Think Through Academy

TTA will identify students in need of academic and social-emotional-mental health improvement. Interventions will be provided in small groups and in one on one. in addition to maximize learning time such as offering afterschool and summer school programs. TTA will also partnership with community organizations that are helping families in the area.

The following are the set-aside TTA will be using:

1. Summer school: To ensure content mastery and graduation, the school will provide students with instruction that meets the strengths and needs of each student and address the unique needs of students (Summer 2022/ and Summer 2023).
ESSA Evidence Based: See: EFFECTIVE Practices- Research Briefs and Evidence Ratings (pages: 23; 148; 153; 164

2. Summer Extended learning time: Provide extra time to students to help students recovers credit and graduate in timely manner.
ESSA Evidence Based:
a. https://www.pnas.org/content/113/27/7481
b. Frazier & Morrison, 2011. Getting Beneath the Veil of Effective Schools: Evidence from New
York City. Retrieved from: http://www.nber.org/papers/w17632 )

3. After school Enrichment: To address the physical, mental, and social and emotional needs of students and staff, TTA will provide students with supervised opportunities of an open Gym during the school year 2022
ESSA Evidence Based:
a. https://consciousdiscipline.com/using-esser-funds-for-sel/
b. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED591351
c. https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/product/encouraging-social-emotional...

4. Recover the learning loss: TTA will hire an additional teacher to support students during the school year to provide one on one or in small group setting instruction (2 to 3 students)
ESSA Evidence Based: See: EFFECTIVE Practices- Research Briefs and Evidence Ratings (pages: 141)

5. Recover the learning loss: TTA will allocate one teacher for one period as a co-teacher in Geometry class. This will reduce teacher: students 'ratio to 1:7 and will provide students with more one-on-one support.
a. ESSA Evidence Based: See: EFFECTIVE Practices- Research Briefs and Evidence Ratings (pages: 141)
b. https://www.brookings.edu/research/class-size-what-research-says-and-wha...