If your child qualifies for special education services, you will be a member of your child’s IEP team. You and the rest of the IEP team will attend at least one meeting a year – an IEP meeting – to devise your child’s IEP – or Individual
Read more →Pi Day has always been fun for math lovers. But what if your child has dyscalculia? Is it even reasonable to expect them to get excited about a number, even if it’s pi? The answer is yes, if you celebrate Pi Day in a way that suits
Read more →Do not panic if your child receives a low SAT Score. Stop, breathe and: Remember your child is so much more than an SAT score. Help your child realize they are so much more than an SAT score. Understand that not all colleges require an SAT or
Read more →Learning sight words can be a huge challenge for a child with dyslexia. If you have a child struggling with reading you may have already spent hours looking into sight words, high frequency words, Dolch words or even if sight words are the right way to help your
Read more →Many of us just received report cards and progress reports informing us of our children’s performance in school. How did you feel about them? How did your child react to the results? If the grades and remarks were less than favorable, now may be a good time
Read more →If your child’s semester math grade was lower than desired, you have most likely engaged a math tutor. Hiring a math tutor will guide your child toward future success, but does little to improve his or her transcript – unless you hire a tutor that works for
Read more →Your child has more private and public alternative school options than ever before. An alternative school has a custom learning environment unencumbered by the traditional classroom model. Alternative schools may be publicly funded charter school or private schools. They range in size from large K-12 schools to
Read more →A few years ago I decided to change how I spent New Year’s Eve. Rather than going out, I decided to bring my focus in on my children, on my family, and on myself. So began a new tradition in our home: The Vision Board. Each of
Read more →Students and parents look forward to enjoying some downtime during the long holiday break. However, along with this opportunity to relax, comes a disruption in academic routine. For some children the lack of a school routine over the holiday break makes it difficult to get back in
Read more →Yeah for my son’s elementary school librarian! My son came home excited about the Flappy Bird game he coded during library time. My junior high son wanted to see it and then for the next hour the two of them coded a Star Wars game we all
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