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Presented by Dr. Rejoice Chavira, Arline Troncoza and Brooke Clement

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Why Summer Bridge?

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History

Pilot Program started in Summer 2018
Partnership between the Adult Education Programs at Redlands and Yucaipa Adult Schools and Crafton Hills Community College.

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Purpose

The Summer Bridge Program is a five week summer program that will prepare the Adult Education students to transfer to college and prepare them for the Fall semester.
Participants will receive the knowledge and skills to build a bridge to a successful college experience.
The Extended Opportunity Program & Services covered the cost of all the field trips, lunches and academic supplies.

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Pre-Covid Summer Bridge

Starts with Crafton Hills College tour
Counseling 100 - Student Success and the College Experience.
Lunch break with lunch provided.
Afternoon Workshops
University/Cultural field trips once per week

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Recruitment

Pre- Covid	During COVID
New Student Orientation Group graduation meetings Individual post-grad planning meetings College & Career Fair Summer Bridge Info Sessions	Coffee with the Counselors Promo videos on Social Media Summer Bridge Interest Form (Google Form)

Brooke

Pre Covid, and post covid recruitment

For us, recruitment for summer bridge began at orientation. We mention it and start an interest list for the students to sign up.

For us this is a crucial time to catch students. An example would be I had met with a student who only needed a few credits to graduate, and when she did, we asked her “okay, whats next” and she said she wants to go to college and it has always been a dream of hers but she never thought she would actually be able to. But by us encouraging our students to go beyond HSD, she felt like she can achieve it.

We have group graduation meetings that we would host with our graduates and potential graduates to give information about graduation ceremony and also let them know that they have options when taking that next step, so we heavily recruit from these meetings and get them started on the process right then and there.

Every student meets with a counselor once they’ve completed all their credits. At this meeting we discuss their plans after graduation and help them fill out applications for college and financial aid. At this meeting we will also promote the summer bridge program- even if they plan to go to a different community college, we encourage them to attend!

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Impact of COVID

We had an interest list that was growing prior to COVID.
Initially planned a morning & evening section.
How are our adult education students going to be able to complete an online class when their digital literacy skills aren’t there yet?
Re-evaluating our interest list and making phone calls

Are you okay with taking classes online?
Do you have access to technology?
Morning or evening?

15 students needed for the program to continue
Field trips

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Pre-Summer Bridge Training

Students needed to be trained with all of the technology first to ensure their success in the program

Previous Cohort invited
Attending a Zoom Meeting
Logging into Webadvisor
Logging into your student email
Logging into CANVAS
Discussion posts, quizzes, PDF’s, etc
Learning about google drive
Turned into a support group once Coun 100 started
Tutorial videos were also included in counseling 100 CANVAS course in case students forgot these skills.

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Coun 100 Content & Order

Week 1	Week 2	Week 3
Welcome Video Orientation Growth Mindset Goal Setting Intro to College	Campus Resources Time Management Learning Styles	Note-Taking Styles Study Skills Intro to College Writing

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Coun 100 Content & Order

Week 4	Week 5
Who Am I? (Eureka) Where am I going? (Eureka) Majors & Educational Planning	How do I get there? (Eureka) Mental Health & Stress Management Financial Planning Final Paper Due

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Final Product

At the end of the Counseling 100 course students would have completed their first 5 paragraph essay addressing each phase of their career exploration process throughout the course.

Introduction Paragraph
Body Paragraph 1 | Who am I?
Body Paragraph 2 | Where am I going?
Body Paragraph 3 | How do I get there?
Conclusion Paragraph

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Importance of Videos

Since we did not have live Zoom instruction

We knew students were going to miss in person instruction and this added a personal touch.
Able to see and hear their instructors.
Reading through materials is also good, but we wanted to have a combination to address all learners.
Included materials presented in videos for those who would rather read through.

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Class Zoom Meetings

Every Monday at 9AM and 6PM

Not Mandatory, but turn out was great!
Check-ins

Student Introductions
One word to describe how you are feeling
What was something you learned?

Reviewed assignments for the upcoming week
Q&A

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Field Trips

Pre-COVID	During COVID
In-person tour of the campus Lunch provided Bus/Vans to transport students Presentations	Virtual via zoom Information from the admissions department Research assignment Morning and evening session

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Summer Bridge Celebration

How to celebrate their accomplishment Virtually?

What we did before
Previous student speaker
Student voices
Administration present

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Student Voices

“The summer bridge program has helped me transition from Redlands adult school to college. I found many programs , services and resources at crafton and San Bernardino valley college . The professors gave me the motivation and confidence I needed to keep going forward. I got a chance to virtually tour and learn about many things Universities have to offer. I found guidance in looking for my college major and learned about different careers choices . It was a fun and exciting learning experience.”

“Summer Bridge program has helped me feel confident enough to plan ahead and gave me the assurance of being able to change course if things do not work out. Before the program, I had very little self esteem and now I feel confident and comfortable to take on my future education.”

“The program has helped me get my strength and confidence back,end to get in better learning new skills, summer bridge program have been a very important part of moving forward with my life.”

“The Summer Bridge Program has helped me to grow and it has helped me to believe things I never thought possible. The Summer Bridge Program is a really great program and I feel like it has been the best decision I have made so far.”

“...I am a recent high school graduate. I just enrolled into my first semester of college to get my degree in Business Administration.”

“I first would like to thank you the staff without you it would have been almost impossible to have accomplished the process of this great program. I've learned more about myself and the ability that I have when I put all my focus on something that I want to accomplish. I have also learned that asking for help is a good thing not a sign of weakness. I feel truly blessed. Thank you.”

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Delivery

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Questions?

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Dr. Rejoice Chavira

Director EOP&S/CARE/CalWORKS

909-389-3456

rchavira@craftonhills.edu

Brooke Clement

RAS Counselor | Crafton Adjunct Counselor

909-307-4365

brooke_clement@redlands.k12.ca.us

Arline Troncoza

RAS Counselor | EOP&S Adjunct Counselor

909-492-0538

arline_troncoza@redlands.k12.ca.us