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when is spring into swing?
March 17, 2024 - 7:00PM
The Paramount Theater
Charlottesville, VA
The Paramount Theater
Charlottesville, VA
2024 Guest artists |
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John D'earth
Charles Owens Taylor Barnett Andrew Randazzo Greg Thomas Bobby Gregg Michael Elswick Renae George Malik Poindexter |
What is swing into spring?
The annual "Swing Into Spring" concert is presented by the Albemarle High School Jazz Ensemble each spring in Charlottesville, VA. In addition to the jazz ensemble, the concert features some of the best local and regional jazz musicians. The concert began in 2018 as a fundraiser to help the band pay for their travels as a finalist in the Savannah Swing Central Jazz Festival held in Savannah, GA. Since then, the event has turned into a benefit concert for local organizations in the Charlottesville-Albemarle community. All proceeds for the 2024 concert will be benefiting City of Promise.
About City of promise
City of Promise’s goal is to make a positive impact on generational poverty and support a culture of achievement through child-centered dual generation, family self-sufficiency initiatives in Charlottesville.
Ways that City of Promise Helps
Pathway Coaching
Pathway coaching is an evidence-based model intended to support the academic and socioemotional growth of our community’s youth. Focused on coaching, mentoring, tutoring, goal setting, and resource brokering, our Pathway Coaches collaborate with teachers and administrators to address academic and behavioral needs and act as resource brokers. Pathway Coaches are embedded in the local schools and students are assigned to a coach based on their age.
Dreambuilders
Dreambuilders is a program focused on empowering parents and their children to reach their goals. The program is centered around creating family self-sufficiency and a culture of achievement for adults and their children. Dreambuilders is built on the NCFL (National Center for Families Learning) framework of parent time, child time, PACT (parent and child together) time, and Pathway Coaching. The curriculum for Dreambuilders is centered around the identified and expressed needs of the participants. Topics have included parent/teacher etiquette, creating/managing a family budget, and how to discuss/manage bullying.
LaunchPad Initiative
We have to listen to what the data tell us, and it’s screaming “start younger.” Currently, in Charlottesville City Schools, less than 40% of under-resourced students are reading at or above grade level. The Virginia Community School Framework (VCSF) is a product of the Virginia Department of Education that seeks to remove nonacademic barriers to learning as a means to enhance student academic success. Our pilot model, in partnership with Charlottesville City Schools and Venable Elementary School is born from this framework, centered around creating opportunities, empowering individuals and families, and providing wrap-around services to students and their parents to address documented deficiencies in reading, math, behavior, and attendance.
Community Partnerships
Pathway coaching is an evidence-based model intended to support the academic and socioemotional growth of our community’s youth. Focused on coaching, mentoring, tutoring, goal setting, and resource brokering, our Pathway Coaches collaborate with teachers and administrators to address academic and behavioral needs and act as resource brokers. At Walker, Buford, and Charlottesville High School, our Pathway Coaches support students in school and in the community, connecting them to extracurricular activities and complementary resources.
Ways that City of Promise Helps
Pathway Coaching
Pathway coaching is an evidence-based model intended to support the academic and socioemotional growth of our community’s youth. Focused on coaching, mentoring, tutoring, goal setting, and resource brokering, our Pathway Coaches collaborate with teachers and administrators to address academic and behavioral needs and act as resource brokers. Pathway Coaches are embedded in the local schools and students are assigned to a coach based on their age.
Dreambuilders
Dreambuilders is a program focused on empowering parents and their children to reach their goals. The program is centered around creating family self-sufficiency and a culture of achievement for adults and their children. Dreambuilders is built on the NCFL (National Center for Families Learning) framework of parent time, child time, PACT (parent and child together) time, and Pathway Coaching. The curriculum for Dreambuilders is centered around the identified and expressed needs of the participants. Topics have included parent/teacher etiquette, creating/managing a family budget, and how to discuss/manage bullying.
LaunchPad Initiative
We have to listen to what the data tell us, and it’s screaming “start younger.” Currently, in Charlottesville City Schools, less than 40% of under-resourced students are reading at or above grade level. The Virginia Community School Framework (VCSF) is a product of the Virginia Department of Education that seeks to remove nonacademic barriers to learning as a means to enhance student academic success. Our pilot model, in partnership with Charlottesville City Schools and Venable Elementary School is born from this framework, centered around creating opportunities, empowering individuals and families, and providing wrap-around services to students and their parents to address documented deficiencies in reading, math, behavior, and attendance.
Community Partnerships
Pathway coaching is an evidence-based model intended to support the academic and socioemotional growth of our community’s youth. Focused on coaching, mentoring, tutoring, goal setting, and resource brokering, our Pathway Coaches collaborate with teachers and administrators to address academic and behavioral needs and act as resource brokers. At Walker, Buford, and Charlottesville High School, our Pathway Coaches support students in school and in the community, connecting them to extracurricular activities and complementary resources.
THanks to our 2024 sponsors
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Past guest artistsCharles Owens
Taylor Barnett Bobby Gregg Elise Underwood John D'Earth Greg Thomas Michael Elswick Ivan Orr Ginny Bruno Jennifer Morris Owen Brown Terry Allard John Kelly Will Evans Lydie Omesiete Veronica Swift Stephanie Nakasian Jamal Millner Michael Coleman Erin Lunsford Madeline Holly-Sales Humberto Sales Robert Jospe Devon Sproule Danny Barale Chance Dickerson Barbara Edwards |
past beneficiaries
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WTJU 2022 Interview about
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Promo video for 2022 Concert Benefiting the Haven |
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