Program Overview

Summer Learning provides PreK-12 with content acceleration, social and emotional learning experiences, credit recovery and credit acceleration opportunities.

Elementary Programs

Bridge to Kindergarten

This program prepares students for a successful transition to school.

Target Audience: Students with little or no formal pre-school education.

Program Length: Three weeks, four hours per day.

The program:

• Supports students with no or limited Pre-Kindergarten/Kindergarten experience.
• Develops executive functioning skills.
• Provides opportunities for social-emotional learning.

Students:

• Form relationships with school staff and classmates.
• Participate in experiences using kindergarten materials.
• Learn classroom and school routines.
• Work on social and emotional skills.
• Strengthen executive functioning skills.

Summer Olympians Aspire and Reach (SOAR)

This program prepares students for success in the next grade.

Target Audience: Current K-6 grade students who perform below grade level in Reading and Math.

Program Length: Three weeks, four hours per day.

The program

• Revisits essential Mathematics and Language Arts standards.
• Scaffolds content.
• Provides opportunities to communicate, collaborate and critically think with a small group of their peers.
• Boosts literacy and numeracy practices for all students, including English learners.

Students

• Work on social and emotional skills.
• Strengthen essential math and reading skills.
• Collaborate in small groups.
• Think critically.
• Set goals and reflect on their progress.

Middle School Program

IMAGINE

This program prepares students for success in the next grade.

Target Audience: Current 7th-8th grade students.

Program Length: Three weeks, four hours per day.

The program:

• Revisits essential Mathematics and Language Arts standards
• Scaffolds content
• Provides opportunities to communicate, collaborate and critically think with a small group of their peers
• Boosts literacy and numeracy practices for all students, including English learners

Students:

• Work on social and emotional skills
• Strengthen essential math and reading skills
• Collaborate in small groups
• Think critically 
• Set goals and reflect on their progress

High School Program

Credit Recovery Academy

This program closes achievement gaps.

Target Audience:

• Students who need to recover a standard high school course credit.
• Students who need to earn a high school verified test credit.
• High school English learners who need to boost literacy and numeracy practices.

Program Length: Three weeks, five hours per day

The program:

• Supports recovery of one high school course credit.
• Assists acquisition of a high school verified credit.
• Supports on-time graduation.
• Supports numeracy and literacy skill development for English learners.

Students

• Set goals and reflect on their progress.
• Work on social and emotional skills.
• Think critically and creatively.
• Engage in authentic tasks and project-based learning.
• Make presentations of learning.
• Think critically and creatively.
• Research.
• Create meaning.
• Apply their understanding.

Scope of Impact (Summer 2021)

2021 Programs	Number of Schools	Number of Students
Bridge to Kindergarten	111	1,848
Bridge to First	139	1,747
SOAR	142	8,522
IMAGINE	27	1,894
Credit Recovery Academy	27	3,504