Hi Reader,

You made it to May.

The backpack is lighter. The homework battles are winding down.

And somewhere underneath all of that — there's a feeling you've been trying not to name.

Dread.

Not September dread. The kind that starts now — the moment you realize summer is coming and everything your child worked so hard for is about to sit untouched for ten weeks.

If that landed somewhere specific in your chest, this is for you.

Here's the thing I've watched play out in 25 years of Title I classrooms:

Your child isn't going to lose what they learned. They're going to lose access to it.

Those are two completely different problems. And they need two completely different solutions.

The neural pathways your child built this year? Still there. What fades over summer is the daily practice of retrieving them — activating those pathways quickly, automatically, under pressure. For a child with ADHD or dyslexia, that retrieval gap can feel catastrophic by September — even when real learning happened all year.

But here's what most families are never told: children with ADHD and dyslexia often make their biggest gains over summer. Not despite the break from school. Because of it.

Less pressure. Less comparison. Less correction. The brain finally gets quiet enough to consolidate what it learned.

I wrote the whole thing out — what the research actually says, what summer slide does and doesn't mean for your family, and exactly what 10–20 minutes a day can look like without replicating school at home.

👉 Read it here: Summer Slide With ADHD and Dyslexia — Your Child Isn't Losing Skills. Here's What's Really Happening. https://www.learninginadistractedworld.com/post/summer-slide-with-adhd-and-dyslexia-your-child-isn-t-losing-skills-here-s-what-s-really-happening​

And if you want to head into summer with a real plan — not anxiety — I'm teaching it live this June.

Destination Success Boot Camp is free. June 9–13. Five days. Built specifically for families like yours.

👉 Save your spot → https://metacognitively-teaching.kit.com/822000a1da​

You've been carrying this all year. You deserve more than reassurance. You deserve a real answer.

— Kelly

Waitlist is open now — free to join, no commitment.

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See you in the video,

Kelly

National Board Certified Teacher · Reading Specialist · Learning in a Distracted World

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