PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Trenton Price, Executive Director of Salvadori Center, on Summer Rising Program
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Trenton Price, Executive Director of Salvadori Center, testified about their organization's involvement in the Summer Rising program and the importance of engaging STEM education during summer to prevent learning loss. He emphasized the value of hands-on, project-based learning experiences that connect to real-world applications.
- Salvadori Center provides STEM+Arts education services across New York City, serving over 12,000 students in 140 schools and NYCHA community centers.
- Their Summer Rising programs include group projects to solve real-life challenges and field trips to architecture, design, and engineering firms.
- Price stressed the importance of making summer learning engaging, relevant, and collaborative to combat summer learning loss effectively.
Trenton Price
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That's right.
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Thank you, Chair Stevens.
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Chair Joseph, and members of the committee on Children of Youth And Education.
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My name is Trenton Price.
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I'm the executive director of the Salvadori Center.
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I'm a former middle school teacher, school leader, and district leader in arts education.
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For the New York City public schools before joining Salvador.
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At Salvador, for context, we provide STEM education services that stem plus the a for arts and in our case architecture to schools, after school sites and night shift community centers across the Five boroughs, focusing on the built environment.
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Last year for context, we taught over 12,000 students in a 140 schools and NYCHA community centers.
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Our goal is to make STEM and the arts come alive for each students and to foster the soft skills like collaboration, creativity and problem solving, just like real life architects, designers, and engineers.
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We're grateful to have the support of this council through multiple Casa and digital inclusion and literacy grants, as well as the after school enrichment and speakers initiative at numerous nitrous sites across the city.
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While much of our work takes place during the school year, both in school and out of school, I'm here to discuss summer.
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Salvador has partnered with numerous summer pro summarizing sites over the past few years to provide hands on project based steam education.
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As an educator, I know firsthand that summer learning loss is very real.
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To address this, summer programs must be engaging, rooted in relevant content, and allow young people to collaborate, create, build, and test ideas.
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This is why we are so passionate about supporting the great work of summer rising.
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The vision that summarizing is created by inviting all children, especially those in need of intervention, to join and creating fun and engaging experiences is very powerful.
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In Salvatore summarizing programs, for example, students work to in groups to design and create solutions to real life challenges.
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And then they take field trips to architecture design and engineering firms.
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This real world application of the content is exactly what peaks young people's interests and makes the learning come alive in a relevant way for them in their community.
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This is what makes summarizing so powerful in our experience.
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I thank you for facilitating this hearing and for your commitment to supporting young people across our city.
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And for your commitment to providing really robust and meaningful learning experiences over the summer.
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We're grateful to be able to serve New York City's children.
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We hope to support the work of hands on project based learning in summarizing sites for years to come.
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Thank you.
