The Alliance and Y-USA are beginning the process of registering Massachusetts Y's for the Summer Learning Loss Pilot for summer 2015. 

This is our second year of working on a Summer Learning Loss pilot with Y-USA. We are excited to continue this partnership as this pilot will become the model for other state Alliances' Summer Learning Loss work throughout the country.

Overview of Pilot

To participate in this summer long (6 week) pilot, sites will use a portion of your Youth At Risk funds to hire a certified teacher per grade, assign a Y staff site director, teach children from 2.5 hours a day, 4 days a week in the Four Block Model at a camp/summer site with a field trip on Fridays. Sites will use the STAR pre and post assessments to measure their students learning during summer. This pilot does not include a specific lesson plan to teach from but does include suggestions and other materials to assist teachers and site directors. 

New to the pilot this year is that we will be offering monthly check in calls and webinars for site directors (and hopefully teachers, schedules permitting) beginning in early March. We are also expanding the grade levels that this pilot can be offered to, last year the pilot was only offered to rising third graders, this year it can be offered to rising first, second, and third graders.

To Participate: