we often think of summer vacation is
this very idyllic time where kids are
having a lot of fun and there's no
pressure than this hill school but for
children from under-resourced
communities often this is a time where
they experienced summer learning loss
you read the first page and see if it's
right for you one thing to be concerned
about with children who are below their
grade level is that in summertime they
can slip farther behind
and so this program is unique because
that's not going to happen for these
kids they're going to be able to
maintain or maybe hopefully increase
their reading level over the summer with
some support from us we have this kind
of invisible line between what they call
lower and upper Pacific Heights or the
Western Addition and in this area and
the fact that we have University of San
Francisco students here we've using this
wonderful facility here in Pacific
Heights and that we're bringing nearly
200 kids from the Western Addition to be
a part of this community it really
blends this whole neighborhood in a way
that I don't always see done this is the
kind of thing a scholar would do if they
wanted to earn that extra five minutes
so like when the big hand is on the eat
they would get to go out and play early
there's a lot of distractions for kids
nowadays all types of social media
anything that's interactive this
technology-based but I think that
there's a lot of text rich stuff that we
can use to our advantage
so it's more about how we mobilize
ourselves as teachers and adults to get
kids to follow things that are more
academic and sort of and merge it with
with entertainment as well I can tell
this is a really good fun for you
because you've read this whole page you
know every single word on it and is that
something you're interested in yeah
walking bugs students can have a lot of
ill feelings about reading attached to
school and school failure so we take
reading and put it in a recreational
setting and into the community setting
so students can embrace reading as
life and part of what they like to do in
their free time