| | | | |
The National Summer Learning Association provides services to communities, school districts, and programs to support your efforts to make quality summer learning programs accessible to youth. Whether you're just starting out or building capacity, whether you're in need of strategic guidance, program quality assessment, or training resources, we're prepared to help you build a sustainable solution. 
|
|
|
"Two-thirds of the ninth grade achievement gap can be explained by unequal access to summer learning opportunities during the elementary school years." 
|
|
| | |
As a member of the National Summer Learning Association, you'll be front and center as we lead the way on summer learning advocacy, and open the doors for affiliation and exchange of ideas and learning with other high-quality programs. You'll have access to practical resources that keep you informed and help improve program quality, and you'll receive discounts on publications, tools, and event registration, including our annual national conference. 
|
| | |
| If you were to walk into a Hasbro Summer Learning Initiative (HSLI) site in the summer, you would see youth crafting original poems into theater performance, testing water quality at a local pond, or putting their poetry to hip-hop drum rhythms and recording their artistic expressions onto CDs. HSLI supports a network of 40 afterschool and summer programs in the Pioneer Valley region of western Massachusetts by providing engaging, thematic curriculum, literacy supports, and other assistance to improve the programs’ overall quality. A majority of the children come from low-income households and live in urban or rural communities, where quality after-school and summer programs are often under-funded. Programs that have used HSLI’s curricula and other supports report that children and youth are more engaged, attendance has improved, and families and staff have higher satisfaction levels, as evidenced by the high level of youth engagement.This past summer, children spent increased time on literacy activities, with support from literacy specialists who are also reading teachers in local public schools. Sixteen sites participated in pre-and-post test on reading fluency, using DIBELS, and the average score for all sites showed reduced summer reading loss, compared to typical reading loss for low-income children. In fact, the average scores in 13 of the 16 sites stayed level or showed advances. Read more about Excellence in Summer Learning Awards |
|
|
|
|
