Summer Programs
This 30-Day Summer Challenge flyer includes creative ideas designed to keep students engaged in their learning. With 30 days’ worth of fun activities, facts, and resources, learners are bound to learn something new each day and make the most out of summer break.
Practical tools and resources for planning summer learning programs
A high-quality summer program is shaped by the local community and the students and families it serves. There is not a singular pathway or simple formula to follow when creating a summer program; instead, there are many evidence-based elements that should be considered within a local context and infused into programming to ensure quality and student success.
The Summer Learning Toolkit is a companion document to the Summer Learning Best Practice Guide. The aim of this resource is to bring forward the Key Elements of Quality Summer Programming from the Best Practice Guide in the form of easy, accessible and practical tools to support the planning of robust summer programs.
The National Summer Learning Association has produced a program toolkit to help summer programs celebrate National Summer Learning Week.
NSLA has gathered these resources to assist programs in shaping and strengthening their summer programs. Resources include archived webinars, tip sheets for providers and parents and caregivers, and toolkits.
The Wallace Foundation’s Summer Learning Toolkit features evidence-based tools and guidance for delivering effective programs.
During the summer, low-income students lose ground compared to their wealthier peers. But summer can also be a time to help level the playing field through high-quality, summer learning programs that research shows produce measurable benefits in math, reading and social and emotional learning.
With more than 50, evidence-based tools and resources—drawn from the work of five urban school districts and their partners, and aligned with research from RAND—the Summer Learning Toolkit helps educators deliver programs that make a real difference.
KID smART, a creative youth development education-based nonprofit organization, has created a video series for K-8th grade students to continue engaging in the arts. Currently, they have over 64 videos that are free to the public on their YouTube channel.
The BCYF SuperTeens Program is a six week leadership program for 13 and 14 year olds who are interested in developing new skills, making new friends, and having a fun summer. This program is specifically designed to meet the needs of young adults who are too old for a traditional summer camp experience, but are not yet old enough to secure a summer job.
After School Matters provides teens the opportunity to explore their passions and develop their talents through world-class after school and summer programs across Chicago.
Summer Camp Hub is a useful resource to find the best summer camp suited for you.
K12 Inc. Summer Camp offers tuition-free, career-oriented summer courses in coding, video game design and programming, business and marketing, health care, and more—some of which will even earn students high school credit.
NIHF’s Top 10 STEM Activity Guide offers hands-on, indoor and outdoor fun for elementary and middle school students.
The Andy Roddick Foundation invites you to ARF Summer at Home — a free, eight-week virtual summer camp for students in Kindergarten to 5th grade. Through engaging video lessons, ARF Summer at Home offers hands-on learning activities as we Explore Our World. ARF Summer At Home gives administrators, teachers and families what they need to provide students with a self-paced learning experience.
This summer, flex your brain with CK-12’s math and science FlexLets™, designed to make sure that you have your bases covered before the next school year begins!