Welcome to Nueva Summer!
June 28 – July 30, 2021!
Our 2021 program is now open for application. Please follow the links below!
This summer, all of our classes will be held online.
Please take some time to explore our 2021 program.
Our Expedition programs are designed to spark student creativity and inspire learners from all over the San Francisco Bay Area.
Join us to deeply explore literature, art, debate, design thinking and engineering, and math! Nueva Summer’s Expedition program is a fun, multidisciplinary camp experience designed for high-ability learners entering grades 1–12. It is led by Nueva teachers and visiting educators and incorporates Nueva’s teaching practices developed through more than 50 years of experience.
Enroll in one week of enriching, hands-on activities, games, and learning, or join us for the entire program! Our extensive selection of classes allows you to have a new experience each week.
If you have questions, please visit our FAQ page for more information.
The 2021 Nueva Summer Expedition Line-Up!
Registration Information
Registration Information
We are now accepting applications for our 2021 program.
Please review the guidelines below prior to applying. When applying, please remember to apply at the grade level your camper will be entering in the fall of 2021!
Thank you so much for your interest in Nueva Summer!
2021 Nueva Summer Pricing:
Lower School Expedition: $540 per week
Middle and Upper School Expedition: $675 per week
2021 Application and Registration Guidelines
All families are invited to apply for Nueva Summer!
If you are new to Nueva Summer, and are applying from a school outside of Nueva, you must upload the following documentation at the time of application:
Option #1: Recent standardized test score *We do not consider WISC-V, or other IQ test scores, for Nueva Summer. |
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Option #2: Recent school report card |
Additionally, in order to get a better sense of each camper as a learner, we ask that newly applying families have this form completed by a teacher at your child's school. Unlike, the required documentation listed above, it is no problem for this form to be completed after an application is submitted.
Financial Awards
Financial awards are available for families who qualify. To apply for financial award, please complete the Nueva Summer Financial Award form for each child you wish you enroll. You may submit the completed forms to fasummer@nuevaschool.org.
Questions?
Visit our FAQ page for more information.
Lower School
Lower School Expedition (Grades 1-4)
In the summer of 2021, Lower School Expedition will be entering its fourth year!
Each week, a team of Nueva educators will learn alongside our campers as we embark on thematic, interdisciplinary study designed to be immersive and fun while providing skills that campers can add to their life-long learning toolbox.
The program consists of five unique weeks of content, rooted in Literature Club, Community Building, Dance and Movement, Ecology, Scientific Deep Dives, Design Thinking, and Mathematical Exploration.
In 2021, campers in Lower School Expedition will participate in four individual hour-long classes each day at the following times:
- 8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
- 9:45 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
- 11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. PE (All 1–4 Grade Campers)
- 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
All campers will rotate through classes in the following content areas:
- Humanities
- Theater/Movement
- STEM Sessions
- Physical Education Class
If you have questions, please email our team at summer@nuevaschool.org.
Meet the 2021 Lower School Expedition Team
- Shelby Barthold (Lower School Teacher, SDUSD and Nueva Summer Veteran)
- Rashida Blade (Lower School Associate Teacher, The Nueva School)
- Jahi Johnson (Lower School Teacher, The Nueva School)
- Sasha Knight (Lower School Teacher, The Nueva School)
- Joao Santa-Rita (Associate Teacher, The Nueva School)
- Nikolas Strubbe (Nueva Alum, Educator, and Circus Guru)
- Helen Wicks (Dance Instructor, Nueva Summer Veteran Teacher)
Week 1: June 28–July 2
Culture and Geography
Join us for a virtual, interdisciplinary journey around the world where students will explore the physical and human geography of various regions. They will study the history of different regions and explore the political, economic, and cultural characteristics of our world. Together, we will investigate maps, unique locations, and communities to help us deepen our understanding of what it means to be human.
Week 2: July 5–9
Fact vs. Fiction
Calling all fact finders and myth busters: What are the tools that help us distinguish what is real from what is fiction? Join us as we explore the art of investigative research, science, and collaborative learning. With so much information coming our way each moment of the day, now is the time to develop our critical thinking lens and media literacy skills.
Week 3: July 12–16
A Beloved Community
Imagine a world where all people are valued, respected, and treated with dignity. Poverty, racism, and militarism are barriers to our living in the Beloved Community. The Beloved Community is not a utopia; it’s a society based upon justice and love, that is realistic and achievable. What actions can we take to continue to strengthen our community and our connections with others? Over the course of the week, campers will discover the meaning of community, togetherness, and perseverance through shared readings, projects, conversations, and explorations.
Week 4: July 19–23
Childhood and Identity
Do you ever wonder what your great-great-grandparents would do or say if they were across the table from you? Or what games they would want to play? Which stories might they share about their childhoods?
Join us as we explore the magic, creativity, and curiosity of childhood–our own and those of our ancestors. Through games, literature, and historical explorations, we will work to find the connections between our shared and unique childhood stories.
Week 5: July 26–30
Life Journals
Have you ever wondered about what a documentary of your life might be? Join us as we build a toolbox to document our daily tasks, wonders, and experiences. Journaling dreams. Breakfast highlights. Plant growth. New words. Our journals will inspire new questions, stories, and ways to move our bodies and minds and hopefully discover e new traditions and ways of navigating the world.
2021 Nueva Summer Pricing:
Lower School Expedition: $540 per week
Middle and Upper School Expedition: $675 per week
Middle School
2021 Middle School Expedition (Grades 5–8)
Our Middle School Expedition program is designed to be fun, rigorous and engaging, showcasing the best of Nueva's "learn by doing" philosophy. Each offering aims to provide campers unique opportunities to explore academic passions in greater depth while working with Nueva teachers, students, and visiting college professors. Campers will experience Nueva's constructivist, project- and inquiry-based learning environment, and cultivate new skills and interests.
This summer all of our programs will be hosted online, via password-protected Zoom sessions.
Our morning classes will be meet 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.
All afternoon classes will meet at 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m.
There will be some level of asynchronous work for campers to work on each day between classes, however, there is rarely required homework for Nueva Summer classes.
Please partner with your child to choose the classes that they would most enjoy.
All campers will have the option to participate in 30-minute, teacher-led recess and PE classes throughout the day at: 10:00 a.m., 12:00 p.m., and 2:00 p.m.
If you have questions, please email our team at summer@nuevaschool.org.
Week 1: June 28–July 2
Lee Miller
• Grades 5-6 (Mornings)
• Grades 7-8 (Afternoons) Class Almost Full
Michelle Grau
• Grades 5-6 (Afternoons)
• Grades 7-8 (Mornings)
Jennifer Perry
• Grades 5-6 (Mornings)
• Grades 7-8 (Afternoons)
Veena Krishnan
• Grades 5-6 (Afternoons)
LiAnn Yim
• Grades 5-6 (Afternoons)
• Grades 7-8 (Mornings)
Sarah Joy Espinoza-Evans
• Grades 5-6 (Mornings)
• Grades 7-8 (Afternoons)
Veena Krishnan
• Grades 7-8 (Mornings)
Week 2: July 5–9
Lee Miller
• Grades 5-6 (Mornings)
• Grades 7-8 (Afternoons) Class Almost Full
Les Phillips
• Grades 5-6 (Afternoons)
• Grades 7-8 (Mornings)
Jana Comstock
• Grades 5-6 (Afternoons)
• Grades 7-8 (Mornings)
Francine Farouz
• Grades 5-6 (Mornings)
• Grades 7-8 (Afternoons)
Michael Leopold
• Grades 5-6 (Afternoons)
• Grades 7-8 (Mornings)
Rachel Dawson
• Grades 5-6 (Mornings)
• Grades 7-8 (Afternoons)
Week 3: July 12–16
Rachel Dawson
• Grades 5-6 (Afternoons)
• Grades 7-8 (Mornings)
Lee Ryan Miller
• Grades 5-6 (Mornings)
• Grades 7-8 (Afternoons)
Cody Alan
• Grades 5-6 (Mornings)
• Grades 7-8 (Afternoons)
Michael Leopold
• Grades 5-6 (Mornings)
• Grades 7-8 (Afternoons)
Cristina Veresan
• Grades 5-6 (Afternoons)
• Grades 7-8 (Mornings)
Rob Zomber
• Grades 5-6 (Afternoons)
• Grades 7-8 (Mornings)
Week 4: July 19–23
Rob Zomber
• Grades 5-6 (Mornings)
• Grades 7-8 (Afternoons)
Judith Worrall
• Grades 5-6 (Mornings)
• Grades 7-8 (Afternoons)
Lee Miller
• Grades 5-6 (Mornings)
• Grades 7-8 (Afternoons)
Maryam Tafreshi
• Grades 5-6 (Afternoons)
• Grades 7-8 (Mornings)
Cristina Veresan
• Grades 5-6 (Afternoons)
• Grades 7-8 (Mornings)
Sushu Xia
• Grades 5-6 (Afternoons)
• Grades 7-8 (Mornings)
Week 5: July 26–30
Sarah Koning
• Grades 5-6 (Afternoon)
• Grades 7-8 (Mornings)
Alexa Hart
• Grades 5-6 (Afternoons)
• Grades 7-8 (Mornings)
Reenie Charriere
• Grades 5-6 (Mornings)
• Grades 7-8 (Afternoons)
Michelle Greenberg
• Grades 5-6 (Mornings)
• Grades 7-8 (Afternoons)
Steven Chanan
• Grades 5-6 (Afternoons)
• Grades 7-8 (Mornings)
Triple Oswald
• Grades 5-6 (Mornings)
• Grades 7-8 (Afternoons)
2021 Nueva Summer Pricing:
Lower School Expedition: $540 per week
Middle and Upper School Expedition: $675 per week
Upper School
2021 Upper School Expedition (Grades 8-12)
In this third year of Upper School Expedition, we are thrilled to offer two weeks of our Parliamentary and Public Forum Debate Camps. The course will be held July 12–23.
Participants can join either offering for one or two weeks. Our Upper School Expedition classes provide students entering grades 8–12 with an opportunity to take an immersive deep-dive inspired by Nueva’s mission to instill life-long learning skills in our all of our learners and community members.
July 12–23
Upper School Parliamentary and Public Forum Debate Camps
Sam Timinsky & Les Philips
What does our program offer?
Our Upper School Parliamentary Debate Camp is designed for high school students (rising ninth through twelfth grade) who are interested in competitive parliamentary debate. We welcome beginners — we delight in introducing debate to new students, and we give them our very best attention. We also welcome strong, experienced students who are ready to extend themselves and move to the next level, guided by our deeply experienced coaching staff.
Nueva has developed a sophisticated remote learning system currently being used to support daily instruction of our 940 PreK–12 students. Debate staff and coaches have been teaching daily classes remotely, including judging online parliamentary debate rounds. And we are supported by Nueva’s superb seven-person Tech Office, which has supported one of the earliest one-to-one laptop technology programs in the country (now in our second decade).
We’ll provide rigorous training in debate research, the use of philosophical arguments in debate, debate theory, case writing, strategic thinking, and speaking tailored to both professional and lay judges. Newer debaters will spend more time developing foundational skills. This track involves a series of workshops, lectures, and practice sessions to drill specific skills, such as locating evidence and ad-libbing refutation. More advanced debaters will spend more time in sophisticated reading groups, writing sessions, and mini-debates. They will also take part in mini-topic lectures and practice debates that emphasize strategy development.
Ideally, students will attend for the full two weeks. However, the course is divided into two week-long blocks (five days of instruction), and students are welcome to sign up for either or both weeks.
Here is the schedule for Upper School Expedition:
· All morning sessions will meet via Zoom for hour-long classes at 9 and 11.
· All afternoon session will meet via Zoom for hour-long classes at 1 and 3.
· In addition to our previously scheduled classes, we will host a half-hour PE class each day at 12:30.
The hour-long breaks in our morning and afternoon classes will be programmed with asynchronous content and break times.
If you have questions, please email our team at summer@nuevaschool.org.
Les Phillips, a seven-diamond NSDA coach, has been the director of debate at The Nueva School since 2014. He has coached national champions in policy debate, Lincoln-Douglas debate, and public forum debate. Les has taught at more than twenty summer workshops; in 2008, he became the founding director of Stanford’s Public Forum Institute, a post he held through 2015. Les is also the author of two well-regarded books, BASIC DEBATE (1995), and A DICTIONARY OF DEBATE AND PUBLIC SPEAKING (2015). He has described debate teaching as “the very best way to model critical thinking.” Under his direction, Nueva’s parliamentary debaters have distinguished themselves at major invitationals, including NPDI and the Parli TOC.
Sam Timinsky teaches history and directs parliamentary debate at The Nueva School. He will soon receive his PhD in East Asian history from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He specializes in teaching research, writing, public presentation, and modern political and cultural history. Sam has taught debate and argumentation for nearly a decade and is formerly head coach of parliamentary debate at the University of Washington, where he coached several students to the National Parliamentary Tournament of Excellence. Sam also taught debate at the University of Washington’s Robinson Center for Young Scholars. He frequently serves on topic committees, and has become one of the most preferred judges in high school parliamentary debate.
Gia Karpouzis (Guest Lecturer) breadth and depth of experience in debate is phenomenal. She has won over 100 high school and college championship awards in both speech and debate. In college, Gia competed in both worlds and NPDA parliamentary debate. As a freshman, she reached the semifinal round at USUDC Nationals. In 2015 she was ranked 15th at the Worlds Universities Debating Championships in Malaysia, and was the first woman in her University's 100-year debate history to be named Debater of the Year. Gia is nationally recognized as a teacher of public forum and parliamentary debate. Her work as a senior faculty member at the Stanford National Forensic Institute drew rave reviews, and her teams from Westridge and Nueva have consistently placed in late elimination rounds at regional and national tournaments.
Zach Moss is the director of debate at Bishop O'Dowd High School and has been a senior instructor at the POI Institute for parliamentary debaters. He is a graduate of Concordia University, Irvine (BA, history) and the University of Wyoming (MA, rhetoric). Zach has been coaching parliamentary debate at the college and high school level since 2006. Zach’s philosophy of coaching rests on the understanding that students are holistic individuals who must be enriched mentally, supported emotionally, and given outlets for physical engagement. Their coaching methods insure that students at alevels of experience are “met where they are,” but are also given the tools for success beyond their comfort zone. Zach’s students have advanced to late elimination rounds at all of the major high school parli invitationals, and he is one of the most consistently preferred judges at competitive events.
2021 Nueva Summer Pricing:
Lower School Expedition: $540 per week
Middle and Upper School Expedition: $675 per week