The Summer Significance Academy is a grant funded, seven week program that provides Pitt County rising 6th grade students the skills necessary to be successful and productive in the transition from elementary to middle school. The Summer Significance Academy has been created and implemented by a group of non-profit local agencies including the Boys and Girls Club, STRIVE, Building Hope Community Life Center, The CHOSEN Project / Intergenerational Community Center, Greenville Police Department, United Way of Pitt County and Pitt County Schools.
The participants for the academy are hand selected and nominated by their 5th grade teachers. The teachers select the students based upon researched criteria that have shown to indicate when a student might be more susceptible to middle school frustration, both academically and socially, which can potentially influence the students to drop out of school all together. Upon completion of the SSA the participant is then held accountable for their progress by the coordinator. The coordinator keeps track of the academic and social outcomes for each participant on a week by week basis throughout the fiscal school year.
There is room for 150 participants for the SSA 2008. The students are geographically placed at the host site nearest to their home.
Other significant contacts
Pitt County Schools * Boys and Girls Club * Building Hope CLC * Greenville Police Dept. * Life-STRIVE of NC * The CHOSEN Project and * The United Way *