Academic Success
21st CENTURY COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER
The 21st Century Community Learning Center’s goal is to increase academic achievement, social emotional learning, school attendance, college and career experiences and family engagement. This will be achieved by daily supportive tutoring/homework help, teaching social emotional skills, enrichment activities and empowering families to support values of education at home for students through family events. Additionally, each student will have the opportunity to participate in the Boys & Girls Club’s programs every day after academic support, where they will have the opportunity to engage in enriching activities.
Why Join?
FREE Boys & Girls Club Membership (Access to all Club programs and events)
Snack and dinner provided daily
Help with homework
Access to Club sports and field trips
Spend time with friends
Try new activities and learn new skills
Family Events
Our current 21st CCLC sites are:
Lakewood Branch (serving Lakeview Hope Academy, Tyee Park Elementary, and Four Heroes Elementary)
Cheney Family Branch (serving Evergreen Elementary and Key Peninsula Middle School)
Bremerton Branch (serving Armin Jahr Elementary)
North Mason Teen Center (serving Hawkins Middle School)
**Request for Proposal for Evaluation Services**
Seeking a local evaluator for our 2023-2024 program year. For consideration, please email your resume to woodsk@bgcsps.org. Please click on the link below for more details.
21st CCLC Yearly Evaluation Report
ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
The due date for this year's applications is June 2nd, 2023. Applications can be mailed to 3875 South 66th Street, Suite 101, Tacoma, WA 98409 or emailed directly to woodsk@bgcsps.org.
2023 BGCSPS Educational Scholarship Application - Deadline June 2
2023 Keith & Kathy Hallman Scholarship Fund Application - Deadline June 2
ACADEMIC SUCCESS
The academic success programming is designed to ensure all youth, despite the barriers they face, are excited about and engaged in their studies at school. Specifically, academic success programs encompass five components:
homework help and tutoring,
high-yield and expanded learning activities that help youth use their out-of-school time focused on learning,
parent and adult involvement to help build strong moral support for each child,
collaboration with schools to ensure program activities align with what children learn during the school day, and
recognition of youth success to help achieve higher levels of confidence.
These are the desired outcomes for students in the program:
Improve academic achievement in math & reading
Increase SEL & positive student behavior
Increase Program Engagement
Increase family involvement
Increase access to college & career experiences through community partners
Implement quality programs through the YPQA process
Program highlight:
Summer Boost: Summer Boost counteracts summer learning loss, giving low-income, underserved, rising 4th and 6th graders who are below grade level a pathway to success. Since its inception, Summer Boost has supported more than 1,000 students!
All youth experience learning losses when they do not engage in summer educational activities. This loss is especially devastating for children from low-income families who do not have access to summer enrichment.
Summer Boost will provide low-income, underserved, disenfranchised, rising 4th and 6th graders who are lagging in school achievement with summer classes in reading and other subjects (science, math, language arts, STEM, and coding) as part of Club summer programming. It will serve 250 students from 4 public school districts (Tacoma, Clover Park, Peninsula, and Bremerton) with high populations of low-income, ethnically diverse children. School districts provide certified teachers trained in the current curriculum to lead the program, provide lesson plans, and offer instruction in subjects determined by the school district. Student/teacher ratios average 1:10 to help reinforce learning and support the transition to middle school. Teachers will do pre and post-testing. The Clubs provide additional enrichment programming—all of which is provided to Club members, and their families, at no charge!