Key Topics for Summer Learning

Find resources to help you plan, implement, and support high quality summer learning programs and stop summer slide.

Featured Resources

Our most popular reports, tools, stories, and videos for every topic.

Wallace Foundation Releases Summer Learning Recruitment Guide

May 16, 2018/in Featured, Funding and Sustainability, Tools /by Daren Howard

Research shows that students with high attendance in quality summer learning programs gain an advantage in math and reading. But getting kids to sign up for voluntary summer learning programs isn’t easy. In this guide, you’ll learn from five school districts how to launch a summer learning recruitment effort.

Summer Matters Superheroes Unmasked

January 25, 2018/in Featured, Stories /by Ezra Denney

Summer Matters Superhero Award recipients are leaders who put energy and resources into summer learning, not because they have to, but because they are convinced that EVERY child matters and EVERY child can succeed with the right support and foundation.

Summer Learning Loss

Find resources to help you understand and communicate the part summer can play in the achievement gap, the impact of high quality summer learning programs, and more.

Program Quality

Find resources useful for designing, planning and implementing a high quality summer program, including curriculum, evaluation tools, staff development strategies, and more.

Technical Assistance

Find resources to help internal and external technical assistance providers support summer learning programs with training, coaching, consulting, mentoring, facilitation, and brokering resources.

Policy Issues

Find resources to help you advocate for public support for summer learning opportunities and help close the achievement gap

Funding and Sustainability

Find resources to help you fund and support high quality summer learning opportunities through a variety of public funding sources, collaborative partnerships and budget with sustainability in mind.

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