Thinking ahead

National Summer School Initiative 2025

We're all coming together this summer. Districts. Charters. Community organizations.

Vibrant, live instruction every day. Connection. Fun. And extraordinary academic growth.

Accelerated learning

Deliver live, engaging, grade-level instruction for all students this summer in ELA and math.

Discourse-based, culturally responsive curriculum. Your teachers. Our expert mentors. Working together to conquer learning losses.

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Transformative teacher training

"Best-designed summer program I have taught thus far."

For many partners, NSSI serves as an extension of their team. With high quality curriculum, best-in-class professional learning, and meticulous operational support, NSSI helps its partners to plan, launch, manage, and evaluate a rigorous summer academic program at scale.

Each year, this gets better and better. Thank you for all the time and effort you put into helping us launch and run successful summer programs with great opportunities for teacher growth and great student outcomes.

—Laurie Wolfe, Chief Academic Officer, Gem Prep

Program-wide, teachers and leaders appreciated NSSI’s ease-of-use. Respondents to our end-of-session surveys gave the statement “I am happy that I taught/led summer school in partnership with NSSI” an average rating of 4.5 out of 5 possible points.

Learn more about why partners choose NSSI to eliminate the complexity and capacity challenges of scaling high quality summer academic programming.

Build stronger teachers

Welcome to an entirely new approach to improving instruction.

Together with their same-grade peers nationally, teachers work in sustained partnership with award-winning mentors. Watch their mentor’s moves. Make them their own. See their students soar.

“It was not like a normal summer school at all.”

Harvard and University of Virginia scholars found that students in NSSI last summer improved their academic skills and gained confidence.

I honestly felt like all of my kids, they improved. Pretty much across the board they all said, I read differently now. And I pay attention to what I read. And I'm going to be thinking about what I read and what it means for my life.

from a summer 2020 ELA partner teacher

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Interested in partnering with us this summer?

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