The summer slide isn’t just the bane of fall-semester teachers. Studies suggest that for disadvantaged students, summer learning loss can be the primary contributor to a reading achievement gap that leaves students three years behind by the end of ninth grade.1 That’s the bad news. But the good news is that across Alabama, Summer Adventures in Learning (SAIL) collaborators are combining their talents, resources, and tools to harness the power of summer, using the time to bolster student learning and shrink gaps.
