Parent Education Seminars

Seminar 1:
Strategies for Managing Stress & Anxiety

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 

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?

 
Strategies to Help Prepare Your Child for Exams

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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How to Strengthen Reading Skills Over the Summer

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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How to Strengthen Math Skills Over the Summer

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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