FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FROM THE NATIONAL SUMMER LEARNING ASSOCIATION!
The National Summer Learning Association's (NSLA) new Summer Learning Day Events Calendar is live, so register your event or program today!
National Summer Learning Day is a national advocacy day aimed at elevating the importance of keeping kids learning, safe and healthy every summer, ensuring they're on track to succeed in the school year ahead.
Your participation sends a powerful message across the nation that summers matter and offers an opportunity to showcase how summers can change the lives of young people. Register your summer learning event or program to help families and media in your community find you!
Once your event or program has been approved, make sure you share it on social media using #KeepKidsLearning!
Throughout the next few weeks, NSLA will release new resources and tip sheets to help make this the best summer yet for young people in your community! In fact, check out these new resources below:
•Ten Tips for Celebrating Summer Learning Day
•Learning Heroes "Summer Stride" Comic Strip (En Español)
•Resource for Elected Officials
Visit
www.summerlearning.org/SummerLearningDay and make a big splash this summer!
Avoid Summer Learning Loss!
93% of teachers agree that students will be more successful if they maintain some form of learning during the summer. Carson-Dellosa Publishing, Books-A-Million and Barnes & Noble wants to help make this happen.
Summer Bridge workbooks help kids stay mentally and physically active all summer long. With monthly goal setting, a summer reading list, hands-on projects and outdoor learning, kids will be moving, thinking, learning and doing while preparing for the next school year.
Encourage your families to visit Books-A-Million or Barnes & Noble online or go to the local bookstore and start the summer off right with the Summer Bridge series!
Countdown to Summer!
Webinar Recording
NSLA and NPR's Lead Education Blogger, Anya Kamenetz recently hosted Countdown to Summer!, a live conversation with leading experts in education including:
•Matthew Boulay, Ph.D.; Author and Founder of the National Summer Learning Association
•Laura Huerta Migus; Executive Director at the Association of Children's Museums
•Elizabeth McChesney; Director of Children's Services at Chicago Public Library
The live web event offered bloggers valuable insights on summer learning loss and tips for parents to help their kids beat the summer brain drain.
Missed the event? Here's the video recording HERE!:
https://zoom.us/…/vg1dfT5PYbQ75J1IcN8y3T... ***************************
Experts speak up for Community Learning Centers on Capitol Hill
By Erik Peterson
More than 70 attendees including dozens of staff representing senators and representatives from across the U.S. packed a briefing room in the Russell Senate Office Building last Friday, April 21, to hear from a panel of Community Learning Center providers. Local afterschool and summer learning programs leverage the federal 21st Century Community Learning Centers initiative to provide quality learning experiences to young people when school is out. Representing Community Learning Center programs from urban, suburban, and rural locations across the country, the speakers spoke to the evidence that their programs achieve a wide range of meaningful outcomes for the 1.6 million children that participate in Community Learning Centers each year.
The briefing was organized by the Afterschool Alliance and the Senate Afterschool Caucus, chaired by Senators Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Franken (D-Minn.), along with a host of afterschool stakeholders: After-School All-Stars, American Camps Association, Boys and Girls Clubs of America, Save the Children, Communities in Schools, Every Hour Counts, National AfterSchool Association, National League of Cities, National Summer Learning Association and the YMCA of the USA.
Please read the full article HERE!:
http://www.afterschoolalliance.org/…/Con...
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