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​Summer Language Enrichment

Program
SOAR program help the ESL students improve outstanding in short
period of time.
By Quan Pham-Troy, Hebron High School student, 

Friday, 26 April 2019 10:48 ​CDT,​ USA 

  

Special thanks to Miss Trisha Kauzlarich, Mrs. Ginny Evans, and students
The  SOAR  poster  in  2019.  Deryck  Vo  shared  “  I  heard  about  the  SOAR  program,and  I  think  I’ll help a lot for the students 

come  from  other  part  of  the  world  to  catching  up  in  classes  by  using  their  knowledge  that  they  have  learn  in  the 

program” 

S​upporting Overall Academic Readiness is now one of the most popular program

for ESL students at Hebron High School. Students began to signing up in room

1460 to participate in this summer June 2019.

Trisha Kauzlarich is part of the developing team for SOAR and liaison in Hebron

High School.

“SOAR is an enrichment program for ESL students,” Kauzlarich said. “Students

working on reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills in a low risk environment

where they can take chances,so they can have a feeling of accomplishment, and

so they can be better prepare when they come back to school.”

Overall look, the program help student empathetic to each other, and especially it

made them feel comfortable to express them self easily.

“The way that its set up that its environment where all ESL kids from all different high

school in the area come together,” Kauzlarich said. ”So you’re able to connects with

people that are of your culture but also connect with other ESL students that have more

experiment, so it's like everybody helps everybody, the higher level student help the lower

, and the lower students still benefit and work with each other.”

Special thanks to Miss Trisha Kauzlarich, Mrs. Ginny Evans, and students
Ginny Evans help her students during third period class. Tina Nguyen is a student participating to the program. “I think that SOAR is

a great program for ESL student to attend during the summer since they provide opportunity to improve English and make more

friends,” Nguyen said.

The program is 100 percents free with breakfast, lunch, and transportation.

“Students need to know that it is the voluntary program,” Kauzlarich said. “And there are a

lot that going to planning it. Everybody, all teachers are there because they wanted to be

Special thanks to Miss Trisha Kauzlarich, Mrs. Ginny Evans, and students
working with ESL students, and I think the students need to know they’re gonna growth

base on how much effort they but in.”

During this period, students don’t have to worry about their grade because there are no

grade which gives students time to having fun, enjoying without any stresses that make

them bored and headache like school semesters.

“If you were told that you can come and learn but you won’t get grades,” Kauzlarich said.

“Imagine how much more willing you are to take chances, how much more willing you are

to do more project or tried if you knew that it wasn’t a grade attach to it.”

“You doing something fun, and you also doing something that you do in school all the

time,” Kauzlarich said. ”There are always doing project, you always having to read, you

having to do presentation, and I think a lot of time ESL students in a normal classroom

environment don’t get a lot of those opportunities because it's very scary and intimidating

for them, and this allowing them to practicing.”

Special thanks to Miss Trisha Kauzlarich, Mrs. Ginny Evans, and students
ESL students work on the story “Heroes” by Robert Cormier in third period. An Vu is an ESl student in the program said “SOAR is 

very fun and it is very good for us to do in summer instead of staying home and doing nothing useful.” 

According to Kauzlarich, this environment is very laid back and positive. It gives ESL

students a voice to speak for themself to show people what they are have a hard time with

especially the language.

“We did a study before where we tracking their reading levels, and you could see progress

even with that three weeks period,” Kauzlarich said. “A lot of students said they felt more

confident, they did learn more english, they learn some better studies skill and sometime

you can’t measure that by a grade but you do see that they are do get better.”

Ginny Evans, teacher at Hebron, has been to the showcases of the program, where the

students can introduce their project, witnessed how student growth, learning, gaining more

Special thanks to Miss Trisha Kauzlarich, Mrs. Ginny Evans, and students
 knowledge and skills including taking note skill, social skill. Furthermore, she very positive

about the program because of the quality of teaching from teachers.

“I like the sense communities that they build for our students,” Evans said, “I like the

structure of the program, it's not all busy busy, kids have time to interact with one and

another. And the quality of teaching, the teachers that have volunteer their time to this

and working on their specific skill. It's quite amazing and our kids have always set really

positive things.”

Evans  in  her  room  during  the  interview.  She  shared  how  proud  she  is  through  her  own  view  angle  of  the  students  .“The  kids are 

really  enjoy,  and  there  are  so  many  proud  moment  that  they  sharing.  It  always  get  tears  in  your  eyes  because  you  see  them  at 

another level,” Evans said. 

Special thanks to Miss Trisha Kauzlarich, Mrs. Ginny Evans, and students
Mrs. Evans in her room at third period. “From an outsider's perspective, this seems like a pure opportunity for those who truly 

want to develop their english,” Duy-Khiem Tran said,”I personally had some struggles with learning the language, as I used to be 

only proficient in one. If I had this before, I probably would’ve been able to better myself in the language. Regarding the 

program, I believe this is a chance to take.”

Special thanks to Miss Trisha Kauzlarich, Mrs. Ginny Evans, and students