Category: Learning Academies
Learning Academies
Learning Academy 2025: Capes for the Ninth Summer
Steele/Burnand Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center
Thirty-seven students, 99% attendance, and capes at the closing ceremony — the ninth summer of BASIC's Learning Academy.
Learning Academies
Learning Academy 2024: The Largest Class Yet
Steele/Burnand Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center
Forty-five students — the biggest Learning Academy cohort so far — across the eighth summer of reading, math, ELD, and writing.
Learning Academies
Learning Academy 2023: Every Student on the Post-Survey
Steele/Burnand Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center
Forty-one students; every one who took the post-survey reported hitting the program's academic goal.
Learning Academies
Learning Academy 2022: Shine Bright
Steele/Burnand Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center
A 33% jump in enrollment and a class motto that stuck — forty-three students, four small classes, one summer.
Learning Academies
Learning Academy 2021: Coming Back
Steele/Burnand Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center
After sixteen months with almost no in-classroom learning, forty-four students came back to a full-day summer program — masked, and still building bridges.
Learning Academies
Learning Academy 2019: A Fourth Class
Steele/Burnand Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center
Thirty-three students across reading, ELD, and math — the summer the program became the Learning Academy.
Learning Academies
Learning Academy 2018: Building Bridges
Steele/Burnand Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center
Marshmallow towers, toothpick bridges, and thirty-one students who all completed the third summer of Reading Academy.
Learning Academies
Learning Academy 2017: The Second Summer
Steele/Burnand Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center
Thirty-one students enrolled and thirty-one finished — the second summer of what was still called Reading Academy in Borrego Springs.