Keep Your Brain Engaged While You Have Fun with Summer Writing Everyday writing activities are a great way to avoid summer brain drain and boost higher-level thinking skills. These activities bring together a variety of academic skills that need to be practiced to avoid losing them: Emailing a pen pal Maintaining a reading log Making up new summer recipes Recording the results of … [Read more...]
What You Need to Know Now About Summer Brain Drain
Summer brain drain is the loss of academic skills over a period of time that a student is away from school, most usually summer vacation. Brain drain is also referred to as summer slide, learning loss or regression. The research shows that the average student loses 2 1/2 months of math computational skills previously learned, regardless of family income and educational levels. It can take … [Read more...]
When to Look Beyond Your School for Extended School Year (ESY)
By Saskia Nilsen, M.A. Learning Specialist and RITES advocateExtended School Year (ESY) summer programs that you pay for are an important investment in your child’s future, especially for those with complex learning profiles.While many schools offer ESY, they may not be individualized, intensive, or focused enough for a struggling student. (For this reason, even though both my kids qualify for … [Read more...]
Extended School Year (ESY) Qualifying Criteria
By Saskia Nilsen, M.A. Learning Specialist and RITES advocateDon't be fooled - if your child has a documented learning difference, your child probably does qualify for Extended School Year!Around this time of year, many parents of kids with IEPs are often told that their child does not qualify for Extended School Year (ESY) without a team meeting to discuss the qualifying criteria. What can you … [Read more...]
Part 4: Living Well with Executive Functioning Challenges
By Saskia Nilsen, M.A. Learning Specialist and RITES advocate Good executive functioning is the key to success with life skills. Here are some steps you can take to help your child get more organized and cope with temporary road blocks at home: Model Flexible Thinking: We often make hundreds of decisions a day - chicken or beef tacos for dinner, answer the phone or call back later, etc. A … [Read more...]
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