Turbo boost MEAP scores even for your struggling students. Parents are a child's first teacher. If the parent is fully involved, students will study more, complete homework and perform better on standardized test.
Many parents want their children to go to college, but have no clue how to prepare them.
We TEACH Parents how to become better teachers at home and how to become involved in the academics at school
A coordinated strategy of parent communications and parent workshops can educate parents how to assist their children at home and impact what happens at home.Let us assist you encourage your parents and students to strengthen their skills with coordinated academic strategy.
RESULTS of COORDINATED ACADEMIC STRATEGY
Detroit School of Arts 2008-2009
Instituted Integrating Math and Science in Every Day Life workshop series
Served as Evening/Weekend tutor Carnegie Math Credit Recovery Algebra/Geometry
MME Math proficiency increased to 17.58% from 12.70%
MME Science proficiency increased to 27.27% from 23.53%
Hustle & TECHknow Preparatory High School 2006-2007
Created unique English class to solve illiteracy problem
Class moved schools’ collective Lexile Reading grade level from 4.2 to 7.8
Sent three quarter finalist to the National Vocabulary Championship
Educational Program of the Year 2007, Automation Alley
Duke Ellington Conservatory of Music and Art 2005- 2006
Orchestrated merger of two existing Detroit Public Schools.
Increased Middle School MEAP scores to 84% in Reading from 44%
Enhanced teacher –parent partnership
Increased parent involvement at home and at school
Hanstein Elementary 2002-2004
Orchestrated increase in MEAP scores to 78% in Reading from 28% in Reading and
Orchestrated increase in MEAP scores to 69.1% in Math from 39.1% in Math
Enhanced teacher –parent partnership
Increased parent involvement at home and at school
Duke Ellington Conservatory of Music and Art 2006-2007 by 40%.
Uplift, Inc. is currently working on a year long project with Detroit School of Arts Here is the testimony from the Principal Dr. Denise Davis - Cotton, "Ms. Byrd-Hill is currently serving as a facilitator for parents focused on math and science curriculum integration. She designs workshops carefully and works in collaboration with school and district staff to help parents help their children reach high academic goals according to their potentials. Her workshops are engaging and the parent participants enjoy being in the workshops.She incorporates videos, technology, and the internet. She is very resourceful and provides materials and resources that are relevant and useful. She has high expectations for all parents. She motivates them to help their children achieve their academic goals, both in class and after school, and encourages ownership. "
COURSES OFFERED
CAREER EXPLORATION
1001 Let's Explore Your Child's Career
In order to reach a goal one must set one. Students need to know how to prepare for their career. Parents need to know how to discover their children’s talents to develop a career a path for them.
1002 Educational Development Plans
Educational Development Plans (EDP)s are written career development plans for students detailing career goal classes needed, ideal college or post secondary training. Ideally, students should have an EDP created in 6th grade no later than 8th grade. Workshop to assist parents to prepare an EDP.
COMPUTER EDUCATION
2001 Email/ Internet - Correspondence Network of 21st Century
Do you want to learn more about exciting free online activities and resources available? In this workshop you will learn to use the Internet as a tool for educational resources.
2004 Microsoft Word 1
This course is designed for those with little experience in Microsoft Office who desire to create a create, edit, format, lay out, and print standard business documents complete with tables and graphics.
2005 Microsoft Word 2
This course is designed for persons who can create and modify standard business documents in Microsoft Office Word , and who need to learn how to use Microsoft Office Word to create or modify complex business documents as well as customized Word efficiency tools.
2006 Microsoft Excel 1
This course is designed for persons who desire to gain the skills necessary to create, edit, format, and print basic Microsoft® Office Excel 2003 worksheets.
2007 Microsoft Excel 2
This course is designed for students who desire to gain the skills necessary to create templates, sort and filter data, import and export data, analyze data, and work with Excel on the Web. Prerequisite: Microsoft Excel 1
2008 Microsoft PowerPoint 1
This course is designed for students who are interested in learning the fundamentals needed to create and modify basic Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 presentations.
2009 Microsoft PowerPoint 2
This course is designed for students who desire to gain the skills necessary to work with design templates, organizational charts, special effects, Web presentations, collaboration functionality, and advanced presentation delivery, Prerequisite: Microsoft PowerPoint 1
2010 Internet Safety
This course discusses how to protect your student from internet predators. It also discusses many of the sites young people gravitate towards.
2011 Online Education and the Special Needs Child
This course discusses trends in online education and how this education may be better suited to assist the special needs child, with particular attention to austic and learning disabled students.
2012 Virtual Education - Personalized Education at its best
This course discusses virtual education and its growth worldwide and how it could improve the student’s educational experience.
GLOBAL
3001 Grades – Passport to FREE/ Near FREE Global Journeys
This course provides information on researching, and securing global travel opportunities. There are so many opportunities for young people to travel the global for free or near free if they have grade point averages above a 2.5.
This course discusses what global competition is and what skills young people will need to secure career and business opportunities today and in the future.
MATH/ SCIENCE
4001 Eradicating Math Anxiety & Fear
This course discusses the fear and anxiety we pass along to our students that keep them from succeeding in math and science. and how to eliminate it.
4002 Hands-on Math and Science Activities at Home
This course provides Make and takes activities that reinforce math and science skills at home.
4003 High Demand Critical Thinking Skills depend on Science
This course discusses the importance of science in developing high demand critical thinking and how students can succeed in science classes. The new economy requires employees and students to have high demand critical thinking skills to survive and thrive.
4004 Language of Math
This course discusses the universal language of math and how to assist a student in acquiring it. Often students fail at standardized test as they fail to understand the language of math.
PARENT ADVOCACY
5001 Parent Advocacy: How to Fight Fairly for your Child
This course discusses how to secure an excellent education for your child with belligerent behavior. It discusses the politics of maneuver throughout a large school system.
5002 Building a Strong Highly Functioning Parent Group
This course discusses the power parents have in building excellent school systems and how to marshall/ recruit parents to exercise this power.
5003 TITLE I – Its Importance
This course discusses, What is title I and how a parent can utilize it to improve their student’s educational experience. It also explains No Child Left Behind and its impact on schools.
READING/WRITING
6001 Journal – Fun Way to Write*
This course discusses how to interject fun in writing by journaling about one’s life and how to incorporate the 4 writing formats to facilitate daily practice. Journals are available for purchase to distribute to participants.
6002 Struggling Readers - How to Assist Them
This course defines struggling readers and how to assist those in middle to high school utilizing computer/ internet based software.
6003 VIDEO GAMES – Key to Building Vocabulary
This course discusses video game usage as a foundation to improve vocabulary. Participant will receive instruction in how to utilize video games to improve vocabulary.
6004 Vocabulary- Basis of reading and writing*
This course discusses vocabulary acquisition. A normal high school student should have acquired 50,000 words by 10th grade to be successful on standardized exams.
SOCIAL
7001 Breakin’ Out of Your Financial Funk!*
This course discusses how to survive the difficult economy and the problems that economy brings. It is based on the book of the same title. Books are available for purchase to distribute to participants.
7002 Dad’s, the Special Connection
This course discusses the importance of father’s in the life of children and why parents should clear every barrier to include fathers in their children’s lives.
7003 Kiss Your Teen Turmoil Away!*
This course discusses how to survive teenage hood with both the parent and child intact while protecting students from becoming involved in the negativities of life. Books are available for purchase to distribute to participants.
STUDYING/HOMEWORK
8001 Textbook- Homework Guide and Lesson Interpreter
This course discusses how to use any textbook to determine what your child should be studying to achieve great success.
8002 Effort Makes Perfect: Necessity of Homework & Studying
This course discusses the relevancy of homework and studying and what makes them different.
8003 Organization - Key to Success
This course discusses the importance of organization of time, papers in determining the success of a student. It also provides strategies and techniques to organizing your student’s paper tiger.
TESTING
8004 Ace Any Standardized Exam
This course discusses how to pass any standardized test. While knowing the information is important, practicing the strategies of taking a test is more important. This course dissects a standardized exam to determine what a student should study.
8005 Test Taking Strategies that Never Fail
This course teaches test taking strategies to elevate test anxiety and promote successful passage.
STAFF
9001 Building strong parent relationships to impact classroom
This course discusses how a teacher can build a strong relationship with parents to support them in the classroom and at home
9002 VIDEO GAMES- Key to Improving vocabulary
This course discusses video game usage as a foundation to improve vocabulary. Participant will receive instruction in how to utilize video games to improve vocabulary.
9003 Online Education and the Special Needs Child
This course discusses trends in online education and how this education may be better suited to assist the special needs child, with particular attention to austic and learning disabled students.
9004 Saving Struggling Readers
This course was designed to assist teachers coach a parent to accept the responsibility that their struggling reader can learn to read. These parents often are angry and belligerent crying out for assistance. Teachers often do not see their behavior as a cry for help.
9005 Ace Any Standardized Exam
This course discusses how to pass any standardized test. While knowing the information is important, practicing the strategies of taking a test is more important. This course dissects a standardized exam to determine what a student should study
9005 Teaching Time Management and Organization
This class was designed to teach teachers how to instruct students on time management and organization. Everyone assumes students know how to organize themselves and many times they do not causing poor grades.
*Upheaval Media, Inc. has created specialty books to accompany these courses. They are available for purchase separate from the training fee. Click here.
We usually tailor a course to fit school culture and academic needs!!!
