Breakthrough Summerbridge, SFUHS

Breakthrough Summerbridge is a full-time summer academic enrichment session and a school-year academic program. Students attend the six-week summer session over three consecutive summers and spend two years with Summerbridge during the school year. During the summer, students take classes in math, humanities, and science, grade level co-curricular classes, and numerous non-academic electives (including the arts and athletics). The school-year academic program features academic enrichment courses, high school counseling, and Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) workshops for parents. Breakthrough Summerbridge embraces a "students teaching students" philosophy. Most classes during the summer are taught by a staff of teaching fellows, enthusiastic high school and college students from Bay Area high schools and colleges, as well as from universities and colleges located throughout the country. These older students lead almost every aspect of the program and plan nearly all of the activities, events, and field trips. Professional teachers with extensive experience in education serve as mentors for the student teachers. The commitment to "students teaching students" remains the same as it ensures that Summerbridge remains an energetic, exciting, and creative environment for students and teachers alike.