Yes, Summer Institute starts soon! With dozens of sessions, Summer Institute offers something to suit the individual strengths and talents of each child. 

Academic Courses: NEW! Sessions will be offered remotely. See our new enrichment and acceleration programs, plus a new, extra session in August. All academic courses which will be run remotely will include: 

• 45-60 minutes daily of synchronous teaching and learning where the class meets together virtually
• Opportunity for teacher-student one-on-one connection and small group work during virtual office hours
• Plus, independent student work

Fun Camp: NEW!  Fun Camp is Home, our remote learning program, will be offered for six weeks. You can sign up for the full program or for a combination of weeks that works for your summer plans! 

Sports Clinics: Clinics are canceled for this year. 

Remote courses will leverage the best practices of KingIsHome, our successful remote learning program, which provides a mix of synchronous and asynchronous teaching and learning. 

• In synchronous remote learning, participants interact at the same time and in the same virtual space. For example, the entire class would participate in an interactive videoconference, or a teacher would conduct a help session virtually with a student. 
• In asynchronous remote learning, participants interact in elapsed time, as we do with email, online discussion forums, blogs, podcasts, etc. Learners are not together with each other or participating in the same activities all at the same moment.

1 Definitions derive from The Aurora Institute (formerly iNACOL: the International Association for K-12 Online Learning): http://www.aurora-institute.org/wp-content/uploads/iNACOL_DefinitionsProject.pdf

All fees must accompany the student’s registration form in order for the student to participate. The Summer Institute reserves the right to add or cancel courses at any time based on enrollment or staffing. If a class is canceled for any reason, we will immediately notify the student’s family and a refund check will be issued. 

After we identify if a class will be offered in person, remote, or as a blend of both, we will email this information to all registrants. Registrants will then have one week to decide if they wish to cancel their registration and receive a full refund. Registrants can cancel via email. If King does not receive a notification of withdrawal, then the student will remain enrolled and the fee will not be refunded. 

When a course's enrollment capacity is full, a notice will be placed next to that course on this website.

Yes, some may be taken for credit with the approval of the student’s home school. Any of the six week courses qualify. Since a great deal of material must be covered in these six weeks, these classes move at a quick pace and up to two hours of homework is assigned per night. Only students who are prepared to move at this pace and complete significant nightly homework should consider these courses. In addition, we are very pleased that these classes have been officially recognized as credible "for credit" courses by both independent and public school.

Other than classes taken for credit (see above) Upper School academic classes assign 30 to 60 minutes of homework per night. Some of the Middle School classes may have up to about 20 to 30 minutes of homework per night.

Most classes enroll between six and eight students. Our most popular classes may have as many as twelve to fourteen students enrolled.

Absolutely. We made the schedule such that you can pick a combination of the courses and make a personalized grouping of courses. Many students sign up for combinations of 3 week courses, after their morning six week courses, or students take a varied combination of three week courses. Make your schedule as long or as short as your summer time permits.

Ideally, a student should enroll as early as possible in order to secure a spot in a given class. However, in the event that the class is not filled, a student may enroll up to the first day of class.

In short, all sorts. Students from over 20 different schools. These schools consist of Fairfield and Westchester County public and independent schools and boarding schools across the Northeast. And, like King in general, we experience a strong diversity of students from many different ages and backgrounds. Our Summer Institute students are motivated and have found their experience here academically and personally rewarding, regardless of who they are or where they are from.

In most cases, yes. Missing classes becomes a bigger issue if the course is a “for credit” course. In this event, roughly a week’s worth of material is covered each day, which means that missing a day will require significant make-up work with the teacher. However, this can be worked out, and students who miss a day or two must take some initiative to catch up without impacting their experience and course completion.

Absolutely! One of the things we pride ourselves on is the individual attention that each student receives from his/her teachers. It is not at all uncommon for a teacher to telephone a student’s parents to discuss progress, to stay late or come in early to meet privately with a student, or to assess a student in a way that brings out their inherent abilities. The Summer Institute teachers are also happy, with a parent’s permission, to contact a student’s home school teacher in a given subject to get background information, discuss progress, and report results.

Please email summerinstitute@kingschoolct.org and we will send you the registration form. Once you complete the form and send alongside your check you will receive registration confirmation and you will be all set!

Tuition assistance is need-based, and all requests need to be made by April 15. For further instructions please contact Marc Saracino, Assistant Director of Admissions, at msaracino@kingschoolct.org|
or call (203) 322-3496, Ext. 490.