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The impact of summer slide learning loss, strategies to retain knowledge, and how to engage in fun activities to bridge the knowledge gap.

As the period of the pandemic lockdown appears more fully in the rearview mirror for many, educators are faced with yet another unprecedented equation:

Summer Slide + COVID Slide = ???

Will these intertwining elements associated with learning loss create more of a challenge for K-12 students and educators in the upcoming school year?

With most schools now open to in-person teaching, the academic fall-out resulting from over 12 months of shuttered schools is now apparent. It’s been a difficult year for students. Low test scores, especially in math and literacy, have highlighted how the overnight shift to 100% remote learning left many students across the nation without the support

Last year, the pandemic disrupted education on a global scale, with shuttered schools impacting more than 1.6 billion students.  In the U.S., all 50 states closed schools to in-person teaching for at least part of the academic year as state governments struggled to implement a nationwide switch to remote learning that no one could have