SUMMER SCHOOL JUNE 27 – JULY 22, 2022
Create a love of learning at Marburn’s Summer School! arburn Academy’s Summer School is an immersive, four-week academic skill-based program. Throughout their experience at Marburn, students discover academic strengths, build confidence, and minimize learning loss over the summer months while preparing for the next school year. Instruction is delivered in small groups or 1:1 settings using evidencebased instructional approaches that reinforce and promote retention of information. With a supportive environment and teachers who understand learning needs, students in Marburn’s Summer School program thrive.
The program is specifically designed for students who learn differently due to a specific learning disability in reading, writing, and/or math or executive functioning difficulties. While the best fit for Marburn’s Summer School program are students who have a diagnosis such as ADHD, dyslexia, dyscalculia, or dysgraphia, it is not a requirement.
Summer School Admission Enrollment Process
Application Timeline
Before enrolling, all students are required to go through our application process.
January 24, 2022: Registration open to current Marburn families
1. Schedule an introductory call on our website at marburnacademy.org/enrollment-process/ or contact our admission team at 614-4330822 or summerschool@marburnacademy. org.
February 2, 2022: Registration open to all applicants
2. During the phone conversation, the admission team will gather information about your child’s learning needs and request available documents (evaluations, IEPs, IQ scores, etc.).
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis. However, we encourage families to complete the application early, as our program fills up quickly.
3. Once all necessary information is received, the team determines whether our specialized summer program will meet your student’s educational needs. 4. Applicant family is contacted with decision and next steps. Financial Aid Limited financial aid is available. Please contact our admission team for more information. Marburn reserves the right to cancel a course if the minimum number of students is not met.
Foundations of Reading Open to students entering Kindergarten and 1st grade This program is specifically designed for young learners to build a strong foundation for reading. The curriculum is based around one of the most critical foundational skills for reading–phonemic awareness. Step into the classroom and you will see play, movement, and multisensory activities
as students learn and practice. Rhyming, syllable division, and letter identification are some of the skills taught during this four-week program. Students receive individual attention in a small groups and instruction is delivered by Marburntrained teachers.
Dates: June 27–July 22 (No school July 4th.)
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Days: Monday–Friday
She certainly thrived in the small classroom setting with a lot of confidence building activities.
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Time:
9:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m.
Fee: $800
Lower Division Open to students entering 2nd through 6th grades The Lower Division Program occurs in small-group settings and allows for focused attention, interaction, and support within the academic environment. Instruction by Marburn-trained teachers is focused on academic areas of reading, writing, and mathematics. Each day, students receive: •
1:1 Orton-Gillingham tutoring to teach, reinforce, and practice essential reading and spelling skills.
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Mathematics class provides reinforcement of critical components and concepts, conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, and application at grade-level with needed scaffolds and support.
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Language Lab teaches and reinforces reading comprehension and written expression skills. Learn to organize ideas, pull-out critical elements of a text, and express ideas to others in writing. Dates: June 27–July 22 (No school July 4th.) Days: Monday–Friday Time:
8:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m.
Fee: $2,000
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After years of struggle and an overwhelming spirit of hopelessness, everything about Marburn radiated potential and palpable hope and a way forward for our bright and resilient boy.
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Middle Division Open to students entering 7th through 9th grade The Middle Division program is specifically designed for adolescent learners to explore, reinforce, practice, and prepare for the next grade level. Instruction by Marburn-trained teachers occurs in small groups and individual attention and support are provided. Each day, students receive: •
Language Lab teaches and reinforces reading comprehension and written expression skills. Students learn how to organize their ideas in writing, learn tools to pull out critical elements of a text and build on reading comprehension.
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Mathematics class provides reinforcement of critical components and concepts, conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, and application at grade-level with needed scaffolds and support.
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CS First® provides the opportunity for students to practice computational concepts, problem solving, and executive functioning skills in an interactive coding course. Dates: June 27–July 22
(No school July 4th.)
Days: Monday–Friday Time:
8:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m.
Fee: $2,000