The Young Audiences summer school program for elementary-school students featured a pilot of Raz-Kids. Educators seem to like the reading app. Here's why.
At Young Audiences’ version of summer school, more than 800 Baltimore city elementary school students learned about fractions with music and built their vocabulary through dance. In the arts integration program, which expanded to four sites in 2016, teachers and artists pair up to teach concepts around literacy and math from a different perspective.
“We want it to be different than what they’re doing during the school year,” said Chief Operating Officer Kurtis Donnelly.
The model lends itself to trying new approaches, and Baltimore city added another this year in app form. During the Young Audiences Summer Academy, the students piloted Raz-Kids, a reading app that provides access to books and includes interactive features.
Read more at Technicial.ly Baltimore
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