Classes
Grades 3-6
We teach the basics of critical thinking in a way that younger students can grasp through easy-to-understand explanations, diagrams and short engaging activities. Learners will have fundamental set of critical thinking skills to both supplement their classes and use to their advantage as they advance in school.
Tools for Thinking
Grades 7-12
Shoddy thinking is costly!!!!
The ability to reason well is important in everyday life. Learn specific strategies to interpret, analyze and evaluate ideas and arguments that work in any class.
Use these strategies to frame your thinking as you read unfamiliar, difficult or electronic materials. Improve your clarity and your ability to focus, organize, categorize, process and retrieve information.
Ready, Set, Accelerate.. Your Learning
Grades 5-8 & Grades 9-12
One way to become a better student is to grit your teeth and try harder. Another way is to use proven and easily learned methods from Accelerated Learning and Brain Research to gain the meta-skills to integrate and synthesize new learning. You will learn to identify and use your own unique way of learning, unleashing the power of your whole brain!
Critical Thinking for Reading
Grades 4-6 & Grades 7-12
Individualized coaching on time-tested and innovative practices that will help you become more cognitively engaged as you gather, organize and make sense of information in new and more personally meaningful ways. Build skills such as recognizing organization, adjusting reading rate, reading graphic aids and increasing vocabulary.
Present Yourself!
Middle and High School
Public speaking is often reported as the #1 fear in America. In today's world, effective communication is a crucial skill. We will coach you using valuable, easy to implement activities for every facet of the presentation process from planning to delivery, so you get a head start on mastering this important skill early!
Painless Writing
Grades 3-5
Join us on a reading and writing adventure! You will learn different methods of writing as you discover for yourself the way that works best for you. You will also learn how to revise and edit, how to make good word choices and churn out writing treasures that will thrill your readers and exceed academic requirements!
Strategies and Activities for Improving Study Skills in Content Areas
Grades 8-12
Do you read material over and over trying to memorize important information? Although this technique may get you passing grades, it is inefficient.
Learn a multitude of specialized, classroom-tested study skills to help you more efficiently read and remember material specifically in the four content areas of literature, social studies, science and mathematics.
Test Smart Strategies
Grades 5-12
Individualized coaching to reinforce learners' skills in taking a wide variety of standardized and teacher-made tests in the areas of reading, writing and language.
SAT....OMG™
Individual and group coaching for the Verbal and Math SAT. Intensive preparation and coaching in
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Critical Reading
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Writing and Grammar
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Sentence Completion
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Vocabulary
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Essay Writing
