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Study Skills and Test Prep – For School Districts

$500.00 – $1,000.00

This 10-week course is for individual schools (within DPS, Jeffco, Platte Canyon or Douglas Counties) to support study skills and test prep for SAT/PSAT. It includes one or two class periods per week at the school as well as all materials and 1:1 support for students who want extra help. For the Fall 2023 semester and the Spring 2024 semester, we will be following the schedule below. Week #1- SAT/PSAT Prep - Overview - importance of doing your best, all about the test (time per section, what it is assessing, etc.) Week #2 - SAT/PSAT Prep - Reading test strategies and practice Week #3 - SAT/PSAT Prep - English test strategies and practice, common misconceptions Week #4 - SAT/PSAT Prep - Math test strategies and practice Week #5 - SAT/PSAT Prep - Review strategies and improvements in scores, next steps and ways to study (Khan and College Board) Week #6 - Study Skills - Goal Setting, Importance of Doing our Best, and Getting Organized Week #7 - Study Skills - Focus and Concentration in Class Week #8 - Study Skills - Completing Assignments and Time Management Week #9 - Study Skills - Note Taking Skills / Reviewing Notes Daily Week #10 - Study Skills - Reviewing Goals, , Review importance, What’s working and what else is needed to improve

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SAT Preparation (SATURDAYS) – Maximize Your Score

$0.00 – $950.00

20% off this course when you sign up by September 10th. Use code: PREP20

Michelle is providing this instruction. She went through many hours of training with Princeton Review to be able to offer effective and comprehensive instruction to score highest scores on this important gateway exam. She's taught this course to individuals and school-wide while teaching in Denver, so is highly qualified to instruct your child to do their best.

Our class includes a pretest to determine baseline with specific strategies to maximize scores, test-taking strategies that statistically work, English grammar/common misconceptions, Reading Science/Social Studies text strategies that work, Math test strategies and content practice drills, post test to see growth and areas where students can study concepts for understanding outside of class.

Office Hours available after classes for students to get more individual attention.

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SAT Preparation (WEDNESDAYS) – Maximize Your Score

$0.00 – $950.00

20% off this course when you sign up by September 10th. Use code: PREP20

Michelle is providing this instruction. She went through many hours of training with Princeton Review to be able to offer effective and comprehensive instruction on this important gateway exam. She's taught this course to individuals and school-wide while teaching in Denver, so is highly qualified to instruct your child to do their best.

If your school is moving to a digital test, the test will be different this year. Our class includes a pretest to determine baseline with specific strategies to maximize scores, test-taking strategies that statistically work, English grammar/common misconceptions, Reading Science/Social Studies text strategies that work, Math test strategies and content practice drills, post test to see growth and areas where students can study concepts for understanding outside of class.

Office Hours available after classes for students to get more individual attention.

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IB/AP BIOLOGY – Test Preparation (THURSDAYS)

$0.00 – $895.00

20% off this course when you sign up by August 31st. Use code: PREP20

Michelle is providing this instruction. She has taught both IB Biology and IB Chemistry for many years in Denver, so she knows the content, the test, the strategies for taking the test and is more than highly qualified to instruct your child to do their best.

Passing the IB or AP Biology test can provide college credit, a financial savings of thousand of dollars, and a time savings of hundreds of hours. This class includes a pretest to determine baseline with specific strategies to maximize scores, and test-taking strategies that statistically work. We will focus on Biology concepts that are often challenging for students, including chemistry of macromolecules, cells and how they communicate, change and multiply, heredity, gene expression, evolution and ecology. We will offer in-person classes in Conifer, CO, and can be taken virtually based on your needs and location.

Office Hours available after classes for students to get more individual attention.

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IB/AP CHEMISTRY – Test Preparation (MONDAYS)

$0.00 – $895.00

20% off this course if you sign up by August 31st. Use code: PREP20

Michelle is providing this instruction. She has taught both IB Biology and IB Chemistry for many years in Denver, so she knows the content, the test, the strategies for taking the test and is more than highly qualified to instruct your child to do their best.

Passing the IB or AP Chemistry test can provide college credit, a financial savings of thousands of dollars, and a time savings of hundreds of hours. This class includes a pretest to determine baseline with specific strategies to maximize scores, and test-taking strategies that statistically work. We will focus on Chemistry concepts that are often challenging for students, including stoichiometry, kinetics, pH, thermodynamics, organic and more . We will offer in-person classes in Conifer, CO, and can be taken virtually based on your needs and location.

Office Hours available after classes for students to get more individual attention.

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IB/AP BIOLOGY – Test Preparation (TUESDAYS)

$0.00 – $895.00

20% off this course when you sign up by August 31st. Use code: PREP20

Michelle is providing this instruction. She has taught both IB Biology and IB Chemistry for many years in Denver, so she knows the content, the test, the strategies for taking the test and is more than highly qualified to instruct your child to do their best.

Passing the IB or AP Biology test can provide college credit, a financial savings of thousand of dollars, and a time savings of hundreds of hours. This class includes a pretest to determine baseline with specific strategies to maximize scores, and test-taking strategies that statistically work. We will focus on Biology concepts that are often challenging for students, including chemistry of macromolecules, cells and how they communicate, change and multiply, heredity, gene expression, evolution and ecology. We will offer in-person classes in Conifer, CO, and can be taken virtually based on your needs and location.

Office Hours available after classes for students to get more individual attention.

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IB/AP CHEMISTRY – Test Preparation (SATURDAYS)

$0.00 – $895.00

20% off this course if you sign up by August 31st. Use code: PREP20

Michelle is providing this instruction. She has taught both IB Biology and IB Chemistry for many years in Denver, so she knows the content, the test, the strategies for taking the test and is more than highly qualified to instruct your child to do their best.

Passing the IB or AP Chemistry test can provide college credit, a financial savings of thousands of dollars, and a time savings of hundreds of hours. This class includes a pretest to determine baseline with specific strategies to maximize scores, and test-taking strategies that statistically work. We will focus on Chemistry concepts that are often challenging for students, including stoichiometry, kinetics, pH, thermodynamics, organic and more . We will offer in-person classes in Conifer, CO, and can be taken virtually based on your needs and location.

Office Hours available after classes for students to get more individual attention.

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GED/HiSET Test Prep

$630.00

Want to move forward in your career or have always wanted to get your high school diploma? This is the class for you! It is for adults who did not receive a high school diploma or high school students looking for another way to graduate. We will provide specific support for the GED and HiSET exams, including practice tests and individual areas of need to pass the test. We will help you sign up for the test, and support you throughout the process even after our formal sessions are completed.

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Homeschool STEM Enrichment – High School PHYSICAL SCIENCE

$59.00 – $495.00
This class is for any high school student who wants to learn chemistry and physics from a licensed secondary education teacher who knows all of the cool things these subjects offer, as well as how to teach them to make them really fun and engaging. We can even apply grades to the student's work to report on transcripts if that is requested. If you are signing up 2 or more children from the same household, please use code MK10 (multiple kids) for a 10% discount! If the cost of this class is a barrier, scholarship funds are available for low-income families. Please contact us for details. Students will choose a particular phenomenon of interest which covers a great deal of the requirements of the Colorado Academic Standards and the Next Generation Science Standards. High school Physical Science covers both Chemistry and Physics.

Newton’s laws of motion and gravitation describe the relationships among forces acting on and between objects, their masses, and changes in their motion – but have limitations.

Matter has definite structure that determines characteristic physical and chemical properties

Matter can change form through chemical or nuclear reactions abiding by the laws of conservation of mass and energy

Atoms bond in different ways to form molecules and compounds that have definite properties

Energy exists in many forms such as mechanical, chemical, electrical, radiant, thermal, and nuclear, that can be quantified and experimentally determined

When energy changes form, it is neither created not destroyed; however, because some is necessarily lost as heat, the amount of energy available to do work decreases

We do have some grant money available for low-income families to use to supplement up to 80% of their tutoring costs, pending availability and proof of need.
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Homeschool STEM Enrichment – High School LIFE SCIENCE

$59.00 – $495.00
This class is for any high school student who wants to learn biology from a licensed secondary education teacher who knows all of the cool things these subjects offer, as well as how to teach them to make them really fun and engaging. We can even apply grades to the student's work to report on transcripts if that is requested. Students will choose a particular phenomenon of interest which covers a great deal of the requirements of the Colorado Academic Standards and the Next Generation Science Standards. High school Life Science covers Biology.

Matter tends to be cycled within an ecosystem, while energy is transformed and eventually exits an ecosystem

The size and persistence of populations depend on their interactions with each other and on the abiotic factors in an ecosystem

Cellular metabolic activities are carried out by biomolecules produced by organisms

The energy for life primarily derives from the interrelated processes of photosynthesis and cellular respiration. Photosynthesis transforms the sun’s light energy into the chemical energy of molecular bonds. Cellular respiration allows cells to utilize chemical energy when these bonds are broken.

Cells use the passive and active transport of substances across membranes to maintain relatively stable intracellular environments

Cells, tissues, organs, and organ systems maintain relatively stable internal environments, even in the face of changing external environments

Physical and behavioral characteristics of an organism are influenced to varying degrees by heritable genes, many of which encode instructions for the production of proteins

Multicellularity makes possible a division of labor at the cellular level through the expression of select genes, but not the entire genome

Evolution occurs as the heritable characteristics of populations change across generations and can lead populations to become better adapted to their environment

We do have some grant money available for low-income families to use to supplement up to 80% of their tutoring costs, pending availability and proof of need.
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Homeschool STEM Enrichment – High School Earth Science

$59.00 – $495.00
This class is for any high school student who wants to learn Earth Science (geology, astronomy, natural hazards) from a licensed secondary education teacher who knows all of the cool things these subjects offer, as well as how to teach them to make them really fun and engaging. We can even apply grades to the student's work to report on transcripts if that is requested. Students will choose a particular phenomenon of interest which covers a great deal of the requirements of the Colorado Academic Standards and the Next Generation Science Standards. High school Earth science covers the processes and interactions of Earth's systems and the structure and dynamics of Earth and other objects in space. This includes:

The history of the universe, solar system and Earth. As part of the solar system, Earth interacts with various extraterrestrial forces and energies such as gravity, solar phenomena, electromagnetic radiation, and impact events that influence the planet’s geosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere in a variety of ways.

The theory of plate tectonics helps to explain geological, physical, and geographical features of Earth.

Climate is the result of energy transfer among interactions of the atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, and biosphere.

There are costs, benefits, and consequences of exploration, development, and consumption of renewable and nonrenewable resources.

The interaction of Earth's surface with water, air, gravity, and biological activity causes physical and chemical changes

Natural hazards have local, national and global impacts such as volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, and thunderstorms.
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Homeschool STEM Enrichment – Grades 6-8

$55.00 – $459.00

This class is for any middle school student who wants to learn physics, life or Earth sciences from a licensed secondary education teacher who knows all of the cool things these subjects offer, as well as how to teach them to make them really fun and engaging. We can even apply grades to the student's work to report on transcripts if that is requested. For the middle school standards, we'll choose one topic from each of the three sciences, or pick one of these sciences and dive deeply into its specifics. We will use or develop a phenomenon-based study using student questions to drive our investigations. Physical Science: Matter, atoms, density, waves (sound, electromagnetic, seismic) Life Science: Environments, habitats, populations, survival, ecosystems, human activities which are impacting these ecosystems, genes and traits Earth Systems Science: Volcanoes, weather, solar system, seasons, Moon phases

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