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Back to School Preparedness Week
We believe that a “Back to School Preparedness Week” creates one more tool parents and students can use to ensure that education stays foremost in the minds of our citizenry and institutions. We have always maintained that education is not an event or a task or even a chore, but an ongoing process that strengthens us all, thus strengthening our families, communities, state, and country.
In celebration of “Back to School Preparedness Week” New England Tutors is offering 4 free workshops in the Dover/Portsmouth area, a free mock SAT, and a discount when signing up for the 2014-2015 school year. Make sure to read our full post to get all of the information!
New White Paper – Our Approach to ADD/ADHD
New England Tutors does not view ADD and ADHD as a disability, but as a unique ability that should be more openly embraced in the education community. In support of this belief we’ve just released our latest white paper, “Our Approach to ADD/ADHD.”
In this paper we discuss a complete definition of ADD/ADHD, the effects, the consequences, and quite frankly the utter frustration that some teachers, professionals, and parents encounter when faced with a child or young adult with ADD/ADHD. We’ll also help guide parents in a direction that is geared toward assisting the child positively make his or her own way in the world. Our experience has shown us that many students with ADD/ADHD are extremely intelligent but simply lack the skills necessary to put their intelligence to good use. Paired with one of our tutors that has been trained in the latest techniques of working with ADD/ADHD we’ve seen some of our students have great success at schools such as…
An update on Camp CARD NE!
Earlier this year we posted about The Center for Autism and Related Disabilities New England (CARDNE) and include some great information regarding their Summer Camp Program - CAMP CARD NE, which offers experiences uniquely designed for children with autism spectrum...
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…Traditionally, this tends to be the same for kids of all ages. Leaving the confines of the classroom for unlimited outdoor play, lax bedtimes and new and exciting encounters is welcome and embraced. This experience always makes me ponder the question, why can’t the classroom be more like summer break and why can’t summer break adopt more of the classroom learning?…
Summer Is Here…I Think?
I am not a New Year's resolution type. For me, the beginning of summer break has always been a time to review, renew and reset not only my personal but also my business life. With longer days, warmer weather, and all the vivid colors and smells, I get inspired to...
US Students Reach 80% Graduation Rate
Good news hit the US media outlets on April 28th. A study showed that over 80% of high school students in the US graduated on time this year. For the first time in U.S. history the nation’s high school graduation rate rose above 80 percent, according to the 2014...
Support “Indie Rising”!
New England Tutors is proudly supporting “Indie Rising”, a wonderful new TV series being filmed right in our own backyard, and we hope you will too!
Summer Learning Loss
Summer Learning Loss is a topic so important to some parents and educators that it has its own article in Wikipedia. Research is also showing that Summer Learning Loss is strongly correlated to a student’s socio-economic status. Low-income children, generally in the primary grades, experience greater losses over the summer vacation than do their middle-income peers. That there is a problem is not under debate. How to fix the problem is another story.
A Great Resource for Autism & Related Disabilities
Below is information from Cindy Ziobrowski MS Ed., Executive Director CARDNE. The Center for Autism and Related Disabilities New England (CARDNE) is a worthwhile program that anyone who has a child or friend with autism or a related disability should look into. And...
Read Across America
"When parents, educators, librarians, and mentors read with children, they give a gift that will nourish souls for a lifetime. Today, Americans young and old will take time to get lost in a story and do their part to cultivate the next generation of talent and...