Summer Academic Bootcamp

I teach first grade at Lowe Elementary School; my class is made up of twenty-four very diverse seven year-olds; they come from all over the city of Louisville, from a variety of socio-economic situations. Each student brings a unique personality to our classroom community, and they all work hard to become “smarter and smarter” and to “go to college”. Thirteen students are boys and eleven are girls. Of these twenty-four students, three of them are English Language Learners. Additionally, eight students receive tier two interventions and two receive tier three interventions in reading. In math, five students are tier two and four are tier three. I also teach one student who receives ECE services for a developmental delay. Within my class there is a wide achievement gap.

Fitness boot camps can be run outdoor or indoor depending on the trainers and the exercises. They typically have 1-hour sessions. The training is aimed at working every part of your body with a variety of exercises. It would start with dynamic stretching and running, followed by a range of high and low-intensity exercises that may include the use of weights or heavy objects. They also include exercises using body weight such as press ups, pull ups and chin ups, and end with yoga stretches.

Educational opportunity program at Cal Poly Pomona and all other twenty three California State University campuses address the access and equity for these minority group of students in higher education to provide support services for low income, first generation students from historically disadvantaged backgrounds. These educational institutions have been successful in increasing both the higher education attendance rates and educational attainment of students from low-income, first-generation college, and underrepresented ethnic minority backgrounds.

Park Middle is located in Scotch Plains, New Jersey and is one of two middle schools within the town. On average there are 930 students enrolled at Park over the past three years (See Appendix A, Table A1). Additionally, Scotch Plains’ population consists of 77.4% White citizens, but is also composed of 11.1% of African Americans, 7.7% Asian, and 6.7% Hispanic citizens (see Appendix B, Table B1). The town’s population is largely representative of the school’s demographics (see Appendix C, Graph C1). When referencing the school’s performance on district benchmarks and state testing, Park Middle School has met most of their established targets. However, even with most established targets met, certain subgroups are in need of further attention

Your child’s educational development and enrichment should never be put on hold. The more consistently your child attends tutoring and enrichment sessions, the easier it’ll be for them to excel in their studies. That’s why the staff at FasTracKids in Park Slope suggests enrolling your child in summer enrichment programs. In fact, this learning center offers enrichment programs all year long, so they’re happy to nurture your child’s intellectual needs any time of the year.

The summer is like a black hole for the knowledge students learned the previous school year. The National Associations for Year-Round Education, Executive director, David Hornak, argues that the learning students lose over the summer when compounded over their school career can be equal to a year or a year and a half of learning loss by the time the student is entering high

It was also noted that while one teacher was expecting to have to reread several chapters of the class book, she was pleasantly surprised to only have to go back a few paragraphs. The most popular opposition to this theory is to assign summer homework, which some schools have already implemented into their curriculum, for the students to complete on their own time over break. However, even with school assigning summer work as a way to combat the summer slide, there is no way to enforce when, or how much effort, students put into their summer work, and nothing assigned over break can compare to what students learn in a school supervised environment with no distractions. Harris Cooper, director of the education program at Duke, confirms that when tested in the spring and fall, “kids generally slide in math and reading during the traditional summer break” (O’Sullivan), proving that two of the most real-world applicable subjects need to be continuously practiced upon to reach

Summer Early Entry was created to help students with developmental course requirements get a jump start on their academic career. Incoming freshman invited to attend the program will have the opportunity to choose from four classes and will complete up to seven credits during the five-week program.

Many of the parents have little academic attainment of their own, and are in need of academic support for themselves and for their children. Nearly all of the students come to the school from relatively low performing inner city public schools, where quality after-school and summer programs have not been available to them. They come to Freire Wilmington generally far below their peers in the state academically, and they are in need of more academic learning hours, more enrichment opportunities, and more opportunities to develop social skills and leadership abilities outside of the regular school hours. In short- they are caught in the cycle of poverty, and need a boost for themselves and their parents in the form of positive, extended, inspiring learning opportunities beyond the relatively few hours that can be provided to them during the school day and

Every June, millions of schoolchildren walk out of their classrooms and head toward summer fun—and academics is the last thing on their mind. And as every teacher will tell you, it can take weeks or even longer to catch kids up to the level they had achieved the year before and settle into making actual progress! With today's challenging curriculum and emphasis on Common Core test scores, can you afford to let your kids fall victim to "summer slide?"

This essay reflects my experience in EOP’s Summer Bridge Program and its capitals, making EOP a place of Community Cultural Wealth. Tara J. Yosso discusses capitals in a Community Cultural Wealth (CCW). According to Yosso, Community Cultural Wealth is “an array of knowledges, skills, abilities and contacts possessed and used by Communities of Color to survive and resist racism and other forms of oppression.”(p.157). There are many types of capitals contributing to Community Cultural Wealth; specifically, Aspirational Capital, Familia Capital, Social Capital, Navigational Capital, Resistance Capital, and Linguistic Capital. These capitals give less advantaged people advantages to succeed and survive.

Summer learning loss is only one major problem of the famous three month long vacation from school (Ballinger and Kneese 2). The traditional school calendar was created during a time when children needed to help work at the farm, and we are far past being a primarily

Elementary School: Backfield in Motion successfully launched a new pilot project in the 2016-17 school year. At the request of the school principal, we began serving students at the Inglewood Elementary School, a feeder school to our middle school program. With a Tennessee Value-Added Assessment System (TVAAS) baseline of zero, a score of 3 or better is considered good, while a TVAAS score of 5 and above is very good. Inglewood Elementary School’s TVAAS student growth was measured the prior year as minus seven. The Inglewood Elementary School was not making adequate yearly progress (AYP) toward improvement and needed a high-quality after-school tutorial program with a focus on reading, reading recovery, and mathematics for 3rd and 4th-grade

During the summer time kids forget a lot of the stuff they learned in the previous school year, so when they come back they spend a lot of their time reviewing what they already learned instead of expanding their minds and learning new things (Zubrzyck). During summer, kids forget what they already learned and their reading levels go down most of time. A lot of schools really push summer reading programs, but if we went to year-round schooling we

One of the biggest movements that is beginning to be implemented in many college campuses is that of the First Year Experience (FYE) program. Orientation can go only so far in making these first year students feel connected. Many institutions now build into the curriculum first-year seminars or other programs that bring small groups of students together with faculty or staff on a regular basis. These programs bring together aspects of both the academic and student affairs worlds. First Year Experience programs vary from campus to campus, but many of the characteristics that each share are tied to the common goal of helping those new freshmen feel at home and better adjusted to the expectations that are associated with being a college student.