The Promise of Summer as a Time for Teacher Professional Learning
Helping teachers improve their instructional practice through high-quality professional learning opportunities is a key strategy for improving student academic, social, and emotional outcomes. Little is known about the professional learning activities teachers participate in over the summer. This report begins to fill that gap by presenting data from the first nationally representative survey of teachers […]
America After 3PM
America After 3PM The Afterschool Alliance‘s 4th edition of America After 3PM provides a detailed account of children in the afterschool hours, identifying: trends of participation in, and unmet demand for, afterschool programs; the experiences and opportunities programs afford; and which children and families are missing out, and why.
SSLS Summer Learning and Out-of-School Time Resource Guide
Download these helpful resources provided by partner organizations during NSLA’s Summer Solutions Leadership Series, November 16-18, 2020.
Spring Forward Summer Learning Program Quality Assessment Case Study
This brief highlights the findings of a program quality assessment from a collaboration between the National Summer Learning Association (NSLA) and Spring Forward, a nonprofit based in Rock Island, Illinois, that provides educational and enrichment opportunities at no cost to enhance the lives of families in the community. NSLA encourages organizations to use these findings […]
Community Learning Hubs: Municipal Leadership to Support Education Requires Collective Action
The coronavirus pandemic has impacted virtually every facet of American life. Since March 2020, cities, towns, and villages nationwide have permanently lost 110,000 small businesses, more than 6 million people have been diagnosed with COVID-19, 47 percent of residents are unemployed, and millions of children and youth have not had in-person instruction since schools closed. […]
SEL+OST = Perfect Together: A Conference Report
Afterschool, summer, and other out-of-school-time programs can be ideal settings for children to learn and build social and emotional well-being—when skilled and trusted adults are there to guide them, according to this conference report. Social and emotional skills—the capacity to work productively with a group, manage feelings well, resolve conflicts satisfactorily, and an array of […]
Summer Learning: A Bridge to Student Success and America’s Recovery, a COVID-19 PLAYBOOK
According to the RAND Corporation and Wallace Foundation report, Investing in Successful Summer Programs, summertime can be used to support an array of goals for children and youth, including academic enrichment, physical and mental health, social-emotional well-being, and the development of interests. The only way we’re truly going to make critical summer learning and enrichment […]
Navigating COVID-19 for Nonprofits: From Financial Triage to Scenario Planning
Recently, more than 1,000 of people attended a webinar hosted by The Wallace Foundation with Fiscal Management Associates (FMA): Navigating COVID-19 for Nonprofits: From Financial Triage to Scenario Planning. Both the webinar recording and slides from the presentation are now available on the Wallace website. Many of the questions asked during the Q&A portion involved […]
Greater Atlanta Community Landscape Report
In 2018, the United Way of Greater Atlanta and the Georgia Statewide Afterschool Network (GSAN) commissioned the National Summer Learning Association (NSLA) to conduct a landscape assessment of summer learning programs in the Atlanta region. This report summarizes key data points from that assessment. SUMMER LEARNING IN GREATER ATLANTA Across Greater Atlanta, children and youth […]
Summer—A Time for Learning: Five Lessons From School Districts and Their Partners About Running Successful Programs
For more than a century, researchers have known that students lose ground over the summer. Yet insights about solutions for the loss have been slower to emerge. That is beginning to change, owing in part to The Wallace Foundation’s $60 million National Summer Learning Project. Launched in 2011, it included five urban districts and their […]