Schools--Helping all students achieve their full potential
Why does a student underperform?
In most cases, students who under-perform entered kindergarten with a skill gap, which impacted their ability to understand or process instruction well. They started behind and never caught up? (Please click to see the full Model.)
We provide schools with affordable and effective tools to understand the Skill Gap for each student and help to close the Gap so each student learns more effectively.
How to close the Skill Gap
Closing the Skill Gap requires intensive, individual training.
This training is delivered primarily online and can be done at home, after school or during school as the schedule permits.
We promote and enable better family engagement.
We focus on grades K-2 to help all learning capable students achieve reading success by third grade.
However, the same training principles also apply to help students in third grade and above who are behind to catch up.
Checklist
Why does a student underperform?
In most cases, students who under-perform entered kindergarten with a skill gap, which impacted their ability to understand or process instruction well. They started behind and never caught up? (Please click to see the full Model.)
We provide schools with affordable and effective tools to understand the Skill Gap for each student and help to close the Gap so each student learns more effectively.
How to close the Skill Gap
Closing the Skill Gap requires intensive, individual training.
This training is delivered primarily online and can be done at home, after school or during school as the schedule permits.
We promote and enable better family engagement.
We focus on grades K-2 to help all learning capable students achieve reading success by third grade.
However, the same training principles also apply to help students in third grade and above who are behind to catch up.
Checklist
Program Principles
- Focus on grades K-2 to prevent reading problems
- Engage families to actively participate
- Inform parents about how to help their children succeed
- Provide guided activities they can do at home
- Provide support for parents to improve skills as needed and support older students in the family who may struggle
- Provide ongoing opportunities to meet and interact; create a feeling of being part of something special
- Provide social media network through which parents can interact with one another as appropriate and find community resources
- Enable students to train at home a significant amount
- Help to connect all families to the Internet at home
- Provide incentives to participate
- Provide affordable and effective online training programs
- The program can be implemented in stages to ensure fidelity of implementation, achieve staff buy-in, and provide time to secure resources, including volunteers
- Promote a more holistic approach to learning and emphasize fidelity of implementation
- Establish high expectations of success; establish growth mindset
- Promote family and student accountability
- Develop Success Campaign
- Provide incentives as appropriate