Hello Santa Barbara Home Schooling Families!
We’re excited to be offering an in-person Chemistry class for the ’24-’25 school year!
Our hands-on class will prepare students for advanced chemistry concepts through hands-on experiments, deep thinking activities, and practical applications!
The class is A-G aligned for charter schools. Middle school students are welcome to attend with essential algebra skills.
Come learn about atoms build up the universe!
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We’re excited to be offering in person and remote pre-calculus using Larson’s text book. We meet in person or remote twice a week. This is the perfect class to take in high school so you can be ready to take a fast paced college class.
We’re getting ready for next school year with some amazing classes! We have the following classes confirmed:
Are you a student at a charter school? Consider joining these classes as part of a learning pod! 4 students in a pod can enroll in a third class on the same day for free!
Groups of 4 students can get an extra class free when you enroll a group of four or more students! Choose from any of our classes offered on Mondays / Wednesdays or Tuesdays / Thursdays and learn with your friends!
Pod must be registered by July 31 and each student must request enrichment certificates starting for August ’24 and commit for the fall semester or entire school year at $360 per month per student.
Offer valid for Charter School Students only.
Hello Homeschooling Families! We know that you’re making plans for next year so you enjoy the summer! We are, too! We’ll be sharing updates over the next few weeks as we gather what classes the community is looking for!
Have an idea? Reach out to us!
Individualized Educational Services is proud to support our newest community group, Homeschool Community 805! We know all of our homeschooling families are already planning for next year, and we’re happy show you how we can help!
Please join us from noon to 3pm to learn about our homeschooling classes, tutoring, and family coaching that we offer to families year round. We’re already an approved vendor for Blue Ridge and Heartland Charter Schools, and we’re ready to on-bard with more!
Refreshments, snacks, and kids’ activities will be provided!
We wanted to create a business motto not just because our consultant told us to, but to create inspiration for anyone that we interact with. Our own staff members. Teachers, principals, and other staff at schools. Parents. Most of all our students! It unifies us all together that what we are not doing right now is not just for a letter grade on an assignment, class grade, report card grade, transcript, or even a diploma. We are educating For the Future. Jobs, careers, relationships, getting health care, keeping your sanity, and dealing with all life has in store for us, in the future.
It is a cognitive distortion to predict the future. So we won’t do it. Moore’s Law continues to hold true that technology doubles its abilities every two years, so just knowing how computers currently work will not be enough. Weather reports are barely accurate past three days. So how do we get ready For the Future?
It’s as simple as teaching to look at the weather forecast before deciding what to wear! Rather than an adult dictate some knowledge, teach how to find the answer and make a decision! It really is that simple, but it does take rethinking how teachers come off as the only validator of right and wrong (and how students resort to AI to hope it’s answers are right enough to sneak by).
By teaching a process, we create empowerment for our students. We create confidence that they can accomplish their goals. We give them the space to take charge of their own learning. And if they need guidance and support, we are always there when they need it. We are not the analog of online learning platforms where the binary nature of computers is right or wrong.
By teaching critical thinking, decision making, cause and effect, and other process skills, we are preparing our children to be ready for what ever problems that may arise in their lives. Life has known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns. It is only by trusting our children with their own decision making that they will be truly prepared. Will they only know 3×4 is 12 or will they have a skill set ready to take on what ever the future may have on hand?
We invite you to learn with us, For the Future.
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is currently the longest recognized word in English, and if you use root words, it breaks down and self defines. It’s about the pneumonia you get from breathing in tiny glass particles from a volcano. This is a wonderful strategy for not only reading, but for approaching education as a whole.
Educational Psychology is the resulting discipline of understanding assessment results and explaining how we learning. We specialize in putting the pieces together and understanding how a limited working memory may be making longer math problems difficult or how visual-spatial issues makes cause and effect difficult to understand. Being able to know what to do with assessment results is critical. While IEPs find areas of deficit, we take an action based approach. Your child took time to complete those test, so the adults should make time to to put in the same effort to come up with a meaningful plan that creates a purposeful plan for success! We do this by carefully looking at processing abilities and aligning them to academic needs. By piecing the information together, we can work deliberately to achieve results. This is sometimes referred to as educational therapy, but we proudly place it in the forefront of our BRAIN programs.
How is this different from neuro-educational strategies? Well, this is what we actually do! Our research was prompted by a wonderful speech pathologist telling us to teach “transitive verbs first.” (Those are verbs that we use that must have an object). Why is this so important? Well, it requires something observable to be done based upon a student’s thinking. Consider the verb “to carry.” You cannot use it without identifying what to carry. “Carry the bag of groceries” makes sense while “You carry” does not. Other verbs are met with minimal thinking and are typically based in habit, like “eat” and “sit” (these are intransitive verbs, if you were wondering). This led us to the wonderful understanding and appreciation of processed based learning!
Process based learning is as simple as “show me 3×4” rather than “What is 3×4?” The former requires an explanation, with modeling, rather than the rote response as required by the later. Memorizing is hard. That’s not to say we don’t want to build fluency and automaticity, but we don’t learn by memorizing. We learn by trial and error. Which is a process.
We also build instruction through the remediation of specific processing needs, essential to neuro-placidity. Why let a child struggle with their visual perceptual skills when we can improve them through game like activities or with the help of our local Developmental Optometrist? By improving the processing, we can help improve the actual process of learning rather than just continuing to support a deficit. We also have strategies for working memory, language, and more, but we’ll follow up with those later.
We’re a big fan of educational kinesiology, too. Creating movement rather than just sitting and clicking a mouse. (We’re looking at you, Kahn Academy. Your proof of concept was in the pandemic!)
If you’d like to know more about how we can apply these to your child’s learning, please reach out to us today!
