For more than two decades, the Arizona Center for Afterschool Excellence has worked to promote accessible, high-quality expanded learning opportunities for all Arizona children and youth by focusing on professional… read more →
We are so excited to share the Awards of Excellence Award Winner videos for 2016! The Arizona Out-of-School Time Awards of Excellence are great ways to recognize the outstanding programs, staff, and… read more →
The Afterschool Alliance’s Afterschool Snack has an update on a new bipartisan bill for Career and Technical Education (CTE). The House Committee on Education and the Workforce is taking on CTE with… read more →
Next in the lineup for our Spring Professional Development Series is another great workshop to develop your repertoire of out-of-school time youth program skills! Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES): Best Practices for… read more →
AzCASE encourages out-of-school time programs across Arizona to submit nominations for the CONNECT2STEM Awards. The second annual CONNECT2STEM Awards, presented by Cox Communications in partnership with AZ SciTech, will honor STEM Connectors… read more →
AzCASE Executive Director, Melanie McClintock was joined by Northland Preparatory Academy’s Kaci Pilcher Heins this week on PBS Arizona Horizon to discuss STEM in out-of-school time programs. Kaci brought along… read more →
Congratulations to our very own AzCASE Board Member and Tolleson ESD Superintendent, Dr. Lupita Hightower, for receiving the 2015 National Leadership Award from Jobs for America’s Graduates (JAG) at the 35th Anniversary Leadership Awards Luncheon in Washington,… read more →
We’re thrilled to announce that Fausto A. López, Afterschool & Expanded Learning Specialist with the Learning Supports Network at American Institutes for Research, is the keynote speaker for the 2015 School’s… read more →
We’ve reached an exciting new milestone with the Make It Count Pledge: 600 Arizona out-of-school time programs have signed! The 600th pledge came from Sage Academy, a charter school based… read more →
AzCASE and Cox Communications are proud to announce the recipients of the 2015 STEM Grants for out-of-school time programs. Now in their fifth grant cycle, the STEM Grants are designed to… read more →
