What is the ECUC 21st Century CLC ELP?
The EastBay Collaborative of Underserved Children (ECUC) is an Expanded Learning Program (ELP) based within the East-Bay area. We are granted and supported by the 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) program.
As an Expanded Learning Program, we help K-8 students meet state and local student standard in core academic subjects, such as reading and math. We also offer students a broad array of enrichment activities that can complement their regular academic career.
We hope to incorporate:
- School-Community Partnerships, where we will build a strong relationship between the school and its community,
- Engaged Learning, where we incorporate hands-on and interactive teaching styles,
- Family Engagement, where we encourage families to participate with their children's learning, and
- Health and Wellness, where we provide nutritional meals, resources, and activities to promote physical and mental wellbeing.
Vision
Our vision is that students participating in our programs will succeed academically, graduate, envision a college pathway, and a positive future.
Mission
Our mission is to provide high quality expanded learning program activities to improve students’ 21st Century skills, help them build protective factors and resiliency assets, and assist families to support their students’ academic success.
Goals
- Provide activities that address students’ emotional, social, environmental, physical, and cognitive needs
- Develop students 21st Century skills through concrete and focused strategies in STEEAAM subject areas
- Increase students’ chances of graduating and attending college
- Provide activities to reconnect students to school life
- Provide parent involvement and family literacy activities to assist parents to support their students’ success
A Message from Project Director: Glynda Hull
In a global and digital world, a premium is placed on new kinds of skills and knowledge: communicating effectively to diverse and distant audiences; organizing, analyzing, and deploying informatic data into knowledge that people can use every day; creating and thinking collaboratively to solving complex interdisciplinary problems; and using technological tools effectively and responsibly. Such skills and dispositions are critical in preparing our students to compete for jobs, become effective and ethical citizens, and positioning them to be authors of rewarding personal futures. We plan to foster the acquisition of such skills and knowledge, with a special emphasis on STEEAAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Executive functioning, Arts, Athletics, and Math), through a careful interweaving of academic assistance and enrichment.
What is STEEAAM?
Learn more about the core value of our Expanded Learning Program below!
Understand the STEEAAM Framework
The core of the ECUC 21st CCLC program is embodied in a framework we refer to as STEEAAM, which is a combination of academic assistance, enrichment, and family literacy and the California Common Core Standards (CCCs). STEEAAM stands for:
- Science
- Technology
- Engineering
- Executive Functioning
- Arts
- Athletics
- Math
Build Relevant Skills
With the STEEAAM framework, academic assistance, and enrichment activities, the ECUC 21st Century CLC Program will foster career exploration and stimulate interests in careers to expand students' horizons through research on careers, job shadowing experiences, and internships to various careers available to their school site and in their communities.
Re-Connect with School Life
Academic success occurs with focus on each student's essential needs and competencies being addressed -- emotional, social, environmental, physical, and cognitice. Meaningful activities and enrichming connections can help students' chances of graduating and help them envision a college pathway.
Eager to learn more?
Visit the links below to meet our team, view our school sites, and apply to the Expanded Learning Program!