Overview of Summer Acceleration Academies

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Over the past few months, schools convened their Recovery Community Corps (RCC) of teachers, staff, families, and community members to inform planning for this summer and beyond. You can now check out what your school’s Summer Acceleration Academy will look like this July and August.

Summer Acceleration Academies are forward-looking programs and designed to serve a targeted group of students at each school (approximately 10 to 35 percent) who require more focused support that provide both social emotional development and academic acceleration ahead of next school year.

Schools are reaching out to families directly to invite students to participate in a Summer Acceleration Academy. Find details for your school’s Summer Acceleration Academy by using the search box below. You can also find dates and time of the program in July or August, how many students can register, and more about the learning curriculum and fun activities planned.

Information below is current as of May 7, 2021, and may be subject to change. If you have questions about if your student is eligible, please contact your school.

2021 Summer Acceleration Academies

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School Name	Ward	Description of Summer Acceleration Academy	Projected Students Served (Eligible for Tier II and Tier III Supports Offered in Summer Acceleration Academy)	Start Date	Length of Program	Hours of Program
Aiton ES	7	Aiton will offer summer programming for PK-4th grade students. We are hoping to combine academics with enrichment opportunities in this summer program. PK4 through Grade 2 will focus Early literacy and foundational reading skills. Grades 3 and 4 will focus on math fluency and problem solving strategies.	50	7/12/21	Three Week Half-Day Program	9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Amidon-Bowen ES	6	Based on our MTSS data, our current kindergarten and first-grade students are in need of additional academic and social-emotional support. Teachers will focus on reading and math in small groups. Our program targets students with low attendance and engagement during virtual learning in an effort to move them closer to EOY grade-level goals.	30	7/12/21	Two Week Full-Day Program	8:00 am - 4:00 pm
Anacostia HS	8	Come join us for The Anacostia Summer Fest. Project Based Learning - Students will engage in projects aligned to the DCPS curriculum to enhance their reading, writing, and math skills. Student Enrichment - Students will participate in various workshops to gain essential post-secondary life skills; Student Wellness - Students will participate in mindfulness, SEL, and athletic activities.	80	7/26/21	Two Week Full-Day	9:00 am - 2:00 pm
Ballou HS	8	The Ballou Summer Acceleration Academy is focused on engaging experiences to help students build relationships with their classmates and essential skills for the next school year. Our rising 9th and 10th grade students will participate in daily SEL, team-building activities, and academic extension activities like case challenges and building competitions. Our rising 11th and 12th grade students will participate in SEL, college-readiness, and community service opportunities to prepare for graduation and beyond. All students that participate will also have the opportunity to earn a Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) that will build their tech skills and resume and make them more competitive for the work force.	250	7/12/21	Three Week, Full-Day Program (Monday-Thursday)	9:00 am - 1:00 pm with extended day on Thursdays (9:00 am - 3:00 pm)
Ballou STAY	8	While all students need to be reengaged, we need to prioritize tier II and III students. While the tier system looks differently at Ballou STAY, we know that our 9th graders generally struggled with virtual learning and did not attend classes this past year. Additionally, students that were new to Ballou STAY in the fall of 2020 never had an opportunity to meet teachers and staff in person. These students missed the most valuable secret ingredient for success at Ballou STAY, building a relationship meaningful relationship with a caring adult. The primary objectives for our summer focus include the following: Providing students with an enriching experience to introduce them to the Ballou STAY Way, develop habits of success, and create meaningful relationships with peers, teachers, and staff. Facilitating a project- based learning experience that highlights the culture, political, social, economic history, and current events of the District of Columbia as an introduction to the academic style and expectation of Ballou STAY.	80	Session I: 7/12/2021 Session II: 7/26/2021	2 two week full Day Program	10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Bancroft ES	1	Bancroft will provide students with a robust learning experience and supportive social emotional programming to engage and prepare them for the coming school year. We will target students furthest from opportunity and students identified through universal screening metrics and teacher input.	76	7/12/21	Three Week Half-Day Program	9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Bard High School Early College DC	7	Bard DC’s Summer Acceleration Academy is a time for us to reset as a school community and reacclimate to our social emotional and academic priorities. Students will be reintroduced to Bard DC climate and culture, with a focus on relationship building and building blocks of success (skills needed for academic success). Students will engage in academic projects, practice habits of successful early college students, engage in field trips, spend time relationship building, have community service opportunities, and preview overall academic expectations for the school year. Students will leave Summer Acceleration Academy with a clear understanding of how they will meet their academic, social emotional, and post secondary goals during the 2021-22 academic year.	330	8/2/21	Two Week Full-Day	Other
Barnard ES	4	Barnard Elementary School will convene its Summer Acceleration Academy on July 12, 2021 serving Pre-K4 (8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and Kindergarten through the Fifth Grade from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The morning sessions will be dedicated to unfinished academic learning based on the power standards, and the afternoons will be committed to social emotional learning, clubs, outdoor learning, and projects in our attempt to reacclimate students to returning to school in the fall semester.	215	7/12/21	Three Week Full-Day Program	(Pre-K4) 8:30 am - 1:00 pm (K-5) 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Beers ES	7	At Beers ES, we are going to offer the half-day, three week program from 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m., beginning July 12, 2021 through July 30, 2021. We will have PK4 to grade 2 for Tier II and Tier III identified students using MOY assessment data.	66	12-Jul	Three Week Half-Day Program	9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Benjamin Banneker HS	1	Banneker’s Summer Acceleration Academy will be an extension of our traditional Banneker Summer Institute (traditionally only focused on 9th-grade students). We will extend this opportunity to all Banneker students. The 9th and 10th-grade students will attend July 6 - July 23, 11th grade, July 26 - July 30, and 12th grade August 2 - August 6. The program will provide all students the opportunity to practice skills that will prepare them to transition successfully back to in-person learning and provide opportunities for skill development for the SAT assessment and provide rising seniors the opportunity to begin college applications. Banneker focused on the development of the entire student body. We hope that our summer acceleration programs will propel students toward day one success by providing intervention, enrichment, soft-skill development, and exposure opportunities. There will be four different acceleration academies (BSI) because the needs differ for students at each grade level.	275	7/6/21	Five week, half-day program	8:30 am - 12:30 pm Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays - 9th grade, Tuesdays and Thursdays - 10th grade, July 26 - 30 Monday - Friday - 11th grade and August 2 - August 6, Monday - Friday - 12th grade
Brent ES	6	The goal of Brent's Summer program is to provide a positive school experience for students in early elementary and strengthen student attention, engagement, motivation, persistence, curiosity, and executive functioning skills. We will do this by designing joyful and authentic experiences that support language development, physical development, and academic development. Our curriculum will focus on early literacy and explicit social-emotional development with a focus on independence, emotional regulation, relationship building, constructive collaboration, and social problem solving.	60	7/12/21	Three Week Half-Day Program	8:30 am - 12:30 pm
Brightwood EC	4	Our Summer Acceleration Academy will be an opportunity for a subgroup of students that are currently in PK-4th grade. This group of students will spend 2 weeks attending a full school day with K-5 staff members from their upcoming grade level for SY 21-22. The students that participate in this program will be engaged in daily academic, SEL, and wellness activities.	86	6/28/21	Two Week Full-Day Program	9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Brookland MS	5	The purpose of the Brookland Middle School Summer Acceleration Academy is to build students excitement for learning, re-engage them with our school community, and thoughtfully and intentionally respond to their specific SEL and academic needs. Students will be exposed to a rigorous and engaging curriculum that will provide Tier II and Tiered III academic interventions and supports including small groups and one-on-one instruction. This will be great opportunity for scholars to engage with both teachers and peers as we prepare to transition back into in person learning.	115	7/12/21	Three Week Half-Day	9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Browne EC	5	This summer Browne EC will be offering our families an opportunity to get a jumpstart on next school year. That's right, Browne will be offering our scholars an opportunity to get ahead during our Summer Acceleration Academy. Browne's Summer Acceleration Academy will begin Monday July 12th, 2021 and conclude July 30th, 2021. The school day will begin at 9am with scholars arriving at 8:30am and conclude at 2pm. Our school day will be full of fun and exciting learning opportunities for our Browne scholars, small group learning opportunities in reading and mathematics, and participation in PE and Dance.	106	7/12/21	Three Week Half-Day Program	9:00 am - 2:00 pm
Bruce-Monroe ES @ Park View	1	BMPV Global Citizens Summer Program: BMPV will offer academic and extracurricular activities prioritizing the prepared, loved and challenged component of the DCPS goal. The program will emphasize joy, self-advocacy, student agency and independence, and promote habits of mind (reading behaviors and standards of mathematical practice) with intentional cross-disciplinary connections. We will leverage culturally responsive pedagogy by creating authentic real word learning experiences for our dual language community which will include an intersectional, whole-child approach, meeting all of our MTSS identified cohorts, particularly race, langauge and ability.	110	8/2/21	Two Week Full-Day Program	8:30 am - 4:00 pm
Bunker Hill ES	5	Bunker Hill's Summer Acceleration Program will offer Tier II interventions along with a STEM focused curriculum for students. Students will engage in Do the Math, Leveled Literacy Intervention and Heggerty.	60	7/12/21	Three Week Half-Day Program	9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Burroughs ES	5	The JBES acceleration academy will focus specifically on the primary grades. The focus will be early literacy and numeracy. Students will also participate in enrichment activities in the afternoon portion of the program. Throughout the academy, we will also have Food Prints programming for STEM/Holistic connections for students as well as parents.	40	6/29/21	Two Week Full-Day Program	8:45 am- 3:15 pm
Burrville ES	7	Burrville will provide an Early Literacy focus with project-based instruction. This program will involve an early intervention/acceleration literacy plan and a number sense curriculum to develop numeracy skills. In addition, these skills will be strengthened through project-based instruction.	50	7/6/21	Four Week Half-Day Program	9:00 am - 1:00 pm
C.W. Harris ES	7	In alignment with the teaching staff that has expressed interest in summer acceleration academy, C.W. Harris will offer programming for PK-1 students and 4th grade students. PK-1 will focus on early literacy and foundational reading skills. 4th grade will focus on math (fluency and problem solving) and writing.	30	7/12/21	Three Week Half-Day Program	9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Cap Hill Montessori @ Logan	6	At Capitol Hill Montessori at Logan our Summer Acceleration Academy will provide a joyful, rigorous whole child focused experience. We will incorporate strong literacy practices through humanities and STEM while utilizing an outdoor environmental approach.	80	7/12/21	Two Week Full-Day Program	9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Cardozo EC	1	As one of the few Middle/ High School Education Campuses in the district, we have developed a plan that caters to our unique needs. “Cardozo Camp” is an opportunity for our students to reconnect with the school via programs that provide opportunities for self-expression and enrichment.	150	7/12/21	Three-week, full-day program with middle school and high school having varying morning/ afternoon options	9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Cleveland ES	1	We will use SEL goals, academic goals and incorporate STEM into our program as well.	65	12-Jul	Three Week Full-Day Program	9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Columbia Heights EC (CHEC)	1	Our summer acceleration academy will include a four week session for middle school, and a two week session for high school, differentiated by grade. The Academies will consist of integrated socio emotional, experiential, and academic activities. There will also be innovative activities and support services for parents and families.	680	Session 1: 7/19/2021 (MS); Session 2: 8/2/21 (HS)	four week for middle school, two week for high school	9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Coolidge HS	4	Collaborative cross-disciplinary approach that provides a multi-point meshed academic and SEL support system to help students progress towards (a holistic) growth, to set them up for success in the Fall 2021. Learning will be dynamic, with shared goals, themes, and material across classes. There will be opportunities for students to celebrate their points of growth through hands-on, multi-medium (culminating presentations) which establish a strong sense of community for both instructors and students, all centered on this shared learning.	80	8/2/21	One Week - Summer Acceleration; Two Weeks - Summer Bridge	10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Deal MS	3	The Deal Summer Academy will leverage our partnerships with AALEAD and Words Beats and Life Inc. Additionally, the DSA will include a Fit/Lit Camp. During Fit/Lit students will participate in Literature Circles and a variety of sports and physical fitness activities.	200	7/6/21	Four Week Half-Day Program	9:00 am - 12:00 pm

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