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​Andrew W. Niblock 

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Director of Schoolwide Initiatives

The Greenwich Country Day School

Summer is for Learning

6/11/2018

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Summer slide... Summer melt…
 
Whatever we might name it, there is a widely accepted notion that learning goes backward over the summer months.
 
I don’t buy it.
 
University of Pennsylvania Architect-in-Residence David Hollenberg had this response when asked about the inevitability of the daily learning process,
 
“You can’t help it. It’s almost harder if you didn’t want to keep learning."
 
Learning is what our children do, what we all do. Every day. All the time.
 
Not learning would not just be harder, it might be impossible. Summer learning may look different than the rest of the year, but it is just as relentless.
 
Exploring, reflecting, laughing, reading, singing, storytelling, discovering…These are a few of the sights and sounds of summer learning. We are all hardwired to learn. Our children are professionals.
 
This summer, rather than lamenting the slide, take care to notice, and join in, the joy of the summer learning our children do every day.

Happy Summer, Everyone!

 
“One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by.” 
— Jeannette Walls
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