Academic support
Goal setting, learning routines, small-group guidance, and support using approved curriculum or learning platforms.
Education · Community · Purpose
Every strength belongs in the learning story.
Synergy Challenge Academy is building a community-rooted learning model where K-12 students can strengthen academic skills, explore STEAM and responsible AI, grow in confidence, and learn alongside families and caring adults.
Founding partnerships and pilot interest now being developed
Why Synergy
Learning becomes stronger when support works together.
Families often navigate separate systems for academics, enrichment, mentoring, and practical support. Synergy Challenge Academy is designed to connect those pieces in accessible neighborhood settings.
Our developing model brings together responsive instruction, family partnership, trusted community relationships, and future-ready learning. We are beginning with a focused pilot so that safety, program quality, accountability, and sustainable growth remain central.
“We are not building around what students lack. We are uniting the strengths already present in students, families, educators, churches, and communities.Latasha Whiting · Founder and Executive Director
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Experienced educational leadership
More than 20 years serving students and educators
Latasha Whiting’s background spans classroom teaching, instructional support, student services, educator coaching, professional learning, and school leadership. Her master’s degree in curriculum and instruction informs an approach grounded in learning science and measurable improvement.
The learning model
Whole-child support with a clear academic purpose.
Final offerings will be shaped by community need, approved partnerships, staffing, funding, and site capacity.
Literacy development
Reading, writing, vocabulary, comprehension, and communication through engaging, responsive practice.
STEAM and responsible AI
Hands-on design, technology, career exploration, and age-appropriate AI literacy grounded in ethics and verification.
Mentoring and leadership
Consistent relationships, reflection, service, goal review, and opportunities to build agency and confidence.
Family partnership
Clear communication, practical workshops, feedback, resource navigation, and support for learning at home.
Our aim
Students who feel capable, connected, curious, and prepared to keep growing.
Church partnerships
Extend ministry into the week through a responsible learning partnership.
A church-hosted learning hub can place support in a familiar neighborhood setting while creating structured opportunities for service. The church provides trusted community presence and appropriate space; the Academy leads approved educational operations.
Start a partnership conversation →A thoughtful pilot begins with
- Mission and governance alignment
- A written agreement with clear roles
- Facility, insurance, and safety review
- Screened and prepared staff and volunteers
- Family orientation and communication
- 30-, 60-, and 90-day progress reviews
For families
A place to learn, belong, and discover what comes next.
What families can expect
Clear expectations. Caring adults. Purposeful learning. Consistent communication. A program that listens before it grows.
The pilot interest process
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Share your interest. Tell us the student’s grade level, general learning needs, and preferred location.
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Receive program details. We will share confirmed dates, site, eligibility, schedule, costs, and requirements when available.
- 3
Complete enrollment. Participation is confirmed only after required forms, permissions, and orientation are complete.
Build with us
There is more than one way to strengthen the learning community.
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Volunteer
Support learning, mentoring, STEAM experiences, family engagement, hospitality, or operations. Placement will reflect program needs, screening, preparation, and supervision.
Offer your skills →P
Partner
Churches, educators, employers, colleges, nonprofits, and service providers can help create stronger pathways for students and families.
Explore partnership →S
Sponsor
Foundation, corporate, and individual support can help provide curriculum, technology, student materials, qualified people, family access, safety systems, and evaluation.
Support a student →Take the next step
Tell us how you want to connect.
Choose the pathway that best fits you. Your email will open with a short subject line so the Synergy team knows how to respond.