The Scholastic Opportunity for Academic Readiness (SOAR) Afterschool Program is a dedicated literacy and learning initiative that aims to close the educational gap for Kindergarten to third grade students facing academic challenges.
The program’s innovative curriculum will be a mixture of a literacy-centered curriculum, personalized tutoring, and homework assistance. Engaging academic learning will be paired with art, cultural exploration, word games, mindfulness practices, and other enrichment activities. SOAR is designed to meet children where they are academically by catering to both auditory and visual learning styles and providing one-to-one academic case management that tracks and responds to individuals’ needs throughout the program.
Test scores for economically disadvantaged San Diego Unified School District students declined by 4.1% in English and 7.7% in Math, exacerbating already stark academic performance disparities from their more affluent counterparts. The potential long-term impacts of this imparity cannot be underestimated. Disadvantaged students with low reading proficiency are more likely to drop out of high school and less likely to go to college. According to the National Assessment of Adult Literacy, high school drop-outs are 5x more likely than graduates to be arrested in their lifetime, and ⅔ of students who cannot read proficiently by the end of 4th grade will end up in jail or on welfare.
SOAR Curriculum will provide a robust curriculum focusing on literacy skills, aiming to elevate academic performance in reading and writing.
Improve Academic Performance in Reading and Writing
Enhance Multidisciplinary Academic Achievement
Improve School Attendance Rates
Facilitate Comprehension for English as a Second Language (ESL) Learners
Create a Safe and Constructive Learning Environment
Your generous donation will directly support SOAR's mission to empower San Diego's youth.
Here's how your contribution will be used:
Individualized Support: Donations will enable us to provide personalized academic case management, ensuring that each student receives the support they require to succeed.
Socioemotional Wellness: Your contribution will help us offer essential tools and resources to promote students' well-being.
Curriculum & Enrichment Activities: Donations will support continuous curriculum development and a variety of enriching activities that will help students develop a well-rounded education and broaden their horizons.
“My child has come home excited about the work they are doing. They struggle with reading and writing, so it's great to see them excited about it.”
“My daughter enjoyed going to camp every day. It was an excellent balance of reading, writing, and fun. She looked forward to going every day and is already asking when she can do it again.”
By providing a comprehensive, varied and fun educational experience for students with needs beyond the standard classroom teaching, we aim to make learning more equitable and effective. Our unique equity-focused literacy curriculum is designed and offered by leaders of color that deeply identify with the students’ experiences of marginalization, economic hardship, adoption, and immigration—allowing youth to see themselves represented at all levels of leadership throughout our program.
Our curriculum fosters culturally affirming spaces by teaching about a variety of traditions, cuisines, languages, and cultivating conversations around the importance of inclusion. We ensure a diversity of participants at all levels of outreach and education, enabling BIPOC students to see themselves represented in a wide variety of dynamic work roles.
Our Explore Next Door & SOAR programs support the wellbeing of the whole child—nurturing mental, physical, and socioemotional health at the core of innovative education enables students to thrive inside and out. Our multicultural enrichment programs provide underserved youth with behavioral health tools, personal development, outdoor experiences, community engagement, career pathways, tutoring, and mentoring.
BSF has seen first hand how a caring adult, culturally affirming curriculum, individualized academic assistance, mindfulness tools and enrichment activities integrally empower our youth to reach their full potential. Our program is unique in that it centers multicultural inclusivity and mindfulness practices to nurture socioemotional regulation, ensuring children feel welcomed and supported in all spaces.
1507 E. Valley Parkway,
Suite 3 #120
Escondido, CA 92027
info@bipocsupportfoundation.org
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