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Our work with our students is that much more enhanced and purposeful because of our extraordinary partners. We want to celebrate organizations and institutions that help us to fulfill our mission and goals.
Our flagship site, Breakthrough Miami at Ransom Everglades School has been an integral part of the Ransom community for more than 19 years. Founded by two RE alumni, the program is considered as the primary embodiment of the service mission of RE School. As the model site, this location is also home to our cluster office and primary source of our volunteer student interns. Our students benefit greatly by Ransom tremendous resources and also give back by participating the in the school’s Island Care Project. To Learn more about Ransom, please visit www.ransomeverglades.org.
Our 2008 expansion site, Doctors Charter School, is currently home to three full-time staff and 195 students, as an umbrella site to The Cushman School site. The site will expand this summer to 200 students. It is our first expansion into the Miami Shores community and has been hugely supported and embraced. To learn more about Doctors, please visit www.doctorscharterschool.org. To learn more about The Cushman school, please visit www.cushmanschool.org
The Breakthrough Collaborative has an affiliate organization, Breakthrough Miami is one of 34 sites. The Collaborative provides guidance around programming as well as supports the organization through its growth efforts. We receive tremendous support from the national office, including the CEO serving on our local Board of Directors.
Miami Dade County Public Schools is a long supporter of Breakthrough Miami. In 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2010 M-DCPS housed our summer program at three locations and all associated cost. Moreover, the majority of our students are Dade county public school students. We work closely with Rhoda Shirley and Summer services to ensure our students receive credit for their courses.
Founded in Miami in 1990, Shake-A-Leg Miami (SALM) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing sailing instruction; educational, recreational and vocational training programs to youth and adults with special needs. Breakthroughstudents are provided with sailing lessons that leads to a US Sailing Small Boat (Level 1) certification. This program provides a customized 10-session learn to sail program (each semester) and progresses from introduction to advanced skills. It includes skills in water safety, understanding wind direction, how a boat moves, points of sail and racing. Students will work on teamwork, conflict resolution, and efficacy building while on and off the water.
Arts for Learning is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing teaching and learning through the arts and community cultural resources. As a collaborative partner, Arts for Learning provides a Performance arts component to our Breakthrough Saturday Program and Summer Institute. Classes focus on music basics as well as African drumming. Students enjoy learning basic to intermediate rhythms on a variety of instruments as well as creating their own music. Each class receives as many as 20 hours of arts-integrated instruction per semester (half a school year).
Music Theory and Private Music Lessons (CGCC Community Arts Program) – Students are provided with an intensive core instrumental curriculum of violin, viola, cello, bass, piano and voice. Based on ability level, students take either a 30 minute group lesson or a 30-60 minute one-on-one private instrument lesson. All students are required to take a 45-minute music theory class.
Princeton Review provides SAT preparation courses for 11th graders during late winter/early spring to prepare for taking the SAT. 25 students participate each year.
The National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) teaches entrepreneurship to young people from low-income communities to enhance their economic productivity by improving their business, academic and life skills. Students develop a business plan and learn how to start and run a business.
The Fairchild Challenge. Students participate in the Fairchild Challenge, a multidisciplinary, environmental education outreach program designed to give secondary school students an opportunity to experience nature, experiment with ideas, and express opinions. The Fairchild Challenge invites students to investigate local and global environmental issues, devise imaginative and effective responses to these issues and take action to address them.
Starbot is a nonprofit organization that helps middle and high school students reach their full potential through engineering and robotics. Students work together with scientists and engineers from local businesses and universities to build robots and will compete in a national engineering contest. Furthermore, students are introduced to engineering and technology as well as basic soldering.
The Experiment in International Living offers substantive three- to five-week summer abroad programs that focus on cultural immersion, experiential learning, and making meaningful connections across national, linguistic, and cultural borders. Breakthrough Miami students are encouraged to pursue this opportunity. Each year, at least two students participate.
Hands On Miami’s Youth Volunteer Corps (YVC) is an exciting youth-volunteering program offered only to teenagers ages 13 and older who are residents of Miami-Dade County. Each month, the YVC organizes and manages various direct-service projects with service organizations throughout Miami-Dade County, from Homestead to North Miami. Hands on Miami offers a diverse range of monthly projects, from serving food at the Miami Rescue Mission to working with senior citizens and painting school murals. Our Students participate in service projects through this organization.
Carrollton was founded in 1961 and is part of the world-wide network of Sacred Heart Schools inspired by the vision of St. Madeleine Sophie Barat who founded the first school of the Sacred Heart in 1801. Since that time, Sacred Heart education has been known for excellence. Madeleine Sophie sought to prepare young women to take their rightful places in the world in which they found themselves, armed with strength of character, intellectual curiosity, and a "lively faith." Our 2010 expansion site, Carrollton is currently home to one full-time staff and one part-time staff, and 67 students. The site will expand this summer to 80 students. It is our second expansion into the Coconut Grove community and has been hugely supported and embraced.
Junior Achievement Worldwide is the world’s largest organization dedicated to educating students about workforce readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy through experiential, hands-on programs.
Junior Achievement programs help prepare young people for the real world by showing them how to generate wealth and effectively manage it, how to create jobs which make their communities more robust, and how to apply entrepreneurial thinking to the workplace. Students put these lessons into action and learn the value of contributing to their communities. Our students are immersed in this entrepreneurship curriculum during our school year program.
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