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Summer Learning Initiative Tools and Webinars from You for Youth – Here you’ll find all the tools you need for developing your Summer Learning Program. Please be sure to visit the corresponding step along the path!
CREATING A PROGRAM TEAM
CONDUCTING YOUR NEEDS ASSESSMENT
WRITING SMART GOALS
DETERMINING LOGISTICS
INTENTIONAL ACTIVITY DESIGN
INTENTIONAL STUDENT RECRUITMENT
CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT
ADDITIONAL TOOLS
These videos include key practices, recommendations, and program models for school district and community-based providers looking for guidance on planning fun, engaging, and collaborative summer learning programs. These are all highlights from PCY’s 2021, 2022, and 2023 Summer Game Plan webinar series.
-Relationships Are Keys to Success
-Short Timelines Planning and Changing Models
-Program Planning, Partnership, and Co-Design
-Summer Staffing Solutions
-Effectively Managing Site Operations
-Program Scheduling
-Daily Operations: Tips and Recommendations
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.
This toolkit is designed to help education authorities, school leaders, and teachers create thoughtful guidance to help their communities realize the potential benefits of incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) in primary and secondary education while understanding and mitigating the potential risks.
With guidance, an education system may realize the potential benefits of AI to improve learning outcomes, support teacher instruction and quality of life, and enhance educational equity. Without guidance, teachers and students can be exposed to privacy violations, inconsistent disciplinary consequences, and counterproductive AI adoption practices.
This is a wonderful collection of 1,000+ free resources to help you teach kindness to your students. Choose from free printable coloring pages, kindness crafts, games, SEL worksheets, kindness math activities, and more.
The School of Kindness offers Lesson Plans and Activities that teach children about the importance of kindness, the science of kindness, and the impact it has on our physical and mental health. They are designed by teachers, for teachers, and support many of the aims and objectives of the new statutory PSHE curriculum for relationships and health education in primary schools.
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.
The Tennessee Afterschool Network shares 15 wonderful ways you can celebrate Lights On Afterschool in your community.
Teachers and educators can use this free self-care tool kit to prioritize themselves. This self-care toolkit includes a stress relief graphic organizer, “When did I last…” tracker, a visualization graphic organizer, though process bullet journal template, top 10 graphic organizer, and a 30 day self-care challenge.
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.
Keep your kids learning (and having a great time) this summer with Camp Wonderopolis, a great free program that incorporates science, music, reading comprehension, and more. Choose from themes including space travel, the Olympics, and city building.