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Featured Student: Angel
Featured Teacher: Nerissa
Nerissa has deeply personal reasons for wanting her students to succeed. She attended Breakthrough Miami as a middle school student and later spent three summers, during high school and college, teaching there. “I really wanted to give back to the community that helped me when I was a kid,” she says.
Latest News
| Visit Breakthrough this Summer! |
Join us for a visitors' event this summer and see Breakthrough in full swing. This summer, 100 motivated 5-7th graders from across the city, and 24 aspiring teachers from top-notch colleges nationwide, will be on site at SF Day School, working hard and making huge strides. We hope you'll come see what they're up to. All sessions include breakfast or lunch, a brief presentation, classroom visits, and the chance to get to know our hard-working students and teachers.
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| Breakthrough Launches 7th Grade Expansion |
Breakthrough is proud to announce the next stage in our development. After three years of planning, we’re launching a seventh grade program this summer, to be followed by eighth grade in 2013 and then a high school support program the year after. Ultimately, we will make an eight year investment in students, from the end of grade four to the end of grade twelve. Our goal in expanding: to ensure at least 90% of our students ultimately attend four-year colleges. To ensure sustainability, we’re expanding one year at a time, with funds for each phase raised in advance. We’d like to thank our many generous individual and foundation supporters for making this expansion possible.
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| Kevin Johnson Addresses Breakthrough Supporters |
300 guests filled the SF Day School gym on February 8 for a celebration of Breakthrough. Keynote speaker Kevin Johnson, mayor of Sacramento and former NBA All-Star, shared his experiences working for education reform, emphasizing the importance of working with all possible allies and keeping expectations high. The Cage-Free Trio, featuring SFDS alum Andrew Epstein, serenaded guests at the opening reception. Special thanks to all who supported the dinner, which raised some $100,000 for Breakthrough, including our hard-working planning committee: Barbara Abbott, Megan Howard, Nicole Krassner, and Jane Mortimer. |
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