Georgia Hall, Ph.D., WCW associate director, senior research scientist, and director of the National Institute on Out-of-School Time, presented at the U.S. Department of Education 21st Century Community Learning Centers Conference for State Education Administrators in July. Hall joined experts from the U.S. Office of Safe and Healthy Students and the Pennsylvania Education Department to present on “Afterschool Program Safety and Health.”
In September, Hall hosted a webinar for U.S. Department of Education 21st Century Community Learning Centers State Education Administrators on the topic of “Healthy Eating and Physical Activity in 21st Community Learning Center Programs.” The webinar focused on promising approaches to promoting healthy eating and physical activity practices in out-of-school time programs; it also served as an introduction to the National AfterSchool Association Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Standards, and statewide and local implementation strategies. Hall and Lisette DeSouza, Ph.D., WCW postdoctoral scholar, presented a workshop on “SAYO (Survey on Academic and Youth Outcomes) Tools, Participation as Assessor, and Rater Bias” to out-of-school-time and summer program providers working in partnership with Boston After School & Beyond, also in September.
