Current Offerings
Algebra I Review
During Covid, teachers and students struggled with the pacing of Algebra I. As a result, teachers completed as little as 60% of the curriculum. Unfortunately, many concepts covered at the end of Algebra I are necessary to complete Geometry and Algebra II successfully. This 4-week Class is designed to review the advanced concepts more thoroughly to prepare your student for the upcoming school year.
• Solving Equations
• Quadratic Functions
• Exponents
• Polynomials/Factoring
• Radical Expressions
Computation Fundamentals
This 4-week course is designed for students in grades 7-9 who have historically struggled with math. Many of these students struggle with math because they never mastered the fundamentals of mathematical computation. Consequently, they find it challenging to follow the teachers instructions when introducing new concepts.
The key to their academic success is NOT helping with their homework. These students need support in gaining confidence in their ability to master multiplication, division, fractions, and other concepts that are necessary if they are to master more advanced concepts.
Geometry
Many students complete a year of Geometry and are unclear about what a Sine, Cosine, and Tangent are. Geometry is regarded as the most confusing math course for some students because it is not purely computational.
In this 4- week course, we will explore the concepts that students find most confusing so that they can approach the course with understanding instead of confusion.
Parenting for Academic Success
This workshop consists of 9 monthly meetings for parents where we discuss actions parents can take to create a home environment where their children can flourish academically.
Topics include creating a learning space in the home, creating a positive partnership with teachers, preparing for parent/teacher conferences, clarifying your academic expectations, monitoring student performance, and more.
Strategies will be shared that are specific to elementary, middle and high school students. One of our goals is to equip students with tools to minimize the amount of parent intervention necessary, and for students to take ownership and responsibility for their academic success.
Writing workshop
The writing workshop is a series of three 4-week courses that cover the full spectrum of essay writing from topic selection and refinement through peer review, revision, and editing.
The course can be taken independently or in conjunction with a concurrently enrolled course, as writing topics will be adaptable to your student’s current essay writing objectives.
There is a heavy emphasis on thesis formation and logical development of arguments throughout the course, and a focus on the five methods of reasoning typically sought by high school and college non-fiction composition courses.
Your student will be producing content for a summative essay in the course which will be scored as if it were an essay for a regular high school course.
Because feedback is an essential part of any productive writing program, your student should expect to receive regular individualized responses to assignments, as well as to learn from whole-group study sessions, where students’ writings may be workshopped for illustrative purposes.