The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
NAF launched NAF Track Certified Hiring at NAF Next. The program gives students who earn a NAF certificate a leg up with job opportunities with 10 of the nation's leading companies.
Bridging the gap between poverty and success is a challenge for all academies. This session will highlight the obstacles associated with students who are economically disadvantaged and provide practical solutions for supporting students facing these problems.
What Difference Does it Make-- Reviewing Evidence on School- Employer Partner...NAFCareerAcads
The seminar will present an authoritative overview of recent national and international research into the impact that employer engagement in education has on young people as they move through schooling and ultimately into the work world. Learn how and why employer interventions can have positive impacts on the success of young people.
Teacher externships are a powerful way to revitalize your teaching and see firsthand how classroom skills and knowledge translate to the workplace. Come learn the first steps of planning a successful teacher externship program, hear ideas on where to look for support and sponsorship and view templates and checklists to get you started on setting up a valuable workplace experience.
SCAS Panel Session - Unique Solutions and Practical IdeasNAFCareerAcads
NAF developed a next-generation assessment system designed to model real-world demands, including the integrated application of academic, career-technical and workforce readiness skills. Designed to bridge the gap among high school career-technical programs, post-secondary course articulation, admission policies and workforce readiness, Student Certification Assessment System (SCAS) assesses a broad range of content and skills through rigorous end-of-course exams and evidence-based portfolios combined with supervisor and teacher feedback. This open and interactive panel session will explore benefits and opportunities while providing a problem-oriented approach to implementing and supporting SCAS. Panelists will represent different perspectives, and will be able to offer unique solutions and share practical ideas.
Scaffolding Your Work-Based Learning Program for Grades 9-12NAFCareerAcads
Do you want to have a concrete action plan for implementing work-based learning into your academy? This session will provide your academy with the scaffolding tools necessary to create a four-year sequenced plan for your students. See how a strong work-based learning plan can include meaningful activities, lesson plans as well as development procedures for utilizing your community and local businesses in the classroom.
SAS Programming for High School - Giving Students the Power to KnowNAFCareerAcads
SAS has created a tremendous opportunity for high school students to learn skills that involve not only programming but critical thinking and problem solving. This workshop will explain SAS, show why it should be taught, explore what it looks like in the classroom and highlight the connection between SAS and the NAF AOIT curriculum.
Providing Students a Quality Internship - Keys to SuccessNAFCareerAcads
Providing a quality internship for every student is one of our main objectives at NAF. This interactive panel discussion will address key steps to ensure the NAF internship is a game-changing experience for every student and will clarify the role everyone – educators, employers, students and parents – needs to play. Best practices will also be shared, enabling participants to draw from their experiences and share their own perspectives.
Lessons Learned on the Journey to Create a Great Intern ProgramNAFCareerAcads
Come hear how to design and implement a successful internship program from a team that's built a great model in Dallas through a partnership between the Dallas Independent School District and Capital One.
This interdisciplinary visual design project brings together topics from government, English, health and digital design for real world analysis. Students study the effects of food choices on personal health, the environment, the economy and the influence of marketing and packaging on those choices. Students learn that what they eat not only affects their health, but the health of the world. Partners from the design and health care field coach students as they develop and design their food package.
With the help of research and district experts, this session will cover how to identify the right data to highlight for specific audiences, how to develop the best formats to present data in various situations and how to access the available tools and documents that NAF provides to assist with results-based marketing.
With the help of research and district experts, this session will cover how to identify the right data to highlight for specific audiences, how to develop the best formats to present data in various situations and how to access the available tools and documents that NAF provides to assist with results-based marketing.
Project Lead The Way - A K-12 STEM Program of StudyNAFCareerAcads
Project Lead The Way (PLTW) offers an engaging K-12 STEM curriculum. This session will discuss PLTW programming at all levels and how it incorporates activity, project and problem-based learning to help students think critically, problem solve and collaborate.
Program Data 101 - From Data Center to Academy Assessment to Action Planning–...NAFCareerAcads
Designed for new academies, this session will focus on ways to meet critical deadlines and use data to inform your academy improvement plan. Academies will share their timelines and strategies for collecting data, meeting with leaders to score the academy assessment and how they use results to create action plans for improvement. The session promises to be informative for new academies looking for help in developing good habits for involving others and creating a plan for their academy development efforts.
