Stopping the Summer Slide:The Role That Networks and Policymakers Can Play in Reducing Summer Learning Loss

Join us for a Webinar on October 11th, from 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM EDT

Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at: 
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Please join The Wallace Foundation for a Webinar and discussion on the significance of summer learning loss suffered by low-income students and the strategies that cities and states are using to address this.

Participants will hear about a comprehensive new study from the RAND Corporation, Making Summer Count: How Summer Programs Can Boost Children's Learning. This report examines student summer learning loss and gain, as well as the characteristics of effective summer programs and their costs. It also gives recommendations on how school districts can overcome barriers to establishing successful programs. The study is available without charge on www.wallacefoundation.org or www.rand.org.

Participants will also hear about summer learning initiatives in Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island that address summer learning loss and the role that statewide after-school networks and policymakers can play in building better summer learning experiences for children.

The Wallace Foundation will also detail a major new phase of its $50-million summer learning initiative, as it launches a six-city effort to test whether high-quality summer learning programs can produce lasting academic gains for low-income students.

Speakers will include:
Dara Rose, Senior Program Officer, 
The Wallace Foundation

Jennifer Sloan McCombs, Senior Policy Researcher and lead author of the report 
RAND

Katie Magrane, Executive Director 
Massachusetts Afterschool Partnership

Chris Smith, Executive Director 
Boston After School and Beyond

Sanjiv Rao, Executive Director 
New York State Afterschool Network

Caterina Leone-Mannino, Director of Expanded Learning and Intervention 
Rochester City School District

Adam Greenman, Executive Director 
Rhode Island Afterschool Plus Alliance

Patrick Duhon, Director of Expanded Learning, 
Providence Public Schools

Title: Stopping the Summer Slide: The Role that Networks and Policymakers Can Play in Reducing Summer Learning Loss 
Date: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM EDT

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

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PC-based attendees 
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Macintosh®-based attendees 
Required: Mac OS® X 10.5 or newer