Beaverton School District
Here’s how the Beaverton School District is focusing its NSIF resources:
Leadership Academy
(Year 1: $350,000, Year 2: $500,000,Year 3:$490,000 )
Increasing Student Proficiency. The $500,000 grant to the Beaverton School District will support the Middle School Proficiency Leadership Collaborative, an innovative program that will bring 10 school teams together with Nike leaders to create a proficiency-based learning system. The grant will support and enable teacher leaders at middle schools as they implement the Beaverton Proficiency Learning System.
Leap-Start Summer Academy
(Year 1: $50,000; Year 2:$100,000, Year 3: $110,000)
The Leap Start program provides 180 Beaverton students with five weeks of summer school to help them enter kindergarten or first grade ready to succeed. Funded with a $100,000 grant from the NSIF, the innovative program serves students from seven Beaverton primary schools who have been targeted for extra assistance. A unique feature of this summer programs is that it brings school into the community. Instead of holding classes in a school building, teachers and staff set up schools in neighborhood and housing community centers.
In its third year, the Leap-Start Academy provides identified, at-risk students with head start in their socialization and literacy skills, as well as developing successful community and parent partnerships that support learning and student achievement. The program gives them a “leap start” by preparing them to be successful in a school and classroom setting with their peers. The program was created and funded through a partnership between Beaverton School District and the NSIF and builds on a prior investment of $100,000 by NISF and a program piloted by the Beaverton Education Foundation.
Download the NSIF Year 1 report