Intersessions
Community Partners: Sodexo
The Navigators’ Center oversees the education programs at Kamaile Academy offered during the winter, spring, and summer break periods. Intersessions are designed to be both academic in nature but also highly engaging for students, in line with best practice recommendations from the National Summer Learning Association and the Wallace Foundation. Teachers are given the freedom to design project-based units that are focused on some topic interesting to students and aimed at some culminating product or performance to share with family members. The Center assists teachers in creating these plans, linking with outside organizations that can augment the project units, and purchasing the supplies necessary for the projects. The Center also organizes a school-wide reading block each morning with small pullout groups for those needing extra assistance as identified by school administration. And near the conclusion of each day, the Center provides fun math challenges for all students that are scaffolded across grade levels. The Center also handles all of the logistics of running the school during these breaks, including organizing free lunches for all students through Sodexo.
Below are links to project plans from our past intersession programs:
