Sara Teaches Parents And Kids HOW To

Thrive Learning

Want to work virtually with an educational specialist on HOW to help your child/teen with learning differences make progress and feel good about learning?

my child is capable. I WANT TO LEARN HOW TO SUPPORT THEM BETTER.

1:1 Virtual Learning Sessions

For parents individually, students individually, or parents and students together.

Sara teaches students directly and also teaches parents HOW to meet students at their specific learning level, and build skills in a less complicated and fun way.

Specialized Math Facts & Anxiety

Sara teaches kids and parents struggling with subtraction, multiplication, and division facts & math challenges and dyscalculia.

Sara teaches HOW to build number sense and HOW to break down the + – x / facts into simpler learning categories.

Sara teaches how to make the learning easier and one step at a time.

Sara incorporates movement and makes games with you so learning can be enjoyable, playful, and transferable to new situations.

Specialized Learning Success & Mindset

Sara teaches overwhelmed kids and parents HOW to self advocate for the way learning makes sense to YOU.

Sara teaches families HOW to collaborate with schools.

Sara teaches homeschool parents HOW to scaffold undeveloped skills and choose curriculum.

Sara teaches HOW to develop learning confidence & optimism, and HOW to reset when learning gets frustrating and stressful.

“Even though it’s been hard in the past, learning can get easier.”

Specialized Reading Comprehension & Spelling

Sara teaches kids and parents HOW to build reading comprehension, writing and language skills using your current assigned book/text.

Sara teaches you HOW to interact with the text when reading to build comprehension, language,
visualizing,
critical thinking,
and vocabulary.

Sara teaches HOW to identify text structure in non fiction text.

It’s much more enjoyable to read something you understand!

Sara specializes in neurodiverse learning styles including learners who are challenged with learning differences & disabilities, executive function & ADHD, twice-exceptional, gifted, auditory processing, dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, and language processing disorders.

Why you should work with Sara.

  • Sara is passionate about helping humans be their best learners.
  • Sara has extensive knowledge in curriculum and specialized approaches.
  • Sara incorporates student’s strengths, interests, sensory needs, and feelings about learning.
  • Sara has a Masters in Special Education, and has been practicing as an educational therapist for nearly 20 years.
  • Sara is experienced scaffolding learning sessions to student’s needs.
  • Sara does not stick to any specific program. Learning is customized.
  • Sara identifies the student’s learning needs and incorporates concepts from many different specialized approaches including: Making Math Real, Structured Word Inquiry, Orton Gillingham, Slingerland, Lindamood Bell, Learning Without Tears, Project Read, and The Alert Program.

Learning is fun when it feels good.

  • “I’m so glad I reached out to Sara.

    Sara figured out exactly what my daughter needed to work on to improve her reading skills.”
    – 6th grade parent
  • “Working with Sara has been terrific for my son’s math facts and his dyscalculia.

    He had been barely hanging in there with math, and Sara showed us how to work with him at home and teach him in the way he learns best. Our son is much more confident and so much happier with school.”
    – 3rd grade parent
  • “Our son is self-sufficient in a way we’d only dreamed about and weren’t sure would happen.

    Many, many thanks.”
    – 8th grade parent
  • “Thank you so much for everything you have done for him and me. You always stuck by my side and helped me make the right decisions for him. You did so many wonderful things for him. It’s funny because often when he has his therapy sessions the different therapists will ask him how he already knows something they are talking about. He told me he always replies, that’s because of my Ms. Sara”❤️

  • “Thanks for all of your help with our daughter. I love how she is building confidence.”