Ep 101: Highlighting Spotivity, an Online Tool Linking Youth to After-school Opportunities

This episode of the Making after School Cool podcast focuses on Spotivity. Spotivity is an interactive search, mapping, and education app that helps students and parents make the best decisions about their after-school activities. To discuss Spotivity is its founder Montana Butsch.

During this podcast you will learn the following:

1. Why are extracurricular and after school activities beneficial to secondary students
2. Why is it important for school counselors and administrators to have knowledge of what students are engaged in during non-school hours.
3. How can the lack of awareness of the variety, and number of activities available to students, hamper their educational, social, and emotional development?
4. An overview of Spotivity and how it benefits students, parents, school administrators and providers

Guest

Montana Butsch is the Founder of Spotivity. Spotivity supports after school programs to increase enrollment and participation rates but also enables kids and their parents to make the best decisions about how to best use their time outside of school hours. Prior to Spotivity Montana Butsch was the founder and CEO of major sports non-profit organization which has served thousands of inner-city children in Chicago and who has formed extensive ties with Chicago business, philanthropy, and government leaders.

Resources

Spotivity

www.spotivity.com

 

Montana Butsch

montanabutsch@gmail.com

 Mike Wilson

mwilson@hcde-texas.org

 Harris County Department of Education

https://hcde-texas.org

CASE for Kids

https://hcde-texas.org/afterschool-zone