1st Quarter in the bag!
(but Fall finals coming up for College Students)
We hope it went well for your student.
If not, the A+ Club can help your child succeed through the rest of the 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 ~
Please see:
- Real client testimonials
- Academic needs survey
- Request a Free Academic Constultation
- Summer Enrichment Courses & SAT Prep
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
* No time to log in to school websites
* Can’t help with the course work
* Grade surprises
* Teachers unresponsive
* IEP not enforced or helping
A student and her mom don’t always see eye-to-eye about school work…
How our program works:
