Nancy Gannon
Nancy Gannon (ngannon@fhi360.org) has 30 years of experience as a teacher, coach, principal, and district administrator. As Senior Advisor of Teaching and Learning for US Education at FHI 360, she leads the District Summer Learning Network (DSLN) funded by the Wallace Foundation, where, in partnership with her team, she has designed and implemented a strategy that will reshape summer learning for over 2.2 million students. In addition to DSLN, she directs a range of projects designed to build state and school districts’ leadership capacity to transform learning environments and ensure educational equity and whole child development are essential parts of academic programming.
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Learning network shifts districts’ approach to summer programs
Even in the best of times, significant education problems are rarely fixed with easy solutions, and 2021 was not the best of times. The COVID-19 Omicron variant was causing a new wave of infections and, because of school and life disruptions, students were struggling with learning loss and a decline […] -
Reimagine summer to accelerate learning
Most people associate summer with activities that have nothing to do with school, or, if they do, summer school comes to mind — the remediation variety. Historically, summer school is for struggling students who need to relearn and firm up skills from prior years or for those required to retake […]
