001[Music] This summer we are offering programming from our earliest learners in prek all the way up to high school to include um a new program this summer called Pathways to Progress. Pathways to Progress is a summer school program designed for recently arrived English learners. All of our students attending um have started in US schools since January 2024 or later. So we start our day with a morning meeting and each day we're either focused on a readaloud text or a short film. We have wordless films that relate to social emotional learning. >> Pip wanted to help other people actually >> you agree with that too. Thank you so much for telling me you agree with that. It's really important that they establish positive relationships in the first day or two so the students have a great
002experience. And so for us, not only is it the morning meeting brings in a social emotional component, but also the teachers are experts at creating those relationships and making the classroom a safe place to learn. And I think that's really important for the students during a short period during the summer. We then move into our literacy block where the students spend some time with me um doing a phonics lesson using UFly or they spend time with Mr. Head um working on decodables and then we have a group of students that go with Miss Garces, our native language support teacher who's working to bridge their Spanish language skills into English learning. And then we move into our math block um where again students rotate through the teachers um getting the math support that they need um
003and spend some time uh using some of our digital resources as well. By having co-eing models during summer school, we are also showing to others the power of collaboration. How their collaboration, their teamwork and all the expertise be coming together not only support them as professionals but support our students to become fluent, to develop literacy, math and to feel more comfortable in an environment that might be new for them. >> This is the first program I can honestly say that I enjoyed it from the very beginning. And I feel like the kids are truly giving or being given what they need. It starts out in large group. It has a small group component. It has an individual component. And I am thoroughly enjoying not only teaching it but seeing what the kids are learning. >>
004So we've built the curriculum this summer to have lots of opportunities for turn and talk where they're working with a partner or they're working in small groups and they have sentence frames and they have scaffolds to support their speaking. So they're getting the opportunities to engage with each other around academic content in a very low stakes environment because the classes are small and everyone who's here is someone who's here learning English. >> And with English learners, it really focuses on the content and the language in tandem. Sometimes we don't think about it like that, but mathematics has a language of mathematics and then there's also the content of mathematics. So this summer, the students will be in small groups working with two teachers and some students will even receive native language support that focuses on
005the language of mathematics and the content of mathematics or the content of language arts and the language of language arts. It's really important to think about those things in tandem. >> I think that was sful because she was trying to help the people. [Music] I'm getting to see my efforts paying off directly in the student learning. When I'm writing curriculum during the year, it often it's a more indirect. I'm sending it out to teachers for them to use. And this time the teacher is me and I'm getting to use it and I'm getting to implement it with students and see what works and see what doesn't work and see, you know, what I want to do differently next time. >> Having the ability as a teacher to go back to the person who's developed the
006program and say, "Hey, this is how we can tweak. This is how we can do things a little differently." It gives me a lot of confidence in our school system that you would send someone to come in to practice what it is that they preach, so to speak. I think that this is like a recipe for a great um summer program. >> Having all these previous experiences as an English learner myself and as a dual language educator, that helped me help students move forward. I am a strong believer that at the experiences you face through when you are a child or when you are growing up, there's always an adult or someone who is there to to push you and show you that there's no limits. And if we have those adults invested, we are
007running a very strong program. >> I feel that this was a strong program. I'd like to see it continued, but I'd love to see it expanded. A program like this could be set up for other students and benefit them as well.