
Carraway Center
for Teaching & Learning
Parent Education Seminars
Seminar 1:
Strategies for Managing Stress & Anxiety
Thursday, April 24, 2025
11:00 - 12:30
Join us to learn practical strategies for managing stress and anxiety in your life and in your child's life. This seminar focuses on 25 research-based practices that help reduce immediate anxiety and long-term stress. Strategies for test-taking anxiety will also be addressed.

Seminar 2:
ACT or SAT? How to Best Prepare
Friday, May 2, 2025
11:00 - 12:30
This seminar focuses on the difference between the ACT and SAT and provides strategies for how to best prepare for these standardized tests. Parents will learn:
- The differences between the ACT and SAT
- Recent changes in the ACT & SAT
- Recommendations for which test to choose for your child
- What are the different ways to prep for these tests?
- How do I know what type of preparation is best for my child?

Seminar 3:
Strategies to Help Prepare Your Child for Exams
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
11:00 - 12:30
This seminar is filled with recommendations, tips, and research on what you can do as a parent to help your child prepare well for his or her exams. We will discuss strategies for:
- When should my child begin studying for exams?
- How do I help him find and organize all of her jumbled papers?
- How much hovering do I need to do or should I be hands-off?
- Should we stop sports and social activities during exams?
- Should she study in a group?
- Do peppermints really help you score higher on a test?
- I feel like my child doesn't listen to me at all and doesn't want to hear any strategies from me? Any suggestions for that?
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Seminar 4:
How to Strengthen Reading Skills Over the Summer
Monday, May 12, 2025
9:00-10:30
Attend this seminar to learn practical ways to help improve your child's reading abilities over the summer. Strategies will be included for:
- Improving decoding skills (sounding out words)
- Increasing fluency & words read correctly per minute
- Building weak vocabulary
- Improving comprehension
- Getting your child to read
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Seminar 5:
How to Strengthen Math Skills Over the Summer
Monday, May 19, 2025
8:30-10:00
Attend this seminar to learn practical ways to help improve your child's mathematical abilities over the summer. Strategies will be included for:
- Reviewing concepts from the current school year
- Practice retrieval for math facts and common formulas
- Improving fact fluency
- Being ready for next year
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