Date: February 11th
Time: 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Place: New Hope Academy
Multipurpose Room
We will have a special event this month regarding summer learning as we plan for the future. Jennifer Brady,
Director of Professional Development, National Center
for Summer Learning will
come to NHA to lead a discussion about summer programming.
1. Preparing
an effective summer program to meet the needs of your students
2. Discuss
how your summer program can grow and sustain itself using partnerships
About the National Center
for Summer Learning
The mission of the Center for Summer Learning is to create
opportunities for high-quality summer learning for all young people. The center
is committed to expanding summer learning opportunities for disadvantaged
children and youth as a strategy for closing the achievement gap and promoting
healthy youth development. Based at the Johns Hopkins University School of
Education, the center works to improve program availability and quality, build
public support and influence public policy and funding. For more information,
visit www.summerlearning.org.
Presenter's Biography
Jennifer Eden Brady provides the
strategic direction for the Center's professional development
initiatives. She oversees the design, development, delivery, and
evaluation of the Center's learning initiatives including the Center's national
conference and online graduate certificate program in Out-of-School Time
learning. Since November 2005, Ms. Brady has led the Center in training over
2000 providers who collectively serve more than 2 million young people. Ms.
Brady is a principal author of the Center's publication, Making the Most of
Summer: A Handbook on Effective Summer Programming & Thematic
Learning.
Over the past 10 years, Ms. Brady
has worked with summer programs in rural and urban communities.
Prior to joining the organization, Ms. Brady taught elementary school in Baton
Rouge, LA, where she designed and facilitated an enrichment-based summer
program for third graders. Ms. Brady has also recruited and trained new
teachers for The New Teacher Project-Baton Rouge and Teach For America.
Ms. Brady has a Master of Arts in public policy from Johns Hopkins
University where she is a
faculty member. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Allegheny College
in Meadville, PA, with a self-designed major in
creativity.
