Sep 11, 2023 | District, 21st Century, Bearcat Blast
Intentional Planning for Expanding Access to Summer Learning
As featured on the Michigan Department of Education's Summer Learning Page:
In 2021, Battle Creek Public Schools embraced a new vision of summer learning. Over the course of that spring, a district design team—including educators, social-emotional learning experts, administrators, and community partners—met for more than 25 hours to plan for the redesigned program that would make use of a wide range of community partnerships and evidence-based strategies for improving academic learning and whole child development. Their vision: “A student’s experience in the summer program will serve as a bridge to their academic and social/emotional success in their next year of school and invite them to return the following summer.”
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