A San Francisco man is retiring from leading an innovative summer enrichment program he helped create 36 years ago.
From science to service, from dancing to designing, thousands of middle school students discover new things and stretch their skills each year at Aim High. Retired San Francisco teacher Alec Lee co-founded the program in 1986 to close the achievement gap among low-income students.
According to the nonprofit’s surveys, the model works: 98 percent of its graduates went on to college, almost twice the national average for low-income students.“So it’s project-based learning. It’s culturally relevant curriculum. It’s teamwork. It’s fun. It’s inspiration. It’s teachers who were fantastic role models,” Lee said of the model for the program.
“It made me more confident in my academic abilities. The teachers really cared about the work we did during the summer,” Santos said.
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