成人快播

By: Maya Festinger, site coordinator, 成人快播 Seattle

Summer slide? Don鈥檛 let these light, breezy words fool you. 鈥淪ummer slide鈥� is part of the common language amongst educators, and its mention is usually followed with a sharp sigh, a bow of the head, a painful shrug of the shoulders. It鈥檚 a term that has been cast in the spotlight as a barrier to education equity.

聽suggests that summer learning can make a huge difference in closing or opening gaps in students鈥� reading levels. Activities such as visiting the library, reading during family trips, or attending summer classes help a student build on their progress in reading from the school year. However, such activities may not be available to students of families with limited time and income. Although the progress of low-income students during the school year statistically equals that of 聽their more economically advantaged peers, the differences in their summer activities may set them up for disparity heading into the new school year 鈥� hence the term, summer slide.

This summer, 成人快播 Seattle and Highline Public Schools partnered to help South Seattle students beat the summer slide. By receiving 成人快播 instruction during the summer at no cost to their families, students have an opportunity to foster their growth as readers during the summer. At the Shorewood reading center, a fleet of 28 成人快播 volunteers will provide more than 100 hours of one-on-one literacy instruction to Highline Public School students for the summer.

As it turns out, the summer program has proven as much a learning opportunity for volunteers as it has for students. Jeraldi Gonzalez, 17, and Kristine Samonte, 16, are both high school interns volunteering for 成人快播 Seattle鈥檚 summer program. For both students, this is their first experience with a summer job.

For Jeraldi, volunteering with 成人快播 has allowed her to maintain a productive summer routine. 鈥淚鈥檓 actually doing something so I don鈥檛 feel as bored,鈥� she explains. 鈥淚t helps because I have to get up early in the morning, and I feel like I have all day to do things.鈥�

For Kristine, volunteering with 成人快播 has allowed her to explore unexpected avenues for her future career. She explained, 鈥淢y family is all in medicine, so joining [成人快播] has shown me I have other options.鈥�

In addition, life-long learner and 成人快播 volunteer, Lynn Roberts, 74, saw summer tutoring as an opportunity to expand her knowledge of literacy instruction. As a well-versed tutor in the Beginning Readers and Comprehension Readers curriculums, Roberts requested to tutor in the Emerging Readers curriculum level over the summer to learn about the first stages of literacy development. Her summer experience has given her new tools as a literacy tutor at all levels.

Today I worked with another student in the [Beginning Readers] curriculum, and it was so much fun 鈥� it was like, I understand this! I鈥檓 applying the concepts of the program, and it works!

Lynn has also enjoyed the continuity between the 成人快播 summer program at Shorewood reading center, and her school-year experience at the Sanislo reading center. 鈥淭o walk into a different school for the summer program, and to work the same program in a different building, with different students, in a different environment, and it all works the same way 鈥� it鈥檚 fun!鈥�