The California Teaching Fellows Foundation, a nonprofit enactment committed to processing the adjacent procreation of educators and leaders, is partnering with Fresno State to big its 4th yearly Teaching Fellows Summer University — a bid of immersive summertime residential programs designed to supply transformative assemblage experiences for students passim California.
This summer, 5 residential programs are being hosted done August 2. They include:
- Two precocious schoolhouse programs, moving from June 15-June 28 and July 20-August 2.
- Two mediate schoolhouse programs, moving from June 23-June28 and July 13-July 18.
- Parents programme from June 27-June 28.
Participants correspond a wide scope of communities crossed California. These programs purpose to animate world excellence, idiosyncratic maturation and assemblage readiness done hands-on learning, mentorship and enrichment activities successful a assemblage setting. For the parents who enactment successful the two-day program, they larn astir navigating the acquisition system, accessing enactment services and fostering a college-going civilization astatine home.
“Our summertime residential programs are designed to springiness students an authentic assemblage acquisition that goes acold beyond academics,” said Pedro Lopez, programme manager of California Teaching Fellows Foundation. “By surviving successful dorms, engaging successful hands-on classes and gathering relationships with trained mentors, students not lone research aboriginal vocation pathways but besides make a beardown consciousness of confidence, transportation and belonging wrong a assemblage environment. We privation each pupil to permission feeling inspired and equipped to prosecute higher education.”
Students successful each programme unrecorded successful Fresno State dorms, be regular classes and enactment successful workshops and enrichment activities led by existent Teaching Fellows — assemblage students moving successful expanded learning programs during the world year. Teaching Fellows staff, who presently clasp enactment positions specified arsenic tract leads and adjunct tract leads successful expanded learning programs, service arsenic nonmigratory advisers.
“Teaching Fellows Summer University is genuinely a once-in-a-lifetime acquisition not conscionable for america arsenic staff, but for the students arsenic well. I person heavy admiration for each pupil who travels to Fresno with the courageousness and curiosity to research assemblage life, physique meaningful connections with peers, instructors, and [residential advisers], and measurement into a caller section of growth,” said Lexi Streets, residential advisor for Teaching Fellows Summer University. “TFSU cultivates a genuine consciousness of belonging and excitement that stays with everyone involved.”
The programme tracks include:
- Health & Fitness Track: Soccer, yoga, boxing, zumba, and spot training.
- English Language Arts Track: Creative penning designed to fortify literacy skills and physique pupil dependable done look and captious thinking.
- Higher Education Track: College exploration, majors and and vocation exploration.
- STEM Track: Computers, drones and aviation, graphic design, and RC engineering.
- Cultural Awareness Track: Folklórico, Latin dance, Making la Banda, DJing, and hip-hop dance.
- University Life Activities: From movie nights to activities connected field and a tract travel to Six Flags, students bask a vibrant field acquisition that fosters connection, confidence, and unforgettable memories beyond the classroom.
In summation to the on-campus experience, students volition beryllium invited to enactment successful 2 follow-up assemblage tract trips during the 2025–2026 world year, continuing their vulnerability to California State University campuses and higher acquisition pathways.
For much accusation astir Teaching Fellows Summer University oregon ways to enactment its mission, interaction Natalie Dodson astatine natalie.dodson@ctff.us
