Peterson’s crew. In the back row to teacher Maeve Peterson’s left: Brody Ellinghuysen, Ronnie Lemon, Lamel Lillard, Cleo Lohnes, Olivia Poulin, Emily Swartling, Jordyn Werner and Alex Zierfus. Below them are the Jefferson kids.
Goal: Keeping the learning curve lit
WINONA, Minn. – Scholars who study education have known for years about “summer slide”—the period when kids forget a lot of wha what they just learned the year before. Now in Winona somebody’s doing something about it. It’s students in a high school class called AVID — short for Advancement Via Individual Determination. They are working with grade-schoolers at Jefferson School to combat the summer knowledge loss. The teacher: Maeve Peterson of the English faculty.. Kits have been created with resources to learn independently at home over the long hot, lazy days of summer. Funding for the project is mostly from the Foundation for WAPS and the Earl Graves Foundation.
“Summer slide”
A 2020 Brown University study foond students lose 17% to 34% of their knowledge from the previous school year during summer break.