Admissions Advice: Making the Most of Your School Visit: A Five-Step Guide for Families
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Publications
UnAware: An Experience for Educators
PUBLICATION​ UnAware: An Experience for Educators Purchase UnAware offers a transformative experience for educators within democratic, capitalist societies, drawing foundation from the United States education system while also applicable to
Strategies Are Your Superpowers: Executive Function Strategies for Middle and High School Students
A college student has a myriad of roles and responsibilities that require strategies and skills to accomplish. There are academics to learn, professors to connect with, friends to make, social calendars to keep, arts and athletics to pursue, health to maintain, and careers to pursue. The more we can empower young people to have the experience which involves using strategies to accomplish tasks of all kinds, the more we will see them thrive and learn well. This book aims to provide a base of strategy for the common responsibilities that college students have; however, I leave room for students and learning specialists to create and respond to an ever-evolving higher educational landscape.
Disability: ABILITY
The field of special education in 2022 has progressed to a point where we have ways to treat and support students with learning issues, and yet, we frame so much of the special education process from a deficit-based mindset. Even the word, “disability” supports this negative connotation of neurodiversity. This idea book outlines a paradigm for how to view and work with students with diagnoses formed through experience, research, and creativity in a way that supports an ability-forward mindset. Anyone who is parenting or teaching in the special education field would benefit from reading this book and using its ideas within the context of their practice.
How to Tutor
Tutoring is a billion-dollar industry. Much of it involves standardized test preparation and content-based training for tutors. This book, built on my 25+ year career as a learning specialist, outlines a model for tutors that they can use to ensure the whole child learns well. It shows tutors how to tutor in a way that will be most impactful, especially as we enter test-optional admissions processes and a successful learning experience. Tutors can use this book to frame their practice, retain students, and empower students to learn well.
A Parent’s Guide to Special Education
Each child who has special needs brings special gifts. But often, when we start our journey of parenting our children with special needs, it doesn’t feel that way. We might be really struggling to parent, or to watch them fail at learning or socializing. We sit in an IEP meeting or school meeting and hear how something is going wrong and the struggles our child is having. It feels pretty awful, and our human brains tend to focus on what we need to improve – what is going wrong.
A Parent’s Guide to Tutoring
Every single parent, myself included, wants our children to be happy. Educational success is often a key component of this overall happiness.
We hope that our children are attending great schools packed with concerned, passionate, and attentive teachers, and that when they come home from school, they are able to reach into their backpacks, pull out the day’s homework, and complete the assignment with confidence. If that scenario sounds like a pipe dream, you are not alone. Sometimes our children struggle and need support neither you nor their regular teacher can provide. This is where tutoring steps in to fill the void.
10 Steps to Admissions Success
If you grew up anywhere but New York City, the elaborate, time-consuming, and complicated process of getting your child into nursery school, middle school, or high school can seem absurdly complex: interviews, letters of recommendation, testing – none of which was required of me until I was applying to college. This process tracks with the acknowledged truth about living in New York City: things are tougher, but the rewards are bigger. NYC, the boroughs, New Jersey, and Connecticut are full of world-class schools, each with its own unique philosophy, campus, and culture.
Finding, applying to, and getting into a best-fit school doesn’t have to be a headache of an experience, but an
enriching one. It can be a process where you gain invaluable insight into your children and your own family. Before I begin a consulting relationship with any client, it is essential that we all have the same framework through which to view and discuss this process.
How to Prepare for Private School Kindergarten Admissions
As a parent, embarking on the Kindergarten admissions process can be both exciting and daunting. New York City offers a wide array of school choices, and identifying and gaining admission to a school that is the best fit for your child and family will set your child up for success for many years to come.
30 Strategies For Learning Well in College
A college student has a myriad of roles and responsibilities that require strategies and skills to accomplish. There are academics to learn, professors to connect with, friends to make, social calendars to keep, arts and athletics to pursue, health to maintain, and careers to pursue. The more we can empower young people to have the experience which involves using strategies to accomplish tasks of all kinds, the more we will see them thrive and learn well. This book aims to provide a base of strategy for the common responsibilities that college students have; however, I leave room for students and learning specialists to create and respond to an ever-evolving higher educational landscape.