The first episode focuses on the evidence base for summer learning and what we’ve learned about high-quality programming over the years. Part 1 focuses on the opportunities and risks associated with the summer months and what makes summer learning programs effective.

A Hot Time for Summer Learning: Episode 1: What We’ve Learned about Summer Learning (Part 1)

The first episode focuses on the evidence base for summer learning and what we’ve learned about high-quality programming over the years. Part 2 focuses on communitywide approaches to summer learning and how summer learning can be an essential component of pandemic learning recovery.

A Hot Time for Summer Learning: Episode 1: What We’ve Learned about Summer Learning (Part 2)

The second episode of A Hot Time for Summer Learning focuses on the role that partnerships and intermediary organizations play in supporting afterschool and summer learning opportunities for young people.

A Hot Time for Summer Learning: Episode 2:  The Power of Summer Learning Partnerships

In this episode, Wallace explores a summer learning-focused state network led by the Council of Chief State School Officers and the National Summer Learning Association.

A Hot Time for Summer Learning Episode 3: Empowering States to Leverage Summer Learning

. In this episode of Beyond the Classroom, student researchers and OST practitioners discuss some of the most common barriers to participation in OST programs, from a lack of transportation to the inability to afford program fees, and what can be done to address them.

Beyond the Classroom Podcast: Episode 1:  Making Out-of-School-Time Programs More Accessible

In this episode of Beyond the Classroom, student and adult researchers explore various strategies for building a sense of belonging and inclusion in OST spaces, beginning with centering the youth voice in the program’s design.

Beyond the Classroom Podcast: Episode 2: Creating Programs Where Everyone Belongs

In this episode of Beyond the Classroom, researchers and practitioners discuss strategies for addressing these challenges in order to more effectively recruit and retain skilled youth workers.

Beyond the Classroom Podcast: Episode 3: Recruiting and Retaining Out-of-School Time Staff

In the fourth episode of A Hot Time for Summer Learning, Wallace examines how Texas districts are finding ways to sustain high-quality and engaging summer learning programs in the face of funding changes. School district leaders from Houston and the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex discuss the significance of community outreach and support in promoting the need for and benefits of summer learning programs. They share how heightened public awareness and program engagement have led to an increased understanding of summer learning’s value, particularly among teachers, students and families who experienced the program and are eager to preserve it.

A Hot Time for Summer Learning Episode 4: Lessons from the Lone Star State

How two musicians are using the Wallace-commissioned Connected Arts Learning Framework to engage young people and help them discover identities and communities.

Connected Arts, Creative Kids, Thriving Communities

In the fifth episode of A Hot Time for Summer Learning, Wallace spotlights how, Alabama’s Tuscaloosa City Schools and New Jersey’s Newark Public Schools have completely re-imagined their summer learning programs, shifting from traditional summer school models to engaging, evidence-based experiences that help students learn and build new interests and skills.

A Hot Time for Summer Learning Episode 5: Rethinking Summer Learning

The Wallace Foundation is a national philanthropy that seeks to improve learning and enrichment for disadvantaged children and foster the vitality of the arts for everyone.