History
Community based agencies began requesting support from Teach For America to provide teachers to help with critical literacy and academic needs of their constituents.
Through a grant from Barclays, Teach For America hired 28 teachers to work across five partnering agencies (Hilltop, Walnut Street YMCA, West End Neighborhood House, Latin American Community Center, and Shortlidge B&G Club) over the summer to serve as curriculum writers, counselors and instructional coaches.
Collaborative Camps presented findings to funding leaders in Wilmington, announcing capacity gains at each participating camp. Leaders from all participating agencies agreed to collaborate transparently, innovatively, and boldly to improve summer outcomes for campers.
Collaborative Camps participated in a data stepback identifying shared operational barriers to excellent summer camp operations. Learning and solutions that were generated became the foundation for SummerCollab’s future model.
EXPLO signed on as a new partner for The Summer Learning Collaborative, funding and facilitating a three-day Professional Development opportunity for all camp leaders associated with our budding network. The event was transformative. For more information about our EXPLO partnership, click here.
SummerCollab recruited Instructional Coaches and Curriculum Directors into each partnering program for a second year, empowering each agency to contract with teachers to support with curriculum writers.
East Side Charter School receives 21st Century Funding to partner with B&G Club and SummerCollab to execute summer learning programming for 150 campers.
SummerCollab partners with Let’s Go Learn and Learning Upgrade to offer camps the opportunity for a precise, accurate and immediate literacy assessment and support tool for campers.
SummerCollab reports reversal of summer learning loss in one or more literacy category for each camper, based on Let’s Go Learn results. Data stepback reveals camp satisfaction of Curriculum Director and Instructional Coaching Roles.
Data collection and analytics from assessment tool and course-related exit tickets are leveraged by camp teams to communicate progress to counselor teams.
SummerCollab launches as a standalone non profit, spinning out of Teach For America. Fraim B&G Club joins the SummerCollab Network.
SummerCollab receives funding from Longwood Foundation. SummerCollab sites attend second annual retreat hosted by EXPLO in Norwood, Massachusetts.
All Curriculum Directors and Instructional Coaches are hired for Summer 2016, effectively expanding their commitment window by six months. SummerCollab partners with Salsthon to launch Tyler’s Camp to offer high quality enrichment opportunities to campers at Salesianum.
Personalized coaching model launched to offer curriculum advisement and coaching to all camp counselors. Make Summer Smarter RFP is launched in partnership with United Way of Delaware to welcome “Expansion Camps” into SummerCollab Network.
Tyler’s Camp launches, engaging students in high quality enrichment. SummerCollab Leadership Teams launch, supporting over 2000 campers in Wilmington.
SummerCollab hosts first Summer Learning Celebration, honoring Walnut Street YMCA, Hilltop and Fraim for Summer Learning Awards. SummerCollab welcomes four new programs into The Network: Western Sussex B&G Club, Brown B&G Club, Kingswood Community Center, and Urban Promise.