Alabama Program Helps Students SAIL Into New School Year

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By Anna Catherine Roberson

As schools in Alabama are starting this fall, Summer Adventures in Learning (SAIL) has wrapped up a successful summer of virtual and in-person learning for students across Alabama.

Beginning in 1922 as a summer camp in Birmingham for inner-city youths through the Independent Presbyterian Church Children’s Fresh Air Farm, SAIL converted to a day school model in 2010 to prevent summer learning loss in at-risk students. Since then, more than 12,500 students have participated in SAIL programs throughout the state.

“What we are doing is trying to equip children for successful lives,” said Jim Wooten, chairman of the SAIL board of directors. “In particular, we are worried about children from underserved neighborhoods, kids with roadblock after roadblock ahead of them.”

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