RSD Charter School, Inc.

To address the needs of our vulnerable student populations - all ethnic groups, children from low-income families, children with disabilities, English language learners, migrant students, students experiencing homelessness, and children in foster care our school will:

Academic: Provide a summer learning program by utilizing standards-based assessments from Galileo to gauge student understanding and provide the necessary instruction to help students reach the level of mastery needed to advance toward graduation. Instruction will be provided to students using Lexia for reading and Khan Academy for math, and utilizing Galileo assessment data, state test data, and teacher referral to guide identification of learning gaps to begin to close the learning gap caused by the pandemic.

SEL: All RSD students in grades 9-12 are provided with a weekly session called i-Time that is part of the school's Building Assets, Reducing Risks (BARR) program (ESSA rated program, which is included on the CASEL Program list as evidence based). Their teachers, the school counselor, and the student engagement coordinator provide group sessions on topics related to resiliency, leadership, emotional strength, effective decision making, and other topics faced by teens during these unprecedented times. These sessions drive the SEL program for our whole school which is called Building Assets, Reducing Risks (BARR). Through the BARR program we are able to focus on the needs of the whole child and conduct risk reviews on our students most in need. The faculty/staff participate in this program holistically to surround each student with a team of adults that is focused on their individualized success.

Summer school will run for 5 hours Monday-Thursday during the months of June and July, during the summer of 2022. Students will be encouraged to attend based on Galileo assessment data (academic), teacher/parent referral, counselor referral, or at-risk status as identified through weekly BARR- Building Assets, Reducing Risks, risk review meetings for SEL.