Educational Planning

PHONE: 503.253.3486
FAX: 503.252.2132
EMAIL: info@EducationSoaring.com

Education Soaring helps parents make the intricate and crucial decisions necessary to place their children on the best possible educational path. 

Education Soaring informs parents of local, state, and national resources that help meet their children's short and long-term educational needs.

Education Soaring provides student assessment services, advocacy support, and on-site teacher conferencing to help parents secure what their children need today to prepare for a future of happiness and success.

Consultation

Education Soaring provides academic tutoring for students from kindergarten through 8th grade.

Goals are 1) to help ensure mastery of local and national standards OR 2) to raise achievement to match ability. Remediation and acceleration are both offered.

Tutoring is available in the following subjects:

• MATHEMATICS
• READING
• WRITTEN LANGUAGE
• SPEAKING
• HANDWRITING
• SPELLING
• COMPUTER SKILLS
• HOMEWORK

Instructor Kristine Fosback holds a Masters Degree in education with an emphasis on mathematics. She also holds a Reading Endorsement enabling her to specialize in reading instruction for students through the twelfth grade. Kristine's Oregon Teaching License has been current since 1977. References will be provided on request.

Features

• Prescriptive instruction based on a current assessment and analysis of achievement, is matched with a student's ability, school and state benchmarks, and parents' academic expectations.
  
  
• If recent achievement scores are not available or not reflective of current achievement, the KTEA (Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement), Brief or Comprehensive Forms, or KeyMath-2 can be administered and a detailed error analysis completed.
  
  
• Lesson plans include a list of skills and concepts that have been introduced, practiced, mastered, and reviewed during tutoring sessions.
  
  
• Parent and student communication is frequent and specific. School communication, initiated by parents, is available.
  
  
• Instruction is delievered in the privacy of the child's home. (A parent must be present in the home during instruction.)
  
  
• Scheduling is flexible with evening and weekend times available.
  

Fees

Through June 10, 2011

• $35-$40 per 60-minute session ($40/hr)
• $52.50 per 90-minute session ($35/hr)
• $70 per 2-hour session ($35/hr)

Note: Some fees may apply for items such as special books, manipulatives, or other recommended resources.
Note: Travel fees may apply for services delivered outside the Portland/Vancouver area.

WE CAN HELP you make the intricate and crucial decisions necessary to place your child on the best possible educational path. 

WE CAN GUIDE you toward resources that meet your child’s immediate and long-term educational needs at school, at home and in the community.

WE CAN PROVIDE student assessment services, educational program planning, connections to valuable resources, advocacy support and on-site teacher conferencing to help you secure what your child needs today to prepare for a future of happiness and success.

ASSESSMENT SERVICES
Fees will vary. Call for Fee Schedule

Our assessment takes an objective look at your child’s past and present academic achievement compared to grade level norms and his or her tested abilities.  Information is gathered regarding your child’s preferred learning style, non-academic strengths and weaknesses, past and present interests and goals, satisfaction with current placement, and other pertinent information.

Education Soaring offers screenings, achievement testing, intelligence testing and other kinds of formal and informal assessments.

If requested, we can refer you to professionals such as psychologists, vision, hearing and speech specialists, or others whom we regard as the best in their fields and would serve your child expertly.

• EDUCATIONAL ADVOCACY BINDER
  • The portfolio is organized for documents and other evidence that identify and support the child's educational needs. District and state policies, state mandates, local resources, etc. are included in the binder.
• OFFICE MEETING
  • Review school and medical reports, evaluations, report cards, work samples and other relevant documents.
  • Identify short and long-term educational and social/emotional goals and redefine them as needed.
  • Identify obstacles that have prevented (or may prevent) the child from meeting short and long term goals.
  • Present programming and informational options that can be implemented immediately. These may include, but are not limited to, referrals to specialists, connecting parents to local, state and online resources, provision of reading material, connecting parents with other parents who share similar challenges.
  • Address additional areas of concern.
• FOLLOW-UP
  • Sixty days of follow-up emails and telephone calls to be initiated by the parent. This is an important component of the consultation process since success depends in large part on parent/school communications.

Your child’s current educational placement is reviewed and matched to his or her identified needs.  We may conclude that your child is receiving educational programming that is serving him or her well.  But if unmet needs are identified, we work with you to formulate an optimal education plan for your child.  

If your child is achieving below grade level in one or more areas, we can suggest program options designed to raise academic achievement.  If it appears that your child is not achieving to his or her potential and it is unclear why, we may recommend that more in-depth evaluations be conducted.  If requested, we can refer you to professionals such as psychologists, vision specialists, or other specialists whom we regard as the best in their fields and would serve your child expertly.

If we conclude that your child is academically underchallenged, we will recommend enrichment or acceleration in regular, supplemental or alternative school settings. Supplementary programming, which we can assist you in accessing for your child, might include distance learning or local opportunities.

We help communicate your child’s educational needs to those who work with him or her in academic settings. When we consult with educators and parents, we do so in a mutually supportive manner in order to ensure that a child’s best possible learning environment is secured. Our attendance at conferences is always prefaced with a cordial letter to the school and parents defining our role as an advocate for the child rather than as an adversary of the school.We help parents understand the meanings behind terms used by educators. We show parents how to respond to educators orally and in writing in ways that emphasize collaboration and increase children's educational options rather than decrease them.