By Betsy Finklea
Lynn Liebenrood, Director of Student Services, reported to the Dillon District Four School Board on May 17th that the district will be holding a Summer Reading Camp and a Summer Boost Program.
The Summer Reading Camp is intensive reading and math intervention for third graders. At the time of the meeting, 85 students were enrolled. The camp is four weeks in length from June 21-July 15 (no Fridays). The instructional day for students is from 8:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. and includes breakfast and lunch. Liebenrood said the camp is taught by licensed teachers, who have demonstrated success in reading. They used the Spring 2021 MAP scores to identify the students who needed to be enrolled. During the course of the camp, they will have a book fair, family night, read to parent day, and celebration day.
Grades 4 and 5 will also have a summer reading camp with intensive reading and math intervention that follows the same schedule as the third grade summer reading camp.
The Summer Boost Program is part of the 21st Century Learning Grant. It is also four weeks in length, but will include Fridays. It will address reading, math, and STEM. The student instructional day will be from 8:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m., and breakfast and lunch is served. The program will be taught by certified and classified staff and will include K-3 students at East Elementary, South Elementary, and Stewart Height Elementary and K-5 students at Lake View Elementary. They will also go on field trips as part of the program.
There will also be a Summer Middle School Program for intensive reading and math intervention for grades 6-8 at Dillon Middle School and Lake View High School. This will be from 8:00 a.m. until 12 noon, five days a week.
The Summer High School Program for Dillon high School and Lake View High School will take place from 8:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m. five days a week. Initial credit and credit recovery will be offered.
Liebenrood said they have all of the schools involved because they are trying to get students where they need to be due to loss of learning.