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School Students  \nby Danette Parsley and John Ristvey  \nThough school is out for the summer, ninth- and tenthgrade students at Union Intermediate High School are burning off energy playing a game of tag on the soccer field. But that’s not all they’re doing. They’re also synthesizing and applying key chemistry concepts they’ve just learned related to the conditions of the early solar system. They are acting out concepts including the fundamentals of matter—atoms, ions, and isotopes—while deepening their understanding of how the solar nebula transformed into our present solar system about 4.6 billion years ago.  \nThese students are engaged in Cosmic Chemistry—a two-week summer learning program focused on chemistry with an astronomical twist. Why do districts, including Union Public Schools in Tulsa, Oklahoma, choose to implement summer programs that, like Cosmic Chemistry, address science concepts? Some districts use summertime to help reinforce or remediate learning from  \nthe previous year. Others, like Union, hope to accelerate future learning by providing young people with engaging, high-quality learning that builds a foundation of essential knowledge and skills for next year’s science content. Cosmic Chemistry engages ninth and tenth graders to prepare them to take chemistry in school the following year. This proactive approach to summer learning provides rigorous, relevant science experiences to help the students who need it most before they fall behind. Cosmic Chemistry was developed by educators at McREL  \nDANETTE PARSLEy, Ed. D., is chief program officer and director of the Center for Strengthening Education Systems at Education Northwest. Parsley has extensive experience providing technical assistance at the local, state, and regional levels in many areas of systemic school and district improvement, including afterschool teaching and learning practices. She recently served as co-principal investigator for two federally funded projects to design and evaluate academically oriented afterschool and summer learning programs for high school students.  \nJOHN RISTvEy, M.S., is director of the Center for Learning Innovation at McREL International, formerly Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning. He oversees direction and planning for the center, including projects related to experiential learning in and out of school, STEM curriculum, public engagement, early childhood education, and curriculum pathways.  \nInternational and Education Northwest. Our process of designing, implementing, and evaluating Cosmic Chemistry offers lessons that may be useful to designers of other academically oriented out-of-school time (OST) programs.  \npanel recommended more rigorous research. Even so, the recommendations reflect the current theory and practice of designing and implementing academically oriented OST programs.  \nResearch-Based Recommendations on Designing OST Programs  \nOver the last decade, the number of schools, districts, and communitybased organizations implementing academically oriented OST programs like Cosmic Chemistry has increased dramatically (Stonehill et al., 2009). To respond to these programs’ need for research-based guidance, the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) convened an expert panel to review existing research and generate recommendations for designing,  \nwhen these researchers interviewed recent highschool dropouts, they found that a majority reported making C grades or better at the time they quit school. These students in the middle of the academic spectrum reported that they felt ignored, invisible, and forgotten.  \nProgram Description  \nUsing the IES recommendations, we led the project team that designed a two-week summer learning experience based on NASA educational materials originally developed for use during the school day. 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