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Project/Program <br />Summary <br />ISLA's Activ idades Extra Escolares is a project to help engage <br />students beyond the basics during this school year. So much <br />emphasis has been made in the last few months on getting kids back <br />to learning the basics, despite the pandemic, but we hav e found that <br />our parents and students report that these basics are often <br />ov erwhelming for students and de-motiv ating when there isn't a <br />pairing with enjoyable outlets for students' creativ e energies! By <br />ensuring that 1/3 of our programming is focused specifically on the <br />arts and arts instruction we hope to prov ide a dev elopmentally and <br />culturally appropriate outlet in the students' home language of <br />Spanish to connect back to their joy for learning! W e know that the <br />arts can prov ide a v ital outlet for self-expression and we see our <br />students as needing that now more than ev er! They hav e so many <br />experiences and feelings that are difficult to express, in addition to <br />the boredom that comes to being stuck at home. W e are excited to <br />bring this program to students, with the support of the Orange <br />County Arts Commission, to help giv e students enriching <br />experiences from the safety of their homes. W e hav e piloted <br />numerous lessons and approaches this summer with our social <br />enterprise SEPA's online summer camp classes and we hope that <br />with a little extra financial support we will be able to bring this high <br />quality programming, free of charge, to our ISLA students as well! <br />Project Start Date <br />(no earlier than July <br />1, 2020) <br />October 1, 2020 <br />Project End Date (no <br />later than June 30, <br />2021) <br />May 31, 2021 <br />Project Goals In 2019, ISLA did a surv ey of the families who participate in our <br />heritage language programming and found that for ov er half of our <br />students ISLA's Saturday school was their only extracurricular <br />activ ity. This was not ov erly surprising to us because as educators <br />we know that far too often extracurricular activ ities like music, art and <br />sports are where we see deep opportunity gaps between racial/ethnic <br />minorities students and their non-minority peers. W hen the COVID-19 <br />pandemic began we saw that our ISLA families became ev en more <br />isolated than the general community and we are launching this <br />project to attempt to allev iate the isolation and lack of opportunities <br />for student and family engagement, during this coming school year. <br />Specifically, we would like to see our students enjoying a positiv e <br />outlet for their creativ ity, exploring culturally relev ant themes through <br />artistic mediums and connecting with caring adult role models who <br />can help them cultiv ate social/emotional skills while teaching them <br />artistic fundamentals. <br />DocuSign Envelope ID: CBAB0CFC-0EC0-479E-9AFB-49B5E0339C83