Camelot Learning News
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PARTNERS WITH CAMELOT LEARNING*
Contact:
Rosa Birnbaum
1-800-204-2414
Did you know elementary and middle school children lose knowledge over summer vacation? According to Johns Hopkins University Center for Summer Learning, "all young people experience learning losses when they do not engage in educational activities during the summer."
Camelot Learning is a manipulative rich intervention program focused on Mathematics for Grades 1 - 8, correlated to national educational standards and the National Council for Teachers of Mathematics standards, and designed to engage the attention and enthusiasm of elementary and middle school children. Currently operating at 36 sites in Maryland, as well as Charlotte, North Carolina; Washington DC.; Detroit, Michigan; Reno, Oklahoma; and Ft. Worth Texas, Camelot Learning provides daily activities and games in summer school settings, ensuring children's learning progresses rather than recedes over the summer months.
JHU Center for Summer Learning is committed to expanding summer learning opportunities for disadvantaged children and youth as a strategy for closing the achievement gap. "Summer learning programs like those provided by Camelot Learning send young people back to school ready to learn, support working families, and keep children safe and healthy," said Ron Fairchild, executive director for the Center for Summer Learning at Johns Hopkins University. Camelot Learning is particularly effective in engaging children during the summer because the manipulative rich learning is based on the Multiple Intelligence model, reaching students with non-traditional learning styles, as opposed to textbooks and computers. Camelot Learning's game format motivates students to attend and participate in this mathematics tutorial program.
Using research-based approaches and models of effective practice like Camelot Learning, the Johns Hopkins University Center for Summer Learning strives to ensure that all children have access to high-quality learning opportunities during the summer months.
*Camelot Learning was awarded a Johns Hopkins University Center for Summer Learning Grant from Verizon in the summer of 2006.