Elementary programswe envision a world where every girl feels valued, safe, and prepared to achieve her dreams. We focus on the whole girl from age 5-18: her health, education and development as a leader. Our continuum of academic, social, and community enrichment programs is offered at no cost, to remove barriers to participation. For the entire school year, all of our school districts across the county continued remote learning due to the global pandemic and all of our direct service programming also used remote learning. Continued on schedule owe offered programming through zoom meetings, google hangouts and at times over the phone providing wellness checks. We adjusted our program delivery hours, times and frequency in order to accommodate the change in the traditional school day schedule. Depending on the sites, we provided programming during the school day and afterschool hours. The focus of our programs remained the same. Elementary programs include:-girlstart literacy program (grades k-3): providing girls and boys - in gender-responsive settings - with a strong literacy foundation for their school years and beyond. We have evidence demonstrating the positive impact of our programs. Participants are referred due to below-grade-level literacy, and increase their spelling, writing, speaking, and reading levels, thus closing the achievement gap to future academic success.-Team (together empowered and academically motivated) for 4th-5th graders, who participate in activities including book clubs with academic discussion and intentional extension activities, independent reading and exploration of complex text using non-fiction articles. Each academic hour component complements school day learning in a fun, enriching way to meet the needs of youth in an afterschool environment. Team includes hands-on enrichment and/or community building activities chosen to meet the unique needs, interests and group dynamic of each individual class. -Steam (science, technology, engineering, art and math) provide high-quality, hands-on learning to build youth confidence in applying design skills, improve academic success and boost interest in studying steam topics.-Concordia park summer program also ran remote programming this year for participants and families.

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