Brain Success Systems

10/10/2024

Pray for the Southeast!

07/19/2024

There is someone pretending to be me, using the name “Theresa Hartman II”. IT IS NOT ME! If they contact you, please report them! They are trying to run an extortion scam.

05/16/2024

Hey, friends! Please vote for my friend and colleague Esther Rubalcava Torres Ghio, a woman of great strength and passion for her students, and for everyone she meets!

THE VOTING IS FREE.

I am number 10 and need to be number 1 in order to still be in the running for America’s Favorite Teacher! Voting ends in 6 hours. If you want a North Texas community member to win this national award please vote for me and then repost 🙏🏼

Help Esther Torres Ghio be America’s Favorite Teacher and win $25,000, a trip to Hawaii, and a feature in Reader’s Digest.

03/04/2024

Why do so many people pray that God will do THEIR will, instead of praying for the grace to do HIS Will?

12/09/2023

Public Service Announcement

ADHD is a neurodivergent processing difference. It is not a disease. An ADHD person is not broken, depressed (necessarily), or morally challenged. They process differently. That is all. It didn’t become a problem until the public schools (which were designed to create compliant workers) found that ADHD people were not necessarily compliant. This threw a monkey wrench in the culture of blind uniformity, so ADHD had to become “a problem to be solved,” and not just one of the beautiful designs God uses to create unique individuals. Stop trying to cure something that God intended. As a Learning Acquisition Specialist, I help people find the unique gifts of their learning style and information processing format, and give them sovereignty over their own development. Assimilation is not desirable. Resistance is essential. You have a place in the world, and you don’t need to be “fixed.”

04/10/2023

Parents! Look at what the House of Representatives is discussing about your right to control your own child’s education! Let your voice be heard!

At a House Rules Committee hearing prior to the Congressional recess, Rep. Erin Houchin (R-IN) questioned fellow lawmakers about the Republicans' Parents Bil...

03/29/2023

When you have a "regular" child you feel reasonably confident that class participation and decent study habits will result in good grades. These guys have close friends. They are invited to participate in social things such as dances and weekend gatherings. They form teams, audition organizations, and clubs.
But when you have a child with neurological differences, this is often not the case. Learning can take longer, both academically and socially. Despite their tremendous efforts, results are often a fraction of their peers and social acceptance is fleeting, setting them up for painful comparisons and bitter frustration. Instead of a fun and rewarding experience, school can become a breeding ground for depression and anxiety—and assign a battlefield at home. It's exhausting for both parents and kids. ❤️✨

💜💙💛This Monday starts the week of SPED (Special Education), AUTISM, Asperger, Dyslexia ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) and any neurological difference.
To all the children struggling every day to succeed in a world that doesn't recognize their gifts and talents, ✨ and for those who are walking alongside them, please let this be a loving reminder to be kind and accepting of ALL people.
Children who learn differently are not weird. They are simply talented in ways our society doesn't appreciate enough. Yet they want what everyone else wants: To be accepted!!💜💚💜

If you so choose, please COPY AND PASTE this in honor of all the children who, like so many, are considered "different." Our world would be so much less beautiful without them and so much easier with your empathy. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤍 for the wonderful children who make HUGE efforts every single day of their lives.

04/20/2020

Borrowed:

I'm so sick of the comparison of crisis schooling to homeschooling.

CRISIS SCHOOLING IS NOT HOMESCHOOLING.

Read that again. Crisis schooling is not homeschooling.

I see parents in despair because homeschooling their children is hard and no-one is really coping in their homes.

Crisis schooling is not homeschooling.

What most of you are doing right now is surviving, not thriving. And that is okay!
But this is not homeschooling.

When we homeschool, we pick a curriculum that fits our children's learning style, that reflects our worldview, that (hopefully) inspire a love for learning in our children.

When we homeschool, we focus on learning happening through life; we apply topics in Bible, history, geography, math, science, language, citizenship, economics, etc. to real life all the time. It becomes second nature.

When we homeschool, we set our own hours and we can be flexible. We can follow our children's passions and tie many subjects to that.

When we homeschool, we often don't look at boredom as a negative. It is a wonderful opportunity for children to discover their own imagination and creativity.

When we homeschool, we go on field trips, visit the library regularly, volunteer with people from all walks of life of all ages. We attend co-op, etc.

When we homeschool in normal circumstances, our lives are geared towards it. We don't have additional stress of parents having to work from home or who have lost their jobs. We don't have the additional stress of the world being the way we have never experienced before. We don't have to follow someone else's curriculum on their timeline without the background.

⭐️You are doing well. In fact, you are doing a great job crisis schooling! But please remember, crisis schooling is not homeschooling!⭐️

Public school parents, please don't judge homeschooling by crisis schooling. Please don't tell me you don't know how I do it or that homeschooling can't be good for kids. 💥Your experience of crisis schooling does not give you insight into normal homeschooling, I promise.💥
As homeschoolers, we are also crisis schooling. Our children also miss their friends, they miss their extra classes, they miss field trips, they miss sports. They miss normality.

We are all crisis schooling, to an extent.
And we'll be fine.

(Copied and pasted)

03/26/2020

This is the kind of thing kids will learn and do on their own! They’ll love it!

We're stacking the deck in your favor, math teachers.