Texas Rangers Baseball Foundation Announces Summer Learning Loss Prevention Initiative
The Texas Rangers Baseball Foundation has announced the launch of its new baseball themed educational course,Summer Slugger.
The interactive course, a partnership with Major League Baseball and digital learning innovator EVERFI, is aimed at preventing students from losing critical math and literacy skills during the summer months. The program is available for elementary schools at no cost.
Each summer, students lose critical math and literacy skills, widening the achievement gap and requiring substantial remediation at the start of each year. Summer Slugger is an online course developed to prevent this "summer slide."
"The Texas Rangers are proud to partner with MLB and EVERFI to bring a great educational tool to the students of North Texas. Supporting youth education is one of the Foundation's focuses and the Summer Sluggers program will have the ability to impact thousands of young people," Neil Leibman, Texas Rangers Baseball Foundation Board Chairman.
Summer Slugger, targeted at 4th to 5th graders, unlocks activities and offers rewards for progress and consistency along the way. Students engage with content that reinforces key foundational and procedural skills while enjoying the freedom and motivation of a baseball themed learning experience.
Summer Slugger consists of 36 interactive games, each about 10 minutes in length, which cover units of measure; place value; arithmetic; geometry; spelling; phonemic awareness; vocabulary and comprehension.
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