Learning Guides
1. Understand the underlying causes of learning struggles.
Once you understand the causes, you can identify the specific causes and address them to empower success.
2. Family Survey
Daily family life impacts child development.
Download and review the survey below to evaluate your family situation and understand the key factors.
3. Trauma
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
Trauma can impact learning effectiveness, mental health, and physical health. It is important to understand the issue and address it as needed.
ACEs are a subset and can impact adults also.
In the PowerPoint there is a link to an ACEs survey tool.
4. ADD/ADHD
ADHD is now the official umbrella medical term.
This can impact adults as well as youth.
Diagnosis can only be provided by qualified medical personnel.
However, there is a lot of great information available to help you understand the topic.
5. Wellbeing Upgrade System
There are at least 16 major systemic factors that impact individual and family wellbeing. Evaluate your factors and develop a plan to upgrade your wellbeing. This includes the family but focuses on youth wellbeing.
6. Skill Scan
Overview of the many elements that need to be addressed as an holistic approach to building skills to empower success.
No one program can address the full range of skills and factors.
The causes are often interrelated and must be addressed holistically.
7. Womb-to-classroom
There are many free, simple activities that parents can do with their children during this critical child development period. Download the list of activities on the right. Review the video.
8. Social emotional learning (skills)
If a student does not believe they can succeed, that mindset can stop them from succeeding, even if they could.
We can identify the skill gaps and provide the training that can close the skill gap, but if a student has a fixed mindset and low self-esteem, that can sabotage program effectiveness. Build a growth mindset has to come first.
9. Visual Processing Skills
The eyes only receive light stimuli.
The brain has to interpret that information and make sense of it.
You don't actually see the letters and words directly.
The brain sees the light stimuli and has to build an understanding of the light and contrast and actually construct the words in the visual processing center of the brain.
For the tracking exercise, click the button, then click to open in Google Slides, then Click Slide Presentation. Then click to start.
10. Reading Kingdom
Complete early reading program online.
Self guided.
11. Cognitive Processing Skills--the Gibson Test of brain skills
12. BrainSkills Training
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