Stop the Summer Slip

Students risk losing up to 40% of their learning over summer break (Atteberry and McEachin). In 2020 two researched looked at 200 million test scores from 18 million students across all 50 states over an 8 year period (2008-2016).

The take away: The Summer Slip is real, and it can be neutralized with just 15 minutes of reading and math each day. Parents, we don’t have to run a boot camp, but we have the opportunity to keep learning engagement high. Let’s make school as fun and accessible as possible for our children. Let’s do it 15 minutes a day this summer and stop the Summer Slip.

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SHOW NOTES

The Atteberry and McEachin, 2020 study: https://journals.sagepub.com/stoken/default+domain/GBRTK2UCCZCUMP8IB6RN/full

Worth noting: 52% of students repeated the Summer Slip process year after year after year, for five years straight. So students who lose academic progress one year often do so five years in a row. That’s a lot of learning loss, and it makes sense. If school feels hard and I come back deficient in year one, the year is going to feel even harder. So when I get a break the next summer, I’m more likely to want to just step away and give myself a break, which in turn causes a loss of skill, which then makes school feel that much harder the next year, reaffirming my fears that I am just not good at this. https://journals.sagepub.com/stoken/default+domain/GBRTK2UCCZCUMP8IB6RN/full

Books the kids love right now:

Owen: The Mysterious Benedict Society. Two of his all-time favorite series are the National Park Mystery Series and The Green Ember series.
Henry: loves Flying Creatures of the 5th Day (Jeanie Fulbright), Little House on the Prairie, Little Women, and Where the Red Fern grows.
Hadley: Box Car Children series, audio books: The Jesus Storybook Bible, Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, and Fantastic Mr. Fox.

Books to inspire reading: