Parent Education Seminars

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.

This seminar focuses on ACT study skills and provides strategies for how to best prepare for the standardized test. Parents will learn: 

     - Recent changes made to the ACT 

     - How to to prepare your child for the test

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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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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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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