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What is the Summer Slide?

With COVID-19 disrupting normal teaching, it is all the more important to prevent the loss of integral academic learning before students head back to school in the fall. Some tips include encouraging the student in your life to teach you something, turn everyday occurrences into opportunities to practice math, critical thinking, or writing skills, and to encourage reading (while many libraries are closed, most have digital books available for free!).

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By Marie Hartwell-Walker, Ed.D.