WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- Winston-Salem Forsyth County Schools has a new program to help bridge the learning gap between kindergarten and first grade.

  • "Pathway to one" focuses on reading, STEM projects and other activities to combat summer learning loss.
  • It’s being funded through Project Impact, an initiative that puts additional operating funds into kindergarten through third grade.
  • Each student in the program has to be recommended by their kindergarten teacher.

"Pathway to one" focuses on reading, STEM projects and other activities to combat summer learning loss in students who need extra guidance.

The program’s start-cost was $300,000. It’s being funded through Project Impact, an initiative that puts additional operating funds into kindergarten through third grade.

"We're catching those students who are maybe at risk of falling behind or who need that extra boost to make sure that they're starting first grade on the right foot, that they're prepared to become learners, readers and successful in first grade,” said Victoria Fulton, Project Impact’s program manager.

"It's gonna give the kids that extra boost that they need so they're able to maintain their skills that they had at the end of kindergarten," said Sheena Green, a teacher for the Pathway to One program. "For a lot of the kids, even push them up a little bit further from where they left kindergarten so that they can enter first grade as confident learners."

Each student in the program has to be recommended by their kindergarten teacher.

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