Our ALL-NEW Transitional Readiness And College Knowledge (TRACK) will provide your middle schooler (6th-8th) a comprehensive suite of social-emotional learning, mentoring, humanities, sports & leadership, and S.T.E.M programming to help them make a successful transition to high school and beyond.
Academic Services: (6th-8th grade)
- Individual tutoring and coaching
- Collaborative group coaching
- After school drop-in workspace with tutors
- Academic resource library (virtual and onsite)
- Executive functioning skills workshops
- High School readiness support
- College counseling
- Incentive-driven achievement and recognition. (e.g. transit cards)
- Program graduation ceremony and celebration
Essentials
Tutoring
Tutors tend to focus on building concrete skills and helping students with what they immediately need to keep up with schoolwork.
Academic Coaching
Similar to a sports coach, an academic coach tends to work on strategies to help kids succeed. They can help kids develop a more organized approach to learning and schoolwork. They may also focus on strategies to help kids with motivation.
Approach
Tutoring
Tutors tend to focus on building concrete skills and helping students with what they immediately need to keep up with schoolwork.
Academic Coaching
Academic coaches will assist students in developing executive function skills needed for class and career. We help kids adopt an effcient approach to the learning process: time management, overcoming procrastination, through task initation, self advocation for school and career paths, professional communication, planning, maintaining focus, etc...
Participants
Tutoring
Students struggling with subject matter like Math or English, who need support in learning skills from prior years, having trouble because of class size and the need for more individualized attention, or a disconnect with the teacher's teaching style.
Academic Coaching
Students who procrastinate frequently causing homework to be late, have trouble staying focused, materials are in disarray, having the same issue in multiple classes. Through coaching students can increase confidence, develop a growth mindset, use necessary skills for organization and time management, reduce stress, utilize problem solving skills.
Meet our TRACK Team!
TRACK Program Partners
Guitars Over Guns
- Instrumental music instruction, studio production, sound engineering, and beatmaking
Chicago Lions Rugby
- Sports instruction and introduction to the sport of rugby
Sky Art
- Visual arts from long standing arts non-profit organization
Red Coral Dance Company
- Dance by the premier Afro-contemporary non-profit