LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – Your kids probably haven’t thought about school for a while. But that could lead to holiday learning loss.
Local tutor, Samiya Cogmon of Horizon Star Tutoring, mentioned a few ways you can prevent a slide in your students’ grades.
“When kids are not practicing you know those math facts or reading a book, they get back to school and they’re a little bit lost,” Cogmon said.
Cogmon says she has seen this before.
Break after break, Cogmon says if students don’t use it they lose it, and that setback can affect the whole class when they come back from winter break.
But, she says it doesn’t take much to stay on track.
“The teacher is kind of re-teaching a lot of the same stuff,” Cogmon said. “So it’s really important to keep up those things. Even if it’s say 10 minutes a day, 15 minutes a day, something short just to keep their brains going so when they get back it’s not gone.”
CCSD students will have 16 days away from school during winter break.
“You can get a good amount behind,” Cogmon said. “If you’re doing really well and it was kind of picking up that momentum, you can take those two weeks off and it doesn’t really affect you much versus a kid who’s already really struggling. Those two weeks out of school could have a big effect on them, especially the younger kids.”
Nevada’s graduation rate increased for the class of 2024, but not for Clark County.
Cogmon says preventing holiday learning loss could be key to turning things around.
“I don’t really see that changing until we really are able to kind of give those kids a really those things that they’re needing because we just have a lot of gaps in general with kids not being really prepared for high school and you know kids not being prepared for middle school, being prepared for high school, then in turn prepared for college,” Cogmon said.
The tutor adds that math and reading skills are the first to go over the holiday break. But just a few minutes a day going over old math problems and reading new books can help students get ready for class to start again on Monday, January 6th.
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