Impact on Student Success

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We offer programs and services to help students of all ages succeed in school.

Student Success Programs and Services in 2017

Impact on Student Success
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Summer of Learning 2017: Blast off to Space!
Summer of Learning animal program
41,500+ participants ages 0 - 21
424 schools and partner organizations
Impact on Student Success
"The best thing about this workshop was learning important skills that photographers use: rules of threes and the landscape rule. I also enjoyed writing an artist statement and talking with people of all different backgrounds." - Summer of Learning teen photography class partcipant
Global Reading Challenge 2017
Young patrons participating in the 2017 Global Reading Challenge
69 Seattle Public School District elementary schools participated
21st year of the program
4,000+ 4th and 5th graders participated
The winners: Graham Hill, Loyal Heights and Leschi elementaries
"When they returned as champs, they were embraced by the school community. They are recgonized as students who were motivated to make big accomplishments. They continued to read throughout the year and were very excited tp share about book they had read." - Leschi Elementary Librarian Kevin McNew
Homework Help
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14 Library locations
1,153 homework help session
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Summary of Student Success Programs

Summer of Learning: Blast Off to Space

  • 11,352 kids and teens learned STEAM skills
  • 424 schools and partner organizations
  • 8,000 free eclipse glasses distributed

Global Reading Challenge

  • 69 Seattle Public School District elementary schools participated
  • 22nd year of the program
  • 4,000+ 4th and 5th -graders read 10 books
  • The winners: Graham Hill, Loyal Heights and Leschi elementaries

Homework Help

  • 10 Library locations
  • 1,153 Homework Help sessions

Story times

  • 2,000+ story times in English
  • 600 story times in Mandarin, Spanish, Somali, Arabic and Vietnamese
  • 80 percent of participants reported learning skills to help their children learn to read and write

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