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At WTEF, we believe in developing minds in the classroom
and on the tennis court. All WTEF programs intentionally
combine tennis instruction with academic enrichment. The
skills our children master through tennis such as –
discipline, self-confidence, goal-setting, self-reliance
and teamwork – are the same skills we show them how
to use in the classroom to help them succeed academically
and lead a positive life path.
WTEF Programs:
The Arthur Ashe
Children's Program (AACP) is our flagship after-school
program, serving approximately 450 at-risk students in grades
2 through 9 at 20 DC schools (13 elementary and 7 middle/junior
high) in DC’s most underserved neighborhoods (Wards
5, 6, 7, and 8). This is the 14th year for this free-of-charge
academic, athletic, and life-skills program.
WTEF’s Center
for Excellence (CFE) offers after-school academics,
tennis instruction and competition, college preparatory
activities, and life-skills training for Washington, DC
at-risk children and youth, grades 1-12. The CFE meets at
the William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center in Northwest DC.
The Arthur
Ashe Reading Is Fundamental® Program (AARIF)
is a free-of-charge literacy program that WTEF makes available
to students from neighborhood schools in Wards 4 and 5 each
week. The AARIF meets at WTEF’s facility in the William
H.G. Fitzgerald Tennis Center in Rock Creek Park.
WTEF's Community Outreach component,
bringing tennis instruction to five DC Public Schools during
their regularly scheduled P.E. periods. During the summer,
WTEF partners with five area summer camps to offer a one-week
session of tennis instruction to hundreds of children. |