Landscape assessments can empower districts with data to level the playing field and expand access and quality experiences for students.
Community leaders from across the country are working to expand summer opportunities by replicating successful, evidence-based practices through cross-sector collective impact approaches. Such practices include:
Creating a statewide summer steering committee
Assessing gaps in services and developing an action plan
Focusing resources on research-based interventions
Leveraging funding and capacity community-wide for marketing, data management and quality assurance
Finding creative and sustainable ways to fund summer opportunities long term
REAL Kids is an award-winning program run by
DREAM, a youth organization headquartered in East Harlem, NY. Youth in grades K-5 spend their summer on a baseball or softball team and participate in literacy and team-building activities.
In 2017, 99 percent of participants successfully maintained or improved their literacy levels.
DREAM is a national partner of the New Vision for Summer School Network.
Learn more.
Mini-Grants Available for Gen2Gen Summer Projects!
Gen2Gen is giving away 10 mini-grants of up to $250 for fun, creative summer projects that bring older adults and kids together for meaningful interactions, like a reading garden, intergenerational block party, book club launch/gathering, or an at-the-laundromat literacy activity. The possibilities are endless!
As you know, summer can be hard on kids who lose access to school meals, safe places to play, and opportunities to learn. In fact, by the fifth grade, summer learning loss can leave low-income students two-and-a-half to three years behind their peers.
NSLA and Gen2Gen believes that summer projects can help change that.
We'd love your help spreading the word!Our digital toolkit makes it easy for you to share with your networks, and applying for a grant from the Gen2Gen Summer Fun(d) is just as easy. This simple application takes less than 10 minutes to complete. Be sure to tell people in your network to indicate on the form that they heard about the Summer Fun(d) from NSLA. We'll announce all the winners this summer.
Join NSLA and No Kid Hungry on June 28 at 2pm EST for
a webinar to learn how your program can elevate the importance of summer meals for healthy youth and community development.
The Suncoast Campaign for Grade-Level Reading has posted their summer program on NSLA's
National Summer Learning Day Events Tracker. Check out their
2018 Suncoast Summer Book Challenge, in 78 locations including this one at a local YMCA.
Chicago Public Library has also posted 74 events in different library locations across Chicago. This one features the official book for National Summer Learning Day, Trombone Shorty.
It's #SummerCare Week of Action and the Center for American Progress has released a
new analysis estimating how much parents in each state spend on summer programming.
The analysis shows that summer care is way out of reach for many families across the states: The average family can expect to pay more than $3,000 in summer programming this year--or 20 percent of its income for those months--to cover just 5 weeks of programming.
