This year, NAI started an innovative new program to get boys reading by the third grade. About 50 kindergareners from the USC Family of Schools spend Saturdays learning how to read without using textbooks. Instead the focus is on activities where reading leads to rewards, such as instructions on creating a lava lamp with Alka Seltzer and food coloring.
While the kids play to learn, the parents are mentored on child development by Sean Taitt, a bilingual program manager who helped develop the curriculum.
The program, funded in part by a donation from Judge James “Jimmy” Reese ’46, will follow the boys all the way through sixth grade, when they would transition into the NAI program.
The USC NAI Theater Workshop's goal is to support student literary scholarship through the performing arts. As students explore a piece of text, their imaginations are most fully engaged as they bring it to life. This workshop is a rare opportunity for students to experience transformation through the power of a story.
USC NAI Theater Workshop
USC Kinder to College
Community Service Project
