Beaverton School District Summer School Programs
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Beaverton Rural Schools is accepting Schools of Choice applications for students residing in contiguous intermediate school. In the program.
Some THPRD camps include outdoor aventures, like this Camp Green trip to Frog Lake. THPRD summer camp registration is underway!
Hundreds of half-day and full-day camps are available. Join us for a fun, active and safe summer!
Here are a handful of camps that will be available:. 'Tween Cuisine (Cedar Hills). Empower TEEN Girls Camp (Cedar Hills). X-treme Camp. (Conestoga). Jedi Training Camp (Conestoga).
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Youth Tech Inc. Animation Camp (Conestoga).
Book Illustration, Creative Writing & Book Binding Camp (Conestoga). Little Cooks in the Kitchen (Garden Home). Spy Camp (Garden Home). Stage Stars (Garden Home). Minescratch Video Game Design (Garden Home). Survivor Games (Nature Center). Sports Madness (Athletic Center) Have more questions about camps?
Call the administration office at 503-645-6433 or the facility hosting the camp you'd like to learn more about.
Terrance Moore knows this is serious stuff. The junior at Aloha High fell behind in literature/composition credits his sophomore year and is catching up this summer in a credit recovery course. He's a smart kid, but he skipped too many classes.
'That was a habit that started my freshman year,' he said, adding that he has no plans to skip in the future. 'I think it had a lot to do with growing up,' Moore said. 'High school is more important than you think. This is a job. This is serious.' Nearly 900 teenagers took advantage of summer classes at all five Beaverton high schools to catch up on credits, get ahead in math or prepare for freshman year.
It's the first time in more than a decade that the district has offered summer school at all of its high schools. Previously, the district lacked funds for such summer courses, but an experiment by counselor Kacey Farrens and an assistant principal Greg Therrien last summer proved the programs can pay for themselves, if students are charged a fee.
Westview also kept tabs on the summer-school students during the regular school year and found they improved academically. That sold district leaders on the idea and they added the summer programs to the 2014-15 budget. Each school received $80,000 to ensure all students, regardless of ability to pay, could attend. Westview covered its costs last year with $80,000 in fees but was unable to reduce the costs for low-income students.
The district is covering at least a portion of the costs this summer for low-income students to take part. Fees collected from students will be returned to district coffers, Farrens said. The district's finance department is estimating the total cost at $345,000 for the summer of 2014. 'We have received fees of $164,000 so the net cost to the district is expected to be approximately $181,000,' said Gayellyn Jacobson, administrator for Fiscal Services.
This summer isn't a model year for the programs. They got a late start on marketing the courses. While Westview got the word out in February, principals at the other schools didn't know they would be funded until after the budget passed in May.
Classes started in mid-June and end July 17. The schools scrambled to get the word to middle school counselors to alert incoming freshmen and to their own students who were lacking credits or wanted to take accelerated courses. Enrollment didn't reach what schools had hoped for, but it was a start. 'We're really thrilled that we can offer it at all,' said Rebecca Bair, summer school co-coordinator at Southridge High. Southridge managed to find enough students to make all three programs feasible., and Aloha ended up combining students at a single school for some accelerated classes. Beaverton High added a work samples class to help students meet state requirements to prove proficiency in math, reading and writing.
Class sizes were about 20 students or less. Districtwide, the freshman introductory program known as 8.5 pulled in between 25 and 42 students per school at $75 per kid. The classes are not focused on academics as much as developing good habits and people skills for high school, said Kristin Heintz, summer school co-coordinator at Aloha High. No earphones, no roaming the halls, get to class before the bell rings, she said.
'A big focus is how to build relationships with peers, teachers and others, acceptable behavior, when to ask for help,' Heintz said. Students will learn to manage responsibilities, self-direct their learning and work effectively in a group, according to the curriculum. 'The transition is hard,' she said.
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'Those little guys stand out (among other students).' One of the keys for incoming freshmen is to learn the layout of their new schools. That wasn't possible at Sunset High this summer because the building is getting a new roof. The 38 freshmen took their 8.5 classes at the Health & Science School. 'We are making the best of it at HS2,' said Christy Batsell, Sunset High assistant principal.
'It's not the ideal place, but we do have some of the same teachers (the students will have as freshmen).' The freshman year often determines whether the student graduates four years later, program coordinators said. 'If students complete their ninth grade year with six or more credits, they are more likely to graduate,' Farrens said. Students in the 8.5 classes are a mix of kids recommended by counselors to give them a needed boost and those who wanted a sense of what was to come in the fall.
Each will receive a credit for the course. Data from Westview's pilot summer school last year showed a marked increase for freshmen compared to their eighth-grade year in the core classes – 89 percent passed language arts, 86 percent passed math, Farrens said. They struggled a bit in physics with 68 percent passing, so Westview added physics to the summer school program this year. Students taking credit recovery classes also improved. Small seo tool.
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As for the accelerated courses, dozens of students finished an entire year of geometry and algebra II in six weeks of intensive coursework and a $700 fee. 'I feel strongly that we should have year around school accessibility to students,' Farrens said. 'The summer slide. When are we going to make a systemic change for what we know is terrible for the kids. Summer enrichment is essential to boosting up our students who need more.'
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