The Solution
We use a three prong approach that pulls out all the stops during our five week summer reading course. Our innovations are simple, yet powerful earning our first pilot of 38 students, 415% gains on average!
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Parent Power!
We know that our parents are the single most powerful and unutilized asset in education today. Our approach starts with educating our parents about summer learning loss and then showing them what they can do about it in our weekly workshops.
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Classes that change the rules!
Leap Frog has altered the classical instructional design by incorporating massive amounts of movement, chanting, cheering, rapping and rhyming into our classrooms. This compliments our phonics based approach and our volunteer army which allows us to focus on small group instruction. Our classes run 5 weeks through the middle of summer for four hours a day.
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Learning Rewards!
We have enlisted local businesses to donate all sorts of goodies to incentivize attendance, behavior, and academic performance. Students receive awards daily, weekly and at a capstone awards dinner.