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National Afterschool Matters Initiative Practitioner Fellowships
United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania is accepting applications for the National Afterschool Matters Initiative Practitioner Fellowships in the Philadelphia area. The National Institute on Out-of-School Time (NIOST) at the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College, the National Writing Project (NWP), United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania, and the Philadelphia Writing Project, with generous funding support from the Robert Bowne Foundation, launched the National Afterschool Matters Initiative Practitioner Fellowship in Philadelphia in September 2008. Currently the Philadelphia Fellowship is being sustained primarily by local funders with some assistance from the Bowne Foundation.
Traditionally, the Practitioner Fellowship Program has been a professional development and leadership initiative for mid-level career out-of-school time professionals. This past year we tested a joint school and out-of-school time model in two cities while continuing the original model in Minneapolis. The new model engages practitioners from out-of-school time and classroom teachers in an effort to find ways that schools and afterschool programs can better work together to serve their youth population. Participants in the Practitioner Fellowship are selected by application, and through a year-long process engage in activities that inform program quality and improve practice through reflection and inquiry. One of the cities using the new "mixed" model of teachers and out-of-school time professionals is Philadelphia.
The Philadelphia program is based at the Philadelphia Writing Project at the Penn School of Graduate Education and has strong support from local intermediaries.
For more information please see the program overview and complete the National Afterschool Matters Practitioner Fellowship application. All applications must be accompanied by a Memorandum of Understanding signed by your immediate supervisor or school administrator. For more information call 215-665-2554 or email cyd@uwsepa.org.
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United Way's Center for Youth Development
1709 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia, PA 19103-1294
Phone: 215-665-2554
Fax: 215-665-2557
E-mail: CYD@uwsepa.org
