New Genesis Success Academy

After School Program

New Genesis Success Academy (NGSA) is modeled after the nationally known “Harlem

Children’s Zone Project” (HCZ). Like Harlem Children Zone, New Genesis focuses on offering

an extended day and year program with additional social services available to support their

families.  

 

NGSA encourages youth to build a strong educational foundation and provides a safe,

structured environment where children can go during peak juvenile crime times. 

 

 

NGSA Tutoring

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Our staff here at New Genesis communicates with each child's teacher to receive homework assignments for the week and then strives to ensure each student completes his/her assignments. 

 

Volunteer tutors are also available to help children with their school subjects. Children work on other academic support programs such as web-based "Kid's College: Learning through Sports" education system which delivers MEAP aligned, graphically appealing, interactive sports and computerized games as reinforcement for correct answers on skills assessment with our elementary and middle school students.

 

 

Mentoring

 

​​The partnership with Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) has been an ongoing collaboration since 2007. BBBS will make sure a site-based approach is used to foster academic improvement by linking the mentor to the after-school setting and making education an important component of the mentoring relationship. Mentor matches are a one-to-one mentoring concept with a once-a-week meeting.

 

 

 

Fine Arts and

Fitness Activities

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To expose children and youth to fine arts and fitness, NGSA has worked with different local organizations and individuals such as the Black Arts Cultural Center, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo River Valley Trail and others. Dance, music, theater, visual arts, biking and team sports are some examples of the opportunities available to the youth who participate in the NGSA.

 

 

 

Technology

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As the demand for workers skilled in the sciences, technology, engineering and math continues to soar, educators are developing courses that will prepare children for the 21st century and beyond. NGSA will be working with Southwest Michigan Youth Spark to offer coding for elementary students. This program is an easy introduction to programming for beginners in lower elementary grades. It familiarizes students with visual programming techniques. Students' progress through the lessons learning concepts in a game-like interface. To complete each lesson, students typically go through a concept review, solve puzzles, run through a tutorial, build their own project and take a quiz. After completing these lessons students are able to build a wide variety of simple programs with events, loops, and some conditional logic.