III.3. Sanneh Foundation Update; Ballard
CITY OF HOPKINS
Memorandum
To: Honorable Mayor and Council Members
Mike Mornson, City Manager
From: Ari Lenz, Assistant City Manager
Date: March 14, 2023
Subject: Sanneh Foundation Update
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PURPOSE
Crystal Ballard, Hopkins High School Principal will be present to give an updated on the
Sanneh Foundation’s work.
INFORMATION
Council allocated up to $40,000 of ARPA funds to the Sanneh Foundation. The program
is aimed to support embedded tutor-mentors at HHS for the 2022-2023 school year via
the Sanneh Foundation’s Dreamline program - an academic intervention program
serving low-income, under-performing students in public middle schools and high
schools.
The communities hit hardest by the pandemic right now are overwhelmingly low-
income, highly-mobile, and food-insecure. Dreamline will embed three tutor-mentors
(i.e. Coaches) at HHS to provide services on-site to students identified as most in need
of intervention, whose teachers and administrators have identified as failing or near
failing, and whose academic futures are in the greatest jeopardy.
The majority of these students come from communities of color and speak numerous
languages, including but not limited to: English, Hmong, Spanish, and Somali.
Dreamline coaches provide enhanced academic intervention, culturally specific social -
emotional support, and academic assistance. The goal is to increase these students'
academic performance, to improve school connectedness, and to develop leadership
and relationship skills, so that they are empowered to positively contribute to their
school and the Hopkins community.
FUTURE ACTION
Sanneh Foundation will finish out the 2022-23 school year.
Administration