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DOE outlines improvements to Summer Rising program for middle school students
2:20:27
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DOE representatives Emma Vadehra and Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos discuss improvements and plans for the Summer Rising program, particularly focusing on middle school students.
- Vadehra highlights the rigor of the impact analysis and emphasizes the significant positive impacts observed for vulnerable students, younger students, and in math.
- The DOE is working to improve academic programming in the morning, involving both teachers and CBO providers.
- Plans include integrating additional enrichment opportunities, including climate action activities and increased field trips.
- Chancellor Aviles-Ramos mentions the expansion of the New York City Reads program into middle schools to address reading challenges.
Emma Vadehra
2:20:27
Thank you for the question, and I appreciate the focus on older students for sure.
2:20:33
So I just wanna say a few things.
2:20:36
The summarizing impact analysis, and just to be clear, that was like a really pretty rigorous analysis, higher bar than we usually do for our programs.
Althea V. Stevens
2:20:46
But we should be doing it for all the programs, so
Rita Joseph
2:20:48
thank you.
Emma Vadehra
2:20:48
We should, but it's one of the things that actually hard to do in many cases because we don't have like students who didn't get the exact same intervention.
2:20:57
And so we're actually able to do that, and the statistically significant impact we saw for many of our students, for our most vulnerable students, for our younger students, for our students in math, is really very meaningful, including compared to programs like across the country when those are evaluated.
2:21:10
Always more work to do and always appreciate your feedback and pushes here, but we are quite proud of the work that was done between our team and our, of course, our CBO partners in that work.
2:21:21
As we look towards this summer and how we can continue to improve that work, I'd say there's a couple of different things we're doing.
2:21:27
One is we're working closely with our instructional colleagues to make sure we're supporting both our teachers and our CBO providers to continue to support the academic programming in the morning.
2:21:39
It's all a joint effort.
2:21:40
B is we're working again across our school communities and our school provide, our community, our CBO providers to think about where we can interweave additional enrichment opportunities.
2:21:51
We'll have a little bit of a climate action situation throughout the school day as well as in the afternoon, increase our field trips as well, and then continuing to ensure the academic work is aligned with the school year academic work we are doing.
2:22:05
I think those are the major quick hits in terms of that.
2:22:07
I know the chancellor wanted to touch briefly on some of the other middle school facing academic work we're doing as well.
Melissa Aviles-Ramos
2:22:13
Councilmember, just really really quickly, first, and thank you for talking about older students, especially because my background is with adolescents and I don't think we talk enough about them So the first thing is that the impact that we saw in the earlier grades is because in that half day academic component, we did have a science of we did honor, right, the science of reading training.
2:22:35
It wasn't the same curricula that we are using in our others in our schools during the regular months, but there is the there there there was work around the science of reading.
2:22:47
And so that didn't exist in the middle school piece because we hadn't expanded New York City Reads into middle school, which is something that we recently did and we're really excited about.