Summer is a make or break season for youth. Research shows that during this critical time students can lose months of knowledge when not engaged in
educational activities.

Since Summer 2010 Big Thought, the Dallas Independent School District and organizations across Dallas have worked together to develop an instructional model that:

• builds a culture of collaboration among teachers,
• improves student achievement, and
• alters the perception of summer school as punitive.
• Since Summer 2010, set out to reinvent summer school to create Thriving Minds Summer Camps.

Together, we have all taken responsibility for students’ summer learning opportunities.