Academy for Mathematics & English - Sandalwood

📚🚨 Important Update on Canadian Education: Did you know Canada's K-12 system is facing a serious crisis? Teacher shortages and declining student performance in STEM and reading are leaving gaps in learning for many kids across the country. As highlighted in this eye-opening article from UBC (see below), it's more important than ever to provide extra support to help students succeed.

At the Academy for Mathematics & English, we're committed to bridging those gaps with personalized K-12 tutoring tailored to your child's needs. Whether it's math, science, reading, or beyond, our expert tutors are here to boost confidence and skills in a fun, engaging way.

Read the full article here: https://blogs.ubc.ca/mmilner/2025/12/17/canadian-k-12-teaching-crisis

Contact us today for a FREE Evaluation and Academic Success Plan for your child ($150 Value - Yours Free)!

Proud to share another Student of the Month, selected from candidates across the country!

😃Congratulations to Ethan – a Student of the Month Award Winner for June 2022!

Ethan joined the Academy because he was struggling in English & Math. He recently completed our beginner literacy and mathematics programs - Super Readers & Lil' Math Whiz, respectively - and did so in record time! He is a very sincere and dedicated student at the Academy. Now he can read very well as well as do addition & subtractions.

Congratulations, Ethan – from the entire Academy family! Keep up the impressive work!!

We would like to celebrate another Student of the Month Award Winner - Alex - a recent graduate of our Super Readers Program! Way to go, Alex!

You now have in place all the core, foundational skills you need for a lifetime of reading and learning!

Alex's teacher, Iten, is very proud of his accomplishment. Alex is now in our elementary level English program where he will be working on advancing his spelling, grammar, vocabulary, reading comprehension and creative writing skills!

Congratulations to Alex on his success!

Catching up on a backlog of Student of the Month Award Winners! Toba and Toni are celebrated today for recently graduating from our Super Readers Level 1 Program! Their literacy skills are soaring! Congratulations, Toba and Toni!! Keep it up!

Congratulations, Jaiden! You have been selected as one of our Students of the Month!

Congratulations, Vikkas! You are one of our Student of the Month Award Winners! There's nothing we prize more at the Academy than a student who loves to learn! Keep seeking out those answers, Vikkas!

The science of how to teach reading has been well established and is embedded in the VERY heart of our Super Readers program - the underlying methodology of which is proven to be the most powerful method to teach reading to young children based on the largest scale, independent studies ever conducted on literacy!

Phonics is at its heart.

Which is no surprise at all because a half-century of research shows "phonics — sound it out exercises that are purposefully sequenced — is the most effective way to teach reading, along with books that build vocabulary and depth."

And MODERN evidence continues to pile up:

"With brain science steadily adding to that evidence, there is a sense — at least for many in the education establishment — that the debate over early reading instruction may be ebbing. Phonics is ascendant."

Now, as per attached article, a prominent, seminal figure - a policy influencer for literacy instruction globally - has REVERSED course and has adopted phonics once again! Unfortunately, many were raised with "guessing" methods and "picture power" tricks that have nothing to do with how we read.

How do we read? We now KNOW for certain:

"[F]unctional magnetic resonance imaging of the brain demonstrates that humans process written language letter by letter, sound by sound. Far from being automatic, reading requires a rewiring of the brain, which is primed by evolution to recognize faces, not words."

Phonics is the key. Our Super Readers program is the tool that unlocks reading abilities in young children more powerfully than any other - and this is not our opinion: the results of the largest literacy intervention research studies done within the education system itself confirm this to be true.

If you want your young child to read well and to gain these skills with remarkable speed, ask about our Super Readers program today!

In the Fight Over How to Teach Reading, This Guru Makes a Major Retreat Lucy Calkins, a leading literacy expert, has rewritten her curriculum to include a fuller embrace of phonics and the science of reading. Critics may not be appeased.

Here are 7 skills to nurture in your child to help him or her thrive:

1. Self-confidence
2. Empathy
3. Self-control
4. Integrity
5. Curiosity
6. Perseverance
7. Optimism

All of the above are great, and there are two particular points relevant to tutoring that are worth highlighting:

(i) "[C]hildren who attribute their grades to their own efforts and strengths are more successful than kids who believe they have no control over academic outcomes," and

(ii) "Chunking tasks into smaller parts helps kids who have difficulties focusing or getting started.

You can teach your daughter to 'chunk it,' for example, by covering all her math problems with a piece of paper, except the top row. Lower the covered paper down the next row and the next as each row is completed."

A psychologist says these 7 skills separate successful kids from 'the ones who struggle'—and how parents can teach them Thrivers are raised, not born. Through her decades of research, psychologist and parenting expert Michele Borba found seven traits kids need in order to become resilient, mentally strong and self-aware adults. Here's how parents can teach them.

Students struggle with math because it is "cumulative" in nature and "fragile" (in the sense that it hinges on prerequisite knowledge that easily succumbs to the fallibility of memory).

Math is also so much more than a mere subject: as Galileo said, the universe "is written in the language of mathematics."

Thus, math is a system for describing reality itself. Or, as famed author and physicist Brian Greene of Columbia University, New York, has observed, "math is reality.”

No wonder students often struggle and need extra support with this unique subject. This is only natural - and it's why we're always here to help them on that journey . . .

A universe without mathematics is beyond the scope of our imagination The universe "is written in the language of mathematics," according to Galileo.

✅👉Check out the attached Forbes article on some fascinating new research on how to build "reading comprehension" skills in children of all ages and reading abilities. A lot of it comes down to building prior, relevant knowledge on the subject as part of a knowledge-building curriculum...

Also referenced were some novel reading comprehension intervention studies that yielded eye-popping results:

"Teachers read aloud novels that exceeded students’ own reading abilities for about 30 minutes a day, leading class discussions at the end of each chapter, for 12 weeks. In an initial experiment with 12- and 13-year-olds, poor readers made 16 months of progress in that time, as measured by a standardized reading comprehension test.

"When the same thing was tried with the equivalent of first- and third-graders in a school that served many struggling readers, around 90% of all students made more than six months of progress. In the third-grade class, 78% made more than two years of progress. When the experiment was extended to all elementary grades in the school, the average improvement was 15 months."

‘What Works’ In Reading Comprehension—And What Doesn’t Research in education rarely draws on the substantial body of scientific evidence on how learning works. That’s a problem for teachers, students—and the rest of us.