by Lisa Bigney | May 7, 2025 | academic slide, Academic support tutor, ADHD, anxiety, anxiety, back to school, Better grades, Blog, brain drain, difficulty with math, dyslexia, dyslexia learning center, dyslexia tutoring programs, Education, Elementary school, ESY, Extended School Year, fifth grade, first grade, For Parents, For Students, fourth grade, Grades, Grades, Learning at home, learning difficulties/differences, learning loss, Math, math difficulties, math help, math skills, math tutor, math tutoring, math tutors, orton gillingham, Orton-Gillingham Tutors, Parents, Programs, Reading & Writing, Reading & Writing, Reading Difficulties, Reading Difficulties, Reading skills, reading tutors, reluctant readers, Rhode Island Tutors, RITES, RITES Programs, Science of Reading, second grade, Structured Literacy, struggling, struggling readers, summer, Summer academics, Summer Brain Drain, Summer Programs, Summer Programs RI, summer reading, summer slide, summer writing, third grade, trouble with math, Tutoring, Writing skills
Summer break is a time for relaxation, vacations, and fun. However, for many students, it also leads to what educators call the “summer slide”—a significant learning loss that occurs when academic skills are not practiced during the break. Research...
by Halley Lavenstein | Nov 19, 2024 | academic slide, Academic support tutor, Achievements, Education, Elementary school, Equity in Education, For College and Adults, For Parents, For Students, For Teachers, Grades, learning difficulties/differences, learning loss, Math, Reading, Reading & Writing, Reading skills, regression, Rhode Island Tutors, RITES, RITES Programs, Science of Reading, Structured Literacy, struggling readers, Test Preparation, Uncategorized, Writing skills
Our Students Aren’t Learning New test data for RI students is out and it isn’t good. RICAS scores for literacy and math are troubling, staying flat for math and dipping below last year’s results for literacy. According to The Providence Journal (1), only 30.8% of...
by aspire | Oct 23, 2023 | academic slide, Donations, Education, equity, Financial Aid, Financial Assistance, Giving, Help, learning loss, Reading, struggling, struggling readers, Uncategorized
Meet Mya This earnest-looking young lady with the big, soulful eyes is Mya. We met her back in 2020. She attends a local parochial school, but she is persistently behind her peers academically. Her mom found RITES, learned that we have a financial assistance program,...
by aspire | Oct 7, 2021 | academic slide, anxiety, anxiety, back to school, communication, coping, Covid-19, Education, Help, help for home, help with school, learning difficulties/differences, learning loss, managing, Parents, regression, RITES, School stress, struggling, summer slide, Uncategorized
Part 3: Keep talking Keep Talking: You and Your Child Your child may go through different phases of reaction to managing in-person school with COVID concerns. It is a fluid process for us all. The added stress of maintaining vigilance with protocols, while trying to...
by aspire | Oct 4, 2021 | academic slide, anxiety, anxiety, coping, Covid-19, Education, Help, help for home, help with school, learning difficulties/differences, learning loss, managing, Parents, regression, RITES, School stress, struggling, summer slide, Uncategorized
Part 2: Relax yourself! Preparing for (and dealing with) the academic slide of learning loss and having fallen behind due to the pandemic It is easy in these difficult times to feel overwhelmed and anxious. If you have school-aged children, those feelings can be...
by aspire | Oct 1, 2021 | anxiety, anxiety, coping, Covid-19, distance learning, Education, Help, help for home, help with school, learning difficulties/differences, learning loss, managing, Parents, regression, RITES, School stress, struggling, summer slide, Uncategorized
Now that kids are back to school, returning to in-person classrooms, how do we navigate this “new normal” with them to assure their success? We have all had to make a huge number of adjustments over the last year and a half of the COVID-19 pandemic. While the weight...
