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2010 Parent Workshop Series
(Student Workshops available, too. For more about these, click here!)
Presented by:
Rhode Island Tutorial & Educational Services with Jennifer Jencks, LICSW
Hosted by:
Lincoln School, 301 Butler Avenue, Providence, RI 02906
Selected Mondays - 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. - Providence, Rhode Island
November 9, 2009 - Advocating Effectively for Your Child
January 11, 2010 - Making the Grade:Successful Study & Organizational Skills
March 8, 2010 - Supporting Your Struggling Reader
April 5, 2010 - The Speech & Language Piece of the Puzzle
All workshops are held Monday evenings, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
at Lincoln School, 301 Butler Avenue, Providence, RI 02906
Refreshments will be served, courtesy of Scialo’s Bakery
$10 each workshop | $20 for any 3 | $30 for all 4
For workshop details, see below.
To register, download, fill out and return form or call us at (401) 723-4459
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NOVEMBER 9, 2009
A. Advocating Effectively for Your Child
Presented by Myrna Silverstein, Ph.D.
This workshop will focus on familiarization with key terms for school services, identifying the guidelines of 504 plans and I.E.P.’s, and how to prepare for effective school meetings to get the right services for your child. You’ll go home with a packet of helpful information, resources and reference tools.
For families who think they may need additional educational services, those who need to implement an I.E.P. or 504, and those who are already within this process.
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JANUARY 11, 2010
B. Making the Grade: Successful Study &
Organizational Skills
Presented by Rebecca Ladd, M.A., Reading Specialist
Bring your child with his or her backpack, and learn how to organize at home for school success with hands-on demonstrations and solutions, from organizing the backpack to optimizing homework space. Find out how to support the system your child’s teacher has put in place by creating a consistent, complementary system at home. Discover how to transfer organizational responsibility to your child effectively. Buy organizational materials discussed, right on-site.
For parents and their children to attend together (workshop fee applies to adults only); this workshop is intended for school-aged children with regular homework, but is geared most specifically toward middle and high school levels.
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MARCH 8, 2010
C. Supporting Your Struggling Reader
Presented by Jonathan Green, M.Ed.,
Director of The Hamilton School at Wheeler
How do you know if your child has a reading problem? What can you do at home to help your child? How do you decide what kind of support your child needs? What kinds of resources are available to you beyond the school year? Find out the answers to these questions and more.
After this initial session, for those who are interested, hear about a summer program for struggling readers, with the opportunity to meet the Site Director and some of the faculty.
For parents and teachers of children who are struggling to read in the elementary and middle school grades.
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APRIL 5, 2010
D. The Speech & Language Piece of the Puzzle
Presented by Anne M. Ferraro, MS CCC SLP(C)
Speech-Language Pathologist, Pediatric Clinical Coordinator, Audiology/Speech Pathology Department, RI/Hasbro Children’s Hospital
Find out how speech-and-language issues in children are identified, how the symptoms and treatment differ from other language difficulties, the process and impact of providing services, and how to help at home.
For parents and teachers who suspect their children may have a speech-and-language problem, or for those who have recently identified a speech-and-language deficit.
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Rhode Island Tutorial & Educational Services was established over a decade ago to help students with various learning styles realize their academic potential. RITES has helped hundreds of students develop the skills for success both in their classrooms and at home by offering one-on-one tutoring, small-group instruction, summer programs, assessment services, and advocacy support to the Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts communities. The RITES staff understands that the “one size fits all” approach to instruction just doesn’t work, so RITES teachers develop personalized plans of instruction based on each student’s learning needs. For more information, visit www.ritutorial.org.
Jennifer Jencks, LICSW is a licensed independent clinical social worker, who has been in private practice in the Rhode Island area for the past 12 years. She is dedicated to providing quality therapy and services to children and adolescents with a variety of anxiety disorders. She collaborates with several area professionals, including fellow therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, schools, families, and other educational organizations, such as RITES. For more information, visit www.easinganxiety.com.
Lincoln School is an independent college preparatory school for girls where high academic and ethical standards challenge students from Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 12 to nurture their special talents and interests. Drawing on its Quaker heritage, Lincoln School focuses on character and values, as well as knowledge, simplicity, cooperation, mutual respect, and nonviolent resolution of conflict. The aims of a Lincoln education are confidence, achievement, a commitment to service, and a life-long love of learning. For more information, visit www.lincolnschool.org.
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RITES also offers
STUDENT WORKSHOPS!
Consecutive Sundays, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
January 17, 24, 31 and February 7, 2010
RITES Learning Center, 334 East Avenue, Pawtucket
Want better grades? Can’t figure out how to study for that big test? Wish you knew what notes to take?
Join us for our high school study skills workshops. Work with an experienced, friendly teacher in a peer-group setting to improve your study habits, hone your note-taking skills, and ace that next test for a better grade. For more details, click here.
RITES provides
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
for TEACHERS, too!
August 2, 2010
8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
This is a "pre-training" day for participants who do not have previous exposure to a multisensory, systematic approach to teaching reading, spelling and writing. We'll use this day to get participants up to speed on certain key elements of this approach in order to get the most from the course.
August 3, 4, 5, 2010
8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
October 2, 2010
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Our Beyond the Basics course provides hands-on literacy tools for teaching middle and high school students who struggle with word meaning, spelling, fluency, and comprehension. This course is intended for teachers who are familiar with multisensory, systematic reading instruction for younger children, and wish to apply these principles to older students, who need to get the most out of what they read. RI PDC’s and MA PDP’s available. For more details, click here.
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