Join us for Brews for Afterschool!
By Katie Landes, Director Join the Georgia Statewide Afterschool Network (GSAN) for the inaugural Brews for Afterschool. It promises to be a festive evening, offering guests an opportunity to play
By Katie Landes, Director Join the Georgia Statewide Afterschool Network (GSAN) for the inaugural Brews for Afterschool. It promises to be a festive evening, offering guests an opportunity to play
By Katie Landes, Director Approximately 100,000 children in Georgia under the age of 18 live with serious mental health conditions. Many of these children do not receive the necessary treatment.
By Katie Landes, Director As the school year wraps up, we are getting excited for summer learning programs across the state to kick into action! Summer learning programs are
What’s the difference between lobbying and advocating? By Katie Landes, Director Both advocating and lobbying are critical to raising awareness of and support for afterschool. For afterschool in particular, the
By Katie Landes, Director Earlier this month, afterschool got some much deserved love and attention from education leaders, elected officials, athletes, and celebrities at the 2017 National Afterschool Summit, “Ready
By Katie Landes, Director of GSAN 2016 is almost over! It has been a big year for afterschool in Georgia and for us here at the Georgia Statewide Afterschool Network.
By Katie Landes, Director Last week, I joined over 150 afterschool providers and advocates on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC for the Afterschool Alliance’s 2016 Afterschool for All Challenge. As part of
By Katie Landes, Director of GSAN, for Get Georgia Reading’s blog It’s official: The long-awaited Georgia Afterschool & Youth Development (ASYD) Quality Standards were released December 1. And this is kind of a
By Katie Landes, Director It’s official! Today marks the release of the long-awaited Georgia Afterschool & Youth Development (ASYD) Quality Standards. Why this is kind of a big deal Over
By Katie Landes, Director of GSAN Lights On Afterschool is less than 3 weeks away! This week-long event, which is part of the nationwide Afterschool Alliance’s 16th annual Lights On Afterschool, calls attention to
By Katie Landes, Director of GSAN Last week, the U.S. Senate voted to pass the Every Child Achieves Act, a bipartisan bill to rewrite the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA),
By Katie Landes, Director of GSAN When the draft Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), otherwise known as No Child Left Behind, reauthorization bills were introduced in Congress earlier this year,
New Video: What Is 21st CCLC? By Katie Landes, Director of GSAN Have you ever wanted to learn more about what afterschool programs in Georgia look like? Wanted to tell others
By Katie Landes, Director of GSAN Last week, I traveled to D.C. to join over 2,000 afterschool professionals and advocates for the National Afterschool Association’s (NAA) 2015 Convention and the Afterschool
By Katie Landes, Director of GSAN Have you been keeping up with the ESEA reauthorization process? If you’re all up to date, skip to the bottom to find out how you