The video features multiple speakers—staff, partners, a former teacher, and a child’s perspective—who describe Freedom School Partners’ six‑week summer program in Charlotte. They highlight the program’s creative, camp‑like approach that blends reading, poetry, rap, music, dance, and field trips to build literacy and a love of learning while combating summer learning loss. The partnership with Bank of America is presented as a joint effort to support elementary and middle‑school students who need extra academic support. Testimonials stress that scholars are treated as leaders, encouraged to express themselves, and experience a positive, engaging environment that feels less like traditional school and more like an empowering community. The overall tone is enthusiastic and promotional, emphasizing the program’s impact on students’ confidence, skills, and future success.
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Freedom School is... Creative! Engaging!
Freedom School is special because we like to say there's no school like Freedom School, and that's very true. It is our job and our privilege to engage children in 6 weeks of summer learning each summer. summer, where they have the chance to read, to play, to write poetry, to rap, to sing, to dance, to really build not only their reading skills and their literacy skills, but more importantly, a passion for learning.
Freedom School Partners is a great organization that focuses on the children in Charlotte. It allows them to be themselves all summer long, to express themselves and to be exactly who they are.
So Bank of America and Freedom School Partners, both organizations are focused on education and they're focused on development and success of kids, elementary, middle school kids who need the most support right now to be successful in the future.
Freedom School is really working to help fill that summer learning loss. that our students are facing. I've been a classroom teacher, or was, for the last 10 years, and I can see the difference in scholars or children overall who read during the summer, who have experiences, who have field trips. And so it's kind of bridging that gap of me sitting at home and doing nothing all summer or interacting with other people.
Harvey's big brother Al came into the workshop and sat on the edge of the workbench. What are you building now? asked Al. Freedom School is the best!
Dynamic! Exciting! Marvelous!
Excellent!
Amazing!
The Freedom School model works so well because we give scholars the opportunity to have experiences in the summer that feel like camp, and we sneak in the learning.
Well, it's not really too much like school. We really want scholars to remember that they are leaders. Despite their age, they may be told otherwise, but they really are leaders.
You can actually be part of something positive and be part of these kids' lives during the summer. I can't think of a better way.
Freedom School is... Friendly. Funny. Helpful. Incredible. Teaching! Freedom School is fabulous!
