Donate to Family Resource DayDaly City Partnership is the co-lead with Jefferson Elementary School District for The Big Lift in Daly City. DCP staff, JESD teachers, and San Mateo County Library staff implemented the Inspiring Summers program for 283 incoming Kindergartners and 1st graders and their families at Thomas Edison and John F. Kennedy Elementary Schools.
The program was a free, five-week, full day program providing free breakfast and lunch to all scholars and their families. The morning focused on literacy using an evidence-based program from BELL (Building Educated Leaders for Life). In the afternoon, the scholars were engaged in hands-on science and art projects, yoga and mindfulness activities, and many enrichment activities such as field trips to the San Francisco Zoo and CuriOdyssey, and a petting zoo.
This curriculum was developed by the San Mateo County Library and the Center for Childhood Creativity/Bay Area Discovery Museum. The Big Lift Inspiring Summers program will be offered next summer for incoming Kindergartners, 1st and 2nd graders and the following summer will include rising 3rd graders as well.