Collaboration
Nancy creates the groundwork for a stronger bridge between your child’s teachers and your child.Step By Step doesn’t replace educators, counselors, medical or other professionals—Nancy supports them. Students gain personalized support to bolster weak areas, which in turn helps students become better able to utilize other forms of support.
Good communication between home, school, and other resources provides students with consistent direction and feedback. Also, parents and educators understand the student’s progress clearly and from a unified perspective.
Nancy works and communicates with everyone involved, resulting in:
- Increasing awareness for parents, educators and other team members
- Students feeling supported by their unified support group
- Students receiving mentoring from different sources towards a clear goal
Nancy encourages middle and high school students to build strong working relationships with their teachers. Such a relationship is vitally important especially when a student feels that she struggling. Additionally, the opportunity to speak openly with a teacher does wonders for building confidence and success.
Parents
Your child spends a lot of time at school—upwards of 30 hours a week—but she also spends a lot of time at home. Just as practicing piano is important to become a good player, your student will need to learn organization and efficient study skills. You need to set balanced guidelines and support the schedule. This over-seeing is less labor-intensive than it sounds, but it does require consistency, firmness, and attention. The earlier your child develops these habits the better, and eventually you will not have to monitor her so closely. That is the goal of Step By Step after all; to create efficient, self-motivated students with a desire to perform to their full potential.
Teachers
When managing a classroom full of students, having one or two disengaged or struggling students can be distracting to you as well as the rest of the class, and can impede your progress as an educator. It can be frustrating; but if you believe the student is truly bright, only unable to focus or a little scattered, Nancy can help. She works intensively one-on-one so that the student will better understand expectations and protocols in the classroom, and will be more involved in class. When the student-teacher ratio does not allow you to give a student the adequate individual attention required, contact Step By Step.
Although the path to success is different for Parents and Educators the goals are the same, to develop healthy happy well-adjusted children who are on track to achieve their full potential.
Could your child benefit from academic coaching?