“Six Principles for Summer Learning and Beyond,” from the Center on Reinventing Public Education, provides some guidance on implementing enrichment programs over the next several months:

Tie summer plans to long-term recovery goals: Building cohesion between summer and school-year programs promotes consistency and supports interventions that accelerate recovery.
Maximize summer learning time: Administrators must ease students back into rigorous multi-hour academic days while providing opportunities for joy, play and other social-emotional skill development. Educators should combine remote learning, in-person tutoring, summer enrichment activities, and relationship building.
Prioritize attendance strategies in relationships and responsiveness: Leaders must communicate early and often, and design programming around student and family needs. To break down attendance barriers, for instance, districts can make home visits and even pay students to enroll in summer programs.
Leverage community expertise: Districts should partner with community organizations and share resources to provide additional learning options.
establish common goals and share resources for rapid recovery throughout this summer.
Recruit, train, and pay high-quality educators: District leaders can work with nonprofits and state agencies to diversify the teacher workforce by creating new employment pathways and restructure licensing programs. Leaders should also consider pay raises to compensate teachers after such a challenging year.
Connect students and families to critical social services: Administrators can leverage summer programs to launch a distributed approach to partnering for
reconnection, re-engagement, and social services—such as screening, triage and ongoing support—that will be in high demand in the fall.

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