Oregon-Davis Schools continue to see success with their Jump Start program. Superintendent Dr. Don Harman says this was the second year for the Jump Start approach to summer school. “Obviously, academics were a focal point,” he says, “but also, a focal point was just talking about life skills and soft skills and getting students acclimated to getting up and brushing their teeth and coming to school.”
Teachers reviewed this year’s Jump Start with the school board Monday. “Kris Hinds told the board that the biggest thing that she’s seen as she’s done this for two years is that they really stressed just getting kids excited about coming to school, just talked about how they could do better than what they did last year,” Harman says.
He adds that the teachers reported almost 100-percent attendance throughout this summer’s Jump Start. “I do know on the last day of Jump Start, the students were able to get in the swimming pool and they had a swimming party, and then also made root beer floats,” Harman says. “So we tried to make it where school’s fun, and wanted to get the kids excited to start the school year.”
Jump Start provided a two-week summer school program to students in grades one through eight. Students entering kindergarten had their own one-week version.
