Page 5 - StoryBoardSept2016

BPS STORYBOARD - September 30, 2016 - VOL V, ISSUE 2 - PAGE 5
United Way Program Slows Summer Slide
As summer comes to an end, United Way and BPS celebrated elementary students who stepped up to read over the summer as part of the summer learning loss awareness campaign. This summer, nearly 3,500 students at 61 elementary schools read as part of a summer reading contest. That’s double the number that participated last summer. Students celebrated their success with ice cream parties sponsored by United Way.
loss will be rewarded with their continued academic success.”
Manatee Elementary had the most student participation with 182
students completing the
reading challenge. “I am
• More than 5,500 students read nearly 57,000 e-books
truly impressed by our students’ determination to improve their reading and continue to learn over the summer,” said Dr. Desmond K. Blackburn. “Their efforts to combat summer learning
Rob Rains, United Way of Brevard president said, “This summer marks the fourth year United Way of Brevard has partnered with Brevard Public Schools to launch an aggressive awareness campaign to
help parents understand the devastating effects of summer learning loss. To combat the ‘summer slide’, United Way promoted three programs to help kids this summer – United Way’s Feed and Read program which provided nutrition, mentoring, and free books to low income children during the summer school break, a summer learning loss awareness campaign, and free access to thousands of digital books on myON for all elementary school children in Brevard.”
United Way delivered this summer:
• Feed and Read provided 16,580 food packs
• Over 20,000 free books
(L-R) Shannon Daly (Manatee AP), Kristin Sorokin (Quest AP), Lori Kessel (Quest media specialist), and Tricia Kuhblank (Manatee media specialist) were made into a human sundae.