Reading, Math, and Sports for Success

 
 
American Baseball Foundation



The Baseball & Academic Skills Instructional Course of the American Baseball Foundation Inc. redresses reading and math loss (last 15 BASIC programs have produced on average 2.4 months gain in reading and 3.8 months gain in math) among at-risk students, grades one through eight. The program’s methodology guarantees student enjoyment and physical fitness, as they rotate from an academic station to a sports or sports games station at set intervals. Students become part of “home teams” that teach team building in academics as well as sports. Studens learn sports in a safe environment that teaches cooperation and perseverance.

BASIC Expands in 2022

Post COVID BASIC summer programming has engendered these on average results for approximately 60 students per program:

2021 East - 6.8 months gain in math and 5.6 months in reading

2022 South - 4 months gain in reading and 3 months gain in math

2022 East - 4 months gain in math and 2 months gain in reading

In 2022 over 50% of the students in the East program were repeat students and seven ex-participants volunteered every day of the program, amassing over 800 hours of service to their younger counterparts.

Building on the new BASIC program in Shelby County in which almost all of the participants had to be recruited, the ABF will implement two programs in Central Alabama during June 2023. One program will be at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Center Point on the eastern side of Birmingham (host for three of the last four programs in that area) and the second a return to Indian Springs Baptist Church in Shelby County. The simultaneous programs run for twenty-two days in June, 6.5 hours per day in which the students rotate among stations of reading, math, sports, reading movement games and ABF STEM lessons related to sports.

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The ABF thanks its BASIC Sponsors & Partners 2022

Vulcan Materials Company * The Daniel Foundation * Mike & Gillian Goodrich Foundation * Better Basics Inc * Birmingham Barons LLC * Dick’s Sporting Goods * Caring Foundation of BCBS of AL * Publix Super Markets Charities * Jugs Inc. * Children’s Fresh Air Farms * SAIL Consortium * Charles T. Campbell Charitable Foundation * Hamburger Heaven * Donato’s Pizza *Hispanic Ministry St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church* Honda Motor Manufacturing of Alabama * Michael Brown * Tom Scarritt *Garrett Sutton* Doug Smith * Alabama Power Foundation * United Way of Central Alabama * Redmond Hogan * Neil McFadden * McConnel, White & Terry * Luke Dunn *Hillcrest Foundation, Inc. * Suzanne & Mike Graham * Morgan & Susan Eiland * Tom Hazuka * * Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church * John Carroll Catholic High School* Mizuno USA * Protective Life Foundation * Cutting Tools Engineers * Brownlee Morrow Enterprises Inc. * Southwest Airlines * Markwort Sporting Goods C Flap * Alabama Civil Justice Foundation * The Southern Imagination Foundation * Celia & Steven Voorhees * Osinski Family Trust* Regions Bank * Nathan Bland * Medical Properties Trust * Indian Springs First Baptist Church * Zyne Family Foundation * Robert R. Meyer Foundation * Joseph S. Bruno Foundation * The Daniel Foundation of Alabama * Dollar General Foundation * Alan Yeilding * Jim and Eva Robertson * Willis Sports Inc.

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