One Family, One Neighborhood at a time
Overview: Reaching families who were more likely to be disconnected from services to support their pre-school child’s success in school was a major summer Soar in 4 goal. This included low-income families, families of color, immigrant families and families speaking languages other than English.
Comparing Sea Breeze Elementary to a Similar Manatee County Title I VPK Classroom
Comparing Sea Breeze Elementary to a Similar Manatee County Title I VPK Classroom
This summer, from the three participating neighborhoods, there were a total of 93 families enrolled in a pre-kindergarten classroom. Soar in 4 teachers reached 100% of the families for bi-weekly telephone conversations. 76% of all families participated in an on-campus family event or received a home visit.
Parents commented on how comfortable they felt attending the summer Soar in 4 events. Evidence of social cohesion in the Soar in 4 experience emerged in the following areas:
Engagement in Soar in 4 helped break social isolation.
Engagement in Soar in 4 provided cultural translation for families.
Collaborations among parents had practical benefits and extended beyond the Soar in 4 boundaries.
Personal relationships fostered family participation.
Parents report enhanced parenting skills, learned the importance of play and new ways to play with their children. Parents identified a range of ways in which they have changed as parents as a result of participating in Soar in 4 activities. Some of the changes had to do with new understanding of child development leading to a different way of interacting with their children. Other changes had to do with building their self-confidence to engage with their child in unfamiliar ways.
New understanding of child development.
New ways of interacting with their children.
Increasing self-confidence and willingness to move beyond comfort zones.
Increased awareness of resources available to families.
Many parents noticed positive changes in their children.
100% of the Soar in 4 children and their families were smiling and prepared.
0% of Soar in 4 children and their families demonstrated tears or separation anxiety
93 families were eligible to participate
71 families attended 1 or more event on campus or received a home visit.
93 families received a bi-weekly telephone call.
$2303.97 for supplies and materials
$562.50 Sea Breeze Elementary Co-Coordinator
$562.50 Sea Breeze Elementary Co-Coordinator
$1772.80 Sea Breeze Elementary Rising Kindergarten Teacher Stipend
$250.00 Sea Breeze Elementary Early Learning Teacher Stipend
$250.00 Sea Breeze Elementary Early Learning Teacher Stipend
$875.00 Ballard Elementary Coordinator
$250.00 Ballard Elementary Early Learning Teacher Stipend
$615.00 Rogers Garden-Bullock Co-Coordinator and Early Learning Teacher Stipend
$542.00 Rogers Garden-Bullock Co-Coordinator and Early Learning Teacher Stipend
$469.00 Rogers Garden-Bullock Co-Coordinator and Early Learning Teacher Stipend
$180.00 Early Learning Curriculum Unit Facilitator
$120.00 Early Learning Curriculum Unit Facilitator
$120.00 Early Learning Curriculum Unit Facilitator
In-Kind donations:
Dinners and Beverages
Incentives
$8,872.77
Total Cost of the Summer Soar in 4 Program at 3 Title I Elementary Schools in 8 early learning classrooms.
$95.40 Cost per Early Learning student to participate in the summer Soar in 4 program; 4 on campus family events with dinner, 1 family field trip with dinner, personal bi-weekly telephone calls by the student’s teacher, first day of school tips and support phone call, and 1 Yahoo Celebration for parents on the first day of school at each of the targeted schools.
.25 Cost for Early Learning families to participate in the summer Soar in 4 program; 2232 family members attended 4 on campus family events with dinner, 1 family field trip with dinner, personal bi-weekly telephone calls by the student’s teacher, first day of school tips and support phone call, and 1 Yahoo Celebration for parents on the first day of school at each of the targeted schools and received extension activities for their home.