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Albert Lea schools detail summer credit recovery, Tiger Tales and community education enrollments and programs
Summary
Area Learning Center staff and Community Education presented summer offerings, including credit recovery (June 9—June 26), the Tiger Tales targeted-services program (June 9—July 3), and community-education enrollment and facility scheduling trends; presenters gave enrollment figures and described transportation, meals and staffing plans.
Johanna Thomas, speaking for the district's alternative-programs team, and John (Community Education director) presented the district's summer programs and community-education work, describing dates, services, enrollment and logistical supports.
Thomas said credit recovery at Albert Lea High School will run June 9—June 26, will provide breakfast and lunch and transportation for students in bus zones, and uses continual learning plans that require parent signatures. She said there is no state-imposed maximum for credits a student may earn in the summer and that the district's credit-recovery team will include teachers for English, math, social studies, science and special education. Thomas said last summer 193 students enrolled in credit recovery and the program recorded 170 credits earned.
Thomas also described the district's targeted-services summer program, Tiger Tales. She said Tiger Tales will meet June 9 through July 3 at Hawthorne Elementary (grades 1—8; seventh and eighth graders at the high school), will provide breakfast and lunch and transportation in bus zones, and includes goals for reading, math and social-emotional learning through a continual learning plan. She said Tiger Tales had 247 students enrolled at the time of the presentation and she expected the final count to be roughly 300 when late enrollments are processed.
John gave a broad overview of Community Education, reporting increased participation in programming and higher facility rental revenues. He said the department completed a community needs assessment and showed programming that ranges from driver education (including an online classroom option) to experiential education, rocketry, camps, adult fitness and family events. John said facility scheduling requests totaled thousands for the year and that facility rental revenues in the 2023—24 school year (not including Head Start) were $11,240, with current-year revenues on pace to be higher.
Both presenters said breakfast/lunch and transportation would be provided for summer programs when students qualify; special-education staff support would be included at Tiger Tales for students who qualify for extended-school-year services. Thomas said the district will staff Tiger Tales with a special-education teacher and paraeducator support as needed.
Board members asked operational questions about registration timing, capacity and facility scheduling. Presenters asked board members to direct families to Community Education and the Area Learning Center for registration and said more detailed enrollment/financial reporting would be available in packets and at finance or committee meetings.
