School4Schools.com & the A+ Club

We are now enrolling students for the 2023-24 school year

The A+ Club will help your child succeed in the next school year!

Request a FREE ACADEMIC CONSULTATION

You can also use our ACADEMIC NEEDS SURVEY to review your student’s academic needs.
Or call O (703) 271-5334 (no sms) or M (301) 633-1139

Arlington Catholic Herald readers, please let Michael know you saw the ad!

The A+ Club Academic Program helps students meet their potential in all their classes.

A+ Club goes beyond tutoring to help students achieve overall academic success.

We help students set goals, track work… and get it done.
We build student success through a process of articulation and reminders of academic responsibilities.
We believe that all students want success.
Starting at only $150 per month, our monthly service is affordable and effective.

The A+ Club is a unique and powerful student support service that builds student academic ownership and independence.

Awareness

Assignment tracking
Due date monitoring
Prioritization
Teacher expectations
Classroom routines
Syllabus, curricular goals, rubrics, grading elements
Assessment purpose, form & scope

Goal Setting

Time management
Prioritization
Organization
Homework & studying habit
Purpose & relevancy

Accountability

Regular “checkins” for student reflection, goal setting and follow up
Automated SMS reminders
On-demand homework help
Guidance for overall executive function skills

Helping Students & Parents Across the USA

School4Schools.com LLC & the A+ Club
~ Arlington, VA 22204 ~ (703) 271-5334 ~
~ Academic Coaching ~ Academic Tutoring ~ Academic Mentoring ~

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Please see our charity project to support a school in Liberia: Liberia Literacy & School Project: the “Terry & Michael Academy” , sponsored by the

School4Schools Foundation

a Virginia-based public charitable 501(c)(3) corporation
donations are tax deductible

The A+ Club Philosophy:

Articulation and Accountability:

Our job at the A+ Club is to build student awareness and accountability!

When students stop to reflect, they perform better.
When students say it — “articulate it” — they are more likely to do it.
When students engage in academic goal setting, grades go up.
When students reach out for help, they are self-advocating.

What is an academic coach?

An academic coach engages students in all aspects of academic life. Whereas content tutoring helps with particular content and skills, an academic coach teaches students how to develop those skills and learn that content on their own.

Academic coaching is concerned with:

Academic Process

Learning is a process
Prior Knowledge is necessary for next steps
Role of homework in test prep (i.e. formatives v. summatives)
Layered studying

Executive Function

Organization
Time management
Identification & use of resources
Application, will, power and overcoming procrastination

Awareness & Relevancy

Identification of teacher and curricular goals and purpose
Teacher management
Student salesmanship
Avoiding planning fallacies
What’s in it for me?

The Power of Mentoring

Did you know that college graduates are TWICE AS LIKELY to experience job satisfaction if they:

had a mentor in school
- Students who had mentors are 2.2x as likely to experience job satisfaction as those who did not
had positive teachers who cared about them
- Students who felt their teachers cared about them are 1.9 times as likely to experience job satisfaction as those did not

Source: “Life in College Matters for Life After College,” Gallup-Purdue Index

Targeted content tutoring

Yes, we offer math tutoring & tutoring in all subjects!

Academic coaching addresses holistic skills for all-round student improvement. But sometimes just a little help in a subject is all it takes, so we offer scheduled or on-demand tutoring in all subjects, as well as for test prep, essay-writing, and projects.

Once we identify the need for the extra help, our caring and expert tutors can are there for every content area, as well as standardized test prep, including SSAT, HSPT, SAT, AP, IB TESTS.. Please see here for our tutoring programs.

Benefits of the A+ Club

Our parents enjoy:

regular updates of student academic standing
feedback on our interactions with students
professional, third-party help to assist parental oversight build student independence
student self-accountability

Our students enjoy:

non-judgmental, positive support
building academic awareness, organization executive function
assignments, missing work & grades updates
feeling in control, which we call “academic ownership”
confidence, self-advocacy and empowerment

When students say…

I’m so bored.
I don’t test well.
It’s my teacher’s fault.
Things harder this year.
Quit bugging me!

When parents say…

She never has any homework!
He won’t talk about school.
They teach it differently now.
I don’t have time for this.
Why?

This is what we see instead…

* Student not identifying teacher expectations
* Executive function challenges
* Inneffective study habits & time management
* Procrastination struggles