Square Peg Tutoring

Dear Parents, I am now assembling my tutoring schedule for SY 2024-2025!

It's summertime, and tutoring continues! We are still scheduling for summer 2024 through August 22nd!

https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/63759/why-writing-by-hand-beats-typing-for-thinking-and-learning

Why Writing by Hand Beats Typing for Thinking and Learning | KQED Researchers are learning that handwriting engages the brain in ways typing can't match, raising questions about the costs of screens, especially for kids.

One thing that I have learned in Orton-Gillingham-based training is not to "make rules that expire". This rule has expired. :-)

Truly Inspiring! Also, the article features another video of Ms. Gorman's amazing work.

Amanda Gorman, Youth Poet Laureate, has speech and auditory processing issues Get to know Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman, who has speech and auditory processing issues. Read about Gorman’s journey, and watch as she recites her poetry.

I often use craft sticks to teach place value by bundling and unbundling groups of ten and groups of 100. This is a photo of me posing with my '1,000' craft stick bundle (and looking surprised).

An excellent article from Attention Magazine about the impacts of excessive screen time during this lockdown. The insights certainly apply to adults, too (including this one).

Limiting Screen Time During a Pandemic: A Guide for Parents - CHADD ADHD NEWSSTAND FOR PARENTS AND CAREGIVERS Limiting Screen Time During a Pandemic: A Guide for Parents by Clifford Sussman, MD Attention Magazine October 2020 Download PDF The COVID-19 lockdown has taken our usually functional (and sometime dysfunctional) dependence on technology as a society to a ne...