by aspire | Oct 4, 2021 | academic slide, anxiety, anxiety, coping, Covid-19, Education, Help, help for home, help with school, learning difficulties/differences, learning loss, managing, Parents, regression, RITES, School stress, struggling, summer slide, Uncategorized
Part 2: Relax yourself! Preparing for (and dealing with) the academic slide of learning loss and having fallen behind due to the pandemic It is easy in these difficult times to feel overwhelmed and anxious. If you have school-aged children, those feelings can be...
by aspire | Oct 1, 2021 | anxiety, anxiety, coping, Covid-19, distance learning, Education, Help, help for home, help with school, learning difficulties/differences, learning loss, managing, Parents, regression, RITES, School stress, struggling, summer slide, Uncategorized
Now that kids are back to school, returning to in-person classrooms, how do we navigate this “new normal” with them to assure their success? We have all had to make a huge number of adjustments over the last year and a half of the COVID-19 pandemic. While the weight...
by aspire | Jan 25, 2021 | Academic support tutor, Better grades, Education, Foreign Languages, Help, high school, Learning at home, online learning, online learning tools, Programs, Rhode Island Tutors, RITES, RITES Programs, School stress, Spanish, Tutoring, Uncategorized
Want to do better in Spanish class? Meet Candy Salazar Reilly, RITES Spanish language specialist. Candy works with students of all levels and all ages to improve their Spanish skills. Her passion has always been to teach, and she feels she is most at home when in the...
by aspire | Mar 21, 2020 | anxiety, Education, eighth grade, Elementary school, fifth grade, first grade, fourth grade, Grades, help for home, help with school, high school, high school students, home school, Homework, Learning at home, learning difficulties/differences, Math, math help, math tools, Parents, Reading, Reading & Writing, Reading skills, School stress, science, second grade, seventh grade, sixth grade, struggling, third grade, Writing skills
By Saskia Nilsen RITES learning specialist and education advocate Try something fun each day. You’ve got this! Keep your child learning and achieving goals, while also social distancing and working from home yourself. Below are ideas to support parents at home...
by aspire | Mar 21, 2020 | ADHD, anxiety, dyslexia, Education, eighth grade, fifth grade, first grade, Grades, Help, help for home, high school students, home school, Homework, Learning at home, learning difficulties/differences, Math, math help, math tools, Reading, Reading & Writing, Reading skills, regression, School stress, second grade, seventh grade, sixth grade, struggling, third grade, Uncategorized
By Saskia Nilsen RITES learning specialist and education advocate Technology can help, but it cannot replace hands-on learning or monitoring required for students. While schools may have already suggested websites for students, students with a wider range of learning...
by aspire | Feb 28, 2019 | ADHD, Education, eighth grade, exams, Executive function, finals, Grades, high school, high school students, learning difficulties/differences, Math, organization, organizational challenges, RITES Programs, School stress, seventh grade, sixth grade, study skills, study skills curriculum, Summer Programs RI, Test-taking, Time Management, trouble with high school math, Uncategorized
Difficulty with Studying and Organizing? Students who have not developed necessary study skills are at a disadvantage in the classroom and as future employees. Developing effective study skills is essential to becoming an independent learner, who can function well in...
