Katy’s Finest Private Academic Coaching
412 Park Grove Drive, Katy, Texas 77450
- What happens when you secure the best academic coach in Katy? You access a true, highly-qualified educator who focuses on the student. Someone who promotes authentic learning. This someone targets the whole student, even while pursuing standardized test goals (aligned with TEKS and College Board standards). Click here for reviews from clients.
- Read below to find out what is behind authentic learning experiences. Authentic learning happens when students truly learn. They learn because of highly-qualified coaches who provide rich unique experiences. This is the opposite of a typical content-specific tutor. AWE academic coaching is a cut above all the rest. Only when someone passionately finds the exact learning niche will parents see real results. A highly-qualified coach who is learned in higher education inspires students. Only when someone strives with the student will this be the student’s finest learning experience.
Let Your Hopes . . . Shape Your Future. – MLK, Jr.
According to Martin Luther King, Jr., “Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” Hope – even though invisible – walks hand-in-hand with us as we learn. As hope moves with us, it also opens up the vertical rise of ideas from the intellect. In this way, an intellectual ascension of ideas reaches an apex. In other words, we might imagine an intellectual space in time packed with the same intensity, the same hopes of a rising phoenix, rising up out of the ashes. Ironically, when we imagine our intellect, there’s no need to imagine anymore. That’s because when this happens, we live in the present. This is today. The finest coach in Katy is right here, doing this every day with the students who walk through the doors of AWEducating.
A phoenix symbolizes the rise of hope given to students who receive AWE coaching. In essence, hope-building intertwined with skill-building creates real success: ideas rise up from books to meet student prior knowledge. As young minds fantasize – what would otherwise be – their unattainable dreams, these empowered students confidently sail – with experiential learning under their belts – across the uncharted seas of upward mobility.
Actually, AWE lessons facilitate a type of meeting of the minds between students and the world around them. During lesson work, hope-filled dreams transform into a beautiful place for student self-realization. Here, in working with the finest coach in Katy, students enter into this beautiful place to receive specialized services from an Ed.D. professional. In a nutshell, each student works with an experienced, highly-qualified educator who provides a unique learning experience – as unique as each student.
Hopes and Dreams
As a matter of fact, the finest coach in Katy delivers services to specific groups of students. Frequently, AWE students include English language learners, gifted/talented, or visual-spatial learners. Sometimes, students fall at opposite ends of the learning spectrum. Equally precious, these students are diagnosed with ADD or ADHD. In other words, authentic learning occurs with not only high achievers or highly gifted children, but also with low-performers, the unmotivated or under-motivated learners. At AWE, every student reaches optimal skill development. Fortunately, each AWE lesson is delivered by an Ed.D. professional. Essentially, the very finest coach in the area, views students holistically. Likewise, through private lessons the academic coach applies educational know-how to unleash unique potential.
Types of Students
- High Achievers: Students who make consistently high grades and acclimate well to classroom procedures and discussions. These students possess a high level of modeling that benefits the social learning of other students in the classroom.
- Gifted Learners: Students who think more complex with abstract inferences and diverse perceptions.
- Visual-Spatial Learners: A varied group of students who may be a) visual, not auditory; b) spatial, not sequential; c) holistic, not detail-oriented; d) focused on ideas, not format; e) seek patterns; f) divergent, not convergent; g) sensitive and intense; or who may possess variable ‘asynchronous’ development. Source: Visual-Spatial Learners website
- Low-Performers: Students who lack passing grades in English language, reading or writing. This also includes students who did not pass the reading or writing sections of the STAAR exam.
- Unmotivated: Students who appear to lack any drive or passion for learning.
- Under-Motivated: Students who appear to have a minimal drive for learning, want to learn, but lack the deep passion to create enthusiasm that highly-motivated learners possess.
During a typical lesson, coaching credentials brings know-how to each English Language Arts lesson. Oftentimes, this includes reading. Other times, writing or literature, even AP Literature or AP Language assignments. Each spring, some AWE students prepare for EOC, ISEE, STAAR, PSAT, SAT and ACT practice tests. Working on high-stakes tests with students makes AWE lessons a rewarding, dynamic enterprise. Real results from real students. In summary, AWE lessons are informative and effective, yet wondrous and enjoyable.
Furthermore, students are often surprised at how time flies. Put another way, AWE students grapple with new ideas as easily as puppies romp with new toys.
SAT Success Story: The Adventure of a Lifetime
“Some adventures lead us to our destiny,” penned C.S. Lewis in The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.
“In the summer of 2013, a junior in high school requested SAT reading and writing lessons. Once a week, we worked together over that summer. To provide some backstory, Larissa (pseudonym) had already taken the SAT and scored high in the math section – a strong subject for her. In the spring of 2014, I received a most memorable text, ‘We did it.’ Larissa wrote. Amazingly, she aced both the reading and writing sections of the SAT. Larissa scored higher on those sections than she did in math. Vividly, I remember thinking to myself, ‘YOU did it.’ To this day, I am thrilled in a way words alone could not express. Following suit, Larissa is currently a junior enrolled in the UT-PACT BA/MD program at the University of Texas-Dallas,” – Dr. Jerome.
High-Stakes SAT: The Real Deal
| 11th Grader | SAT (1600 point scale) Reading, Writing, Math | 11th Grader | SAT (1600 point scale) Reading, Writing, Math |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 2016 Prior score | 1300 (PSAT+) | Prior score | 1460 (SAT+) |
| AWE coaching | After weekly 1-hour lessons: | AWE coaching | After 13 lessons: |
| June 2016 | 1400/1520 (PSAT*) | May 2017 Final SAT | 1550/1600 (SAT+) |
| July 2016 | 1500/1520 (PSAT*) | ||
| August 2016 | 1500/1520 (PSAT*) | ||
| September 2016 | 1430/1520 (PSAT*) | ||
| September 2016 | 1500/1520 (PSAT+) | ||
| December 2016 | 1470/1600 (SAT+) 23/24 Essay | ||
| Final SAT superscore | 1480/1600 (SAT+) |
*practice tests/+official tests
Project-Based Activity
RIDDLE: What do you call something that is written about a favorite story, then attached to butcher size paper, rolled up and tied with a ribbon?
AWE 4th-grader knows the answer from first-hand experience!
In summary, this project-based activity turns a typical writing exercise into a piece of art. Initially, the prompt encompasses the use of realia. In this case, it was a favorite book of literature. Next, the student applies expository writing notes. From notes, the student chooses the cause and effect form of writing to show a chain of events. The chain shows one cause that leads to one effect. That effect subsequently turns into another cause that leads to another effect, and so forth. Finally, with butcher paper backing, some glue dots and a ribbon, the essay turns into a scroll. Common Core Standards: CCSS.RL.4.1, RL.4.2, W.4.1.A, W.4.2, W.4.10
The Tales of Despereaux
ANSWER: an essay scroll
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“With so many outstanding students comes the adventure of telling so many unbelievable stories. Actually, there are too many stories to mention them all. Each invidual story is precious and memorable. In unique ways, each one is an inspiration. It is so gratifying that some of our future leaders have found a way to cross my path while on the adventure of his or her life.” — Honored to work with students, “Dr. Diane” Jerome
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