Structure of a typical Ecobot Challenge Day
- Methods for involving former students that have graduated from high school as mentors in PBL programs
Guest
Joe Paneitz is an award-winning educator was recognized as the 2020 Humble ISD District Teacher of the Year, 2020 Humble ISD Secondary Teacher of the Year, 2020 Region IV, Texas Teacher of the Year, 2020 Gulf Coast School Boards Association Teacher of the Year, 2020, ATPE Humble Teacher of the Year, and Curriculum Director and Lead Teacher All-Earth Ecobot Challenge
Melanie Velazquez is a graduate of the Ecobots program, is currently a college student at Houston Community College and is a mentor to currently elementary students participating in the Ecobots Challenge.
Resources
Harris County Department of Education
https://hcde-texas.org
CASE for Kids
https://hcde-texas.org/afterschool-zone
Friday Nov 20, 2020
Friday Nov 20, 2020
This week the Making Afterschool Cool podcast focuses on strategies afterschool programs can use to teach American history without any deletions or omissions. Today’s guest, Howard Rosenberg, discusses how introducing learners to lesser known historical figures accomplishes this goal. This episode, you will learn more about the:
- Importance of history including more diverse and authentic voices
- Definition of ‘unsung hero’ and how their contributions often shape history
- Suggestions to make history come alive and go beyond just school textbooks
- Process afterschool programs can use to find experts to speak on their experiences regarding historical events
- Resources found in children’s books and animated movies which align with historical events
- Methods for afterschool programs to enhance the history lessons their students may be receiving in school
Guest
Howard Rosenberg has taught middle school social studies in New York City for the past 14 years. In addition to teaching eighth-grade social studies, he facilitates a mock trial enrichment class. He is also the creator of the website “Trials of a Middle School Teacher
Resources
Trails of a Middle School Teacher
http://www.trialsofamiddleschoolteacher.blogspot.com
Harris County Department of Education
CASE for Kids
Tuesday Nov 03, 2020
Tuesday Nov 03, 2020
This week the Making Afterschool Cool podcast focuses on strategies to address challenges faced by youth with emotional/sensory regulation and executive functioning. Included in this discussion is the tendency of students with Executive Function Disorder (EFD) often being misdiagnosed or dismissed as negligent or lazy. To discuss strategies to change these trends is guest Elizabeth Sautter.
This episode, you will learn more about:
- Challenging the negative stereotypes students experience because of their unique social and emotional needs
- Supporting families and caregivers of children with EFD and other emotional/sensory regulation challenges
- Exploring the bottom-up and top-down approaches to address social-emotional learning
- Accessing the Make Social and Emotional Learning Stick and the Social and Emotional card decks as valuable resources for afterschool and out-of-school time professionals
- Utilizing new strategies added to the Make Social and Emotional Learning Stick 2nd Edition
Guest
Elizabeth Sautter is a licensed speech and language pathologist. Since 1996, she has worked with preschool to adult clients and their families in private practice, schools, and hospitals. She is an expert in the field of supporting those with social, self-regulation, and executive functioning challenges. Elizabeth has also co-authored two popular children’s books with Kristen Wilson, entitled Whole Body Listening Larry at Home and Whole Body Listening Larry at School (www.socialthinking.com), which help to break down what is expected and ways to keep others feeling comfortable in a listening situation. She has also published Make Social Learning Stick! How to Guide and Nurture Social Competence Through Everyday Routines and Activities (aapcpublishing.com), which provides 185 ideas for embracing teachable moments in the home and community to practice and build social and emotional skills. In her blog MakeSocialLearningStick, she shares her own parenting and life experiences raising two boys.
Resources
Elizabeth Sautter: Website
New Book, Make Social and Emotional Learning Stick! Practical activities to help your child manage emotions, navigate social situations & reduce anxiety
Free Marketing Course: 3 ways to parent a sensitive, reactive or anxious child and still feel good at the end of the day.
Harris County Department of Education
https://hcde-texas.org
CASE for Kids
Wednesday Oct 21, 2020
Wednesday Oct 21, 2020
This week the Making Afterschool Cool podcast is celebrating Lights On Afterschool. Introduced in October of 2000, Lights On Afterschool is the only nationwide event celebrating afterschool programs and the importance these programs play in the lives of children, families and communities. Now celebrating 20 years of highlighting afterschool programs activities, Lights On Afterschool has become a symbol of the afterschool movement and each year produces media coverage emphasizing afterschool activities across the country each year. The theme for the 2020 celebration is Youth Voice. To put a spotlight on Youth Voice, this episode of the Making Afterschool Cool podcast features the opinions of outstanding out-of-school time (OST) professionals regarding their perceptions of youth voice.
This episode, you will learn more about the:
- Importance of youth expressing their thoughts through voice, dance music, and other forms of self-expression
- Benefits of youth voice to the community, OST programs, and the youth themselves
- Methods to create a setting where youth can have a voice to help adults understand what students think, want, and hope
Guest
My guests for today are Charmette Jones, the founder and Executive Director of Shamelessly Saved Productions; Andrew Karnavas, founder of Yawp Records; Toni Candis with CASE for Kids, CASE Debates; Brandon Denton, Assistant Director, Education for the Mayor's Office - City of Houston; and Curtis Lemieux, Executive Director of Summer Programs for the YMCA of Greater Houston.
Resources
Lights On Afterschool
http://www.afterschoolalliance.org/loa.cfm
Harris County Department of Education
CASE for Kids
https://hcde-texas.org/afterschool-zone
Thursday Oct 08, 2020
Thursday Oct 08, 2020
The topic of this episode of the Making Afterschool Cool podcast is how to facilitate difficult conversations with youth regarding diversity, equity and social justice. Joining this conversation is Rann Miller, Sr., who will share some best practices for working with youth during times of uncertainty.
This podcast discusses:
- Strategies afterschool practitioners can implement to facilitate discussions regarding diversity and social injustice
- Importance of educators and afterschool directors evaluating their classroom/program culture, behavior management and casual interaction with students for bias with the new lens of anti-racism
- Differences between program culture that is student-centric and administrator-, program-, or outcome-centric
- Importance of afterschool programs and service providers utilizing students’ culture and community as the foundation for the learning environment
- Steps for afterschool programs interested in starting anti-racism dialogue or programs and how to include families
Guest
Rann Miller, Sr. is the Founder & Lead Writer for the Urban Education Mixtape. He has served as afterschool director for a 21st Century Community Learning Center program, a social studies teacher, mentor for first-year teachers, curricula writer, facilitator, and literary author and contributor. Most importantly Rann is a devoted husband and father.
Resources
Urban Education Mixtape
An Antiracist Roadmap for Discussing Tough Topics in Class
https://www.edutopia.org/article/antiracist-roadmap-discussing-tough-topics-class
Harris County Department of Education
https://hcde-texas.org
CASE for Kids
https://hcde-texas.org/afterschool-zone
Tuesday Oct 06, 2020
Tuesday Oct 06, 2020
This episode of the Making Afterschool Cool podcast is the second installation in the two-part series focusing on the impact of Texas’ rapidly changing demographic. With the recent attention on social justice and equity, there has been a greater need to emphasize racial and cultural sensitivity and awareness. This episode, Roberto Germán will join us to discuss embracing multiculturalism in an evolving community.
During this podcast, you will learn about:
- The importance of being in proximatity of others to build heality relationships
- Activities afterschool programs can provide to help youth understand they have a voice in social and racial injustice conversations
- Suggestions for creating youth inclusive spaces for dialogue between community members and police officers
- Strategies afterschool programs can use with English-language learners
Guest
Roberto is an educational leader who strives to shape school culture by reinforcing the core values of citizenship, scholarship, and collaboration. He is the co-founder of the Multicultural Classroom, an endeavor to address the national issue of effectively teaching in multicultural and multilingual classrooms and communities. He and his wife Lorena are activists, educators, writers, speakers, trainers, and parents. Throughout the years, they have impacted the lives of many with their passionate leadership and creative talents to create and inspire cultural diversity in communities across the state.
Resources
The Multicultural Classroom
https://www.multiculturalclassroomconsulting.com/
Harris County Department of Education
https://hcde-texas.org
CASE for Kids
Tuesday Sep 29, 2020
Tuesday Sep 29, 2020
This episode of the Making After-school Cool podcast is the first installation in the two-part series focusing on the impact of Texas’ rapidly changing demographic. Within the last twenty years Texas has shifted to a majority-minority state. With the recent attention on social justice and equity, there has been a greater need for emphasis on racial and cultural sensitivity and awareness. This episode, Roberto German will join us to discuss embracing multiculturalism in an evolving community.
During this podcast you will learn about:
- Tips youth serving intuitions can use to create a welcoming space for students from a variety of backgrounds
- Training after-school staff to address social justice, diversity, and multiculturalism
- Best practices for afterschool programs to involve families in these discussions
- Activities afterschool programs can provide to help youth understand they have a voice in social and racial injustice conversations
- Suggestions for creating youth inclusive spaces for dialogue between community members and police officers
- Strategies afterschool programs can use with English-language learners
Guest
Roberto is an educational leader who strives to shape school culture by reinforcing the core values of citizenship, scholarship, and collaboration. He is the co-founder of the Multicultural Classroom; an endeavor aimed to address the national issue of effectively teaching in multicultural and multilingual classrooms and communities. He and his wife Lorena are activists, educators, writers, speakers, trainers, and parents. Throughout the years, they have made an impact in the lives of many with their passionate leadership and creative talents to create and inspire cultural diversity in communities across the state.
Resources
The Multicultural Classroom
https://www.multiculturalclassroomconsulting.com/
Harris County Department of Education
CASE for Kids