Summer engagement

25 May, 2022

How to Strike the Right Balance Between Education & Edutainment During Summer Break

2022-05-25T07:47:59-05:00Wednesday, May 25, 2022|Education Info, Learning Strategies, Parents, Summer Strategies|

School is out for the summer and with it, your family has more free time to spend on things they enjoy. The question is, how do you make sure your children continue to learn over the break: through education or edutainment? This article will compare edutainment to traditional methods of learning like summer school and [...]

11 Jan, 2022

The Summer Slide: What’s True and What’s Not

2022-01-10T10:23:48-06:00Tuesday, January 11, 2022|Education Info, Parents, Summer Strategies|

Learning loss has been a hot topic over the past couple of years. Parents have tried to determine what their students might have lost as a direct result of COVID-19. As a result, more parents are aware of the potential for a "summer slide". This is when students lose some of the learning they have [...]

10 May, 2021

What’s Your Plan to Avoid the Summer Slide?

2021-05-10T07:06:43-05:00Monday, May 10, 2021|Education Info, Summer Strategies|

Every year, many students suffer from the "summer slide", or learning loss over the summer months, when they aren't in school and aren't engaging in the activities they need to help keep their minds sharp. On average, students lose about a month's worth of school year learning over the course of the summer, and they [...]

2 Aug, 2017

Devices Down, Brains On

2017-08-02T23:46:40-05:00Wednesday, August 2, 2017|Education Info, Parents, Summer Strategies, Tenney Subscribers|

By this point in summer, the novelty of long, warm days in the sun has long since worn off for your teenager. If left to their own devices, they'd spend all day playing on a device: scrolling through memes on their phones, visiting social media sites, playing video games, and more. You need strategies that [...]

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