The Summer Learning Institute (SLI) uses a three-pronged approach to address the academic, career development, and social and emotional needs of Boston Public School students. SLI students spend over 120 hours engaged in an intensive series of learning opportunities. Freedom House helps students develop a college-going identity through service projects, college-going experiences, and help foster their developmental mindset!

Our workforce development partners connect students to Freedom House with community-based jobs for a quality work-based learning experience. Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology provides students with dual enrollment courses that accelerate college credit accumulation and college readiness. This approach helps students see the relevance of their learning as they use their educational foundation to succeed in college and the workplace. Students can also develop leadership, advocacy and life skills through workshops and civic engagement projects that directly translate to their jobs, interactions with their professors, and relationships with their peers.