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Achieve 2024 Recap
Greetings from Achieve!
While it’s been feeling like fall recently here in Dedham, at Achieve, summer is never far from our minds. This past July and August we celebrated our 16th summer at Achieve and it might just have been the best one yet!
This summer, we continued several traditions that make our community so special. Some highlights were the annual student vs. staff basketball tournament (I am sorry to report that this year, the students won); the lip-synch battle (this year we were joined by a team from Nobles Day Camp); and the Achieve Summer Learning Showcase, where each student presented their summer learning to their families and members of the broader Nobles community.
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Celebrating Our 16th Summer!
We are thrilled to share that the 16th summer of Achieve at is off to a fantastic start! Our dedicated teachers, full of energy and enthusiasm after a comprehensive orientation, warmly welcomed our students on July 1st. We’re all set for an incredible summer ahead.
This summer, we’re focusing on equipping students with the skills and knowledge they need for the upcoming school year while fostering a strong sense of community and creating a joyful environment. Our mornings are filled with engaging academic classes, and in the afternoons, students dive into a variety of enrichment activities. Our enrichment activities include outdoor games, theater, art, gardening, and dance. These activities not only enhance their skills but also bring so much joy.
It’s heartwarming to see the enthusiasm and engagement of our students as they dive into learning and build lasting friendships. Here’s to a wonderful summer of learning, growth, and fun at Achieve at Nobles!
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Achieve June 2024 Newsletter
A Message from the Director
Greetings from Achieve!
Our team is hard at work putting the final touches on plans for what I am sure will be the best summer yet!
The theme for Summer 2024 is “Sixteen Sweet Summers,” as we mark the 16th Summer of Achieve. We eagerly look forward to the return of special traditions like daily “Word of the Day” presentations to our community, the end-of-summer Field Day and lip-synch battle, and the Summer Learning Showcase. Most importantly, we look forward to celebrating our rising ninth graders, Pride 14, at their graduation on August 8th.
In this newsletter, you will find information about our newest class of scholars (Pride 15) as well as our graduates’ summer and post-high school plans. It will be a busy summer for the entire Achieve community, but we are so excited about what’s to come!
Sincerely,
Reginald Toussaint
Executive Director
Achieve in the Bay State Banner
When she started in the Achieve Program, Thalita Almondes of East Boston was good at reading, but she struggled in math.
Now three years later, she aces both.
“I’ve loved it,” said Almondes, who is now 13.
She is one of hundreds of middle school students who have participated in Achieve, which is now in its 15th year.
The tuition-free program, whose mission is to close the achievement gap and open access to learning, has helped roughly 400 middle school students get on a path to college or into one of the city’s three competitive exam schools. The program is based at The Noble and Greenough School, an independent boarding school in Dedham.
Achieve in the Boston Globe, November 2022
Dailin Morfa hated the classes she was taking.
She had moved from Boston as the pandemic raged to attend Denison University in Granville, Ohio. A graduate of Brooke Charter School Mattapan, Morfa was used to going to school with other students of color and being among the top in her class, but found herself feeling out of place at the predominantly white university while barely staying afloat academically.
Morfa, a first generation college student, turned to the people who helped her adjust to the rigors of Brooke Mattapan, the people who nominated her for the selective Posse Scholarship, the people who had tutored her since she was 11: the folks at the Achieve Program.
