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About Us and our Programs:
Established in 2018, we focus on providing best small group tutoring class to K-12 students in our community. Our featured subjects include:
- Robotic Coding, Python programming.
- English Reading & Writing, Intensive Reading.
- Public Speech & Debate League.
- Match specialty: Beast Academy & AMC 8/10, 12.
- Second Language: Chinese, Spanish.
- Arts.
Our 2021 Summer Class starts from May 31 to August 2021. To protect our teachers and students from spread of COVID-19, our classes are offered online with Zoom and Google Classroom. We also strive to achieve best learning experience with:
- Arranging free pre-enrollment assessment and evaluation for proper level placement.
- Connecting students to our professional and experienced local elite teachers.
- Up to 8 students in small group based class.
- Dedicatedly designed curriculum for providing a warm and creative environment.
- Regular feedback to parents with periodically review of student's learning progress.
About our English Writing & Reading Program
Led by local professional and experienced ELAR teachers, this class uses our delicately developed curriculum uses multiple top rated ELAR books to improve and master various writing skills. This 6-levels class is designed for Grade 1 to Grade 10 students.
Our objective and teaching methodology:
Quick write / vocabulary / grammar / writing lesson / class writing / independent writing / homework review
- Each class session learn 10-20 English words with Greek and Latin roots.
- Extended learning of words related phrases, grammar with writing practices.
- Interactive practices with teachers and groups members, with the quick writing and practice games.
About our Intensive Reading Program
Taught by professional ELAR teachers with multiple years experience, this program help students to deep dive into various fiction and non-fiction literature books. This 5-levels program enables students to develop reading habits, explore modern reading materials and contents. Our ultimate goal is to build solid foundation for students' comprehension and communication skills from below aspects:
- Pre-reading: Introduction to book cover page, author and story background.
- Independent preview: Students read the book charters with pre-allocated outline and questions.
- In class discussion: Group member presents his/her own understanding and answers, to develop independent critical thinking and communication skills.
- Learn how to review and extract the main ideas from book chapters.
- Understand the vocabulary with contexts and rhetoric, learn grammar with chapter reading and after class book review assignment.
About our Robotic Coding and Python program
- Learning Lego EV3 Robot building and coding. Note during online class we use Virtual EV3 Robot.
- Programming with EV3 MindStorms programming.
- Understand mechanical transformation, sensor, motor for digital and analog signal processing.
- Participate the WRO (World Robotic Olympiad) robot coding competition.
Ms. Logan graduated with a Bachelor of Science from Texas Christian University. She has taught for 29 years in the Lovejoy and Plano school districts. Mrs. Logan has 7 years of experience teaching EV3 Mindstorms robotics programming in the STEM program in Lovejoy ISD, as well as after school robotics clubs and summer school. She has also trained other teachers in other districts and has presented at the Texas Computer Education Association state convention on programming and robotics in the classroom. Prior to that she worked as a gifted specialist in math, science and language arts. Mrs. Logan was also the gifted and talented district testing specialist in Lovejoy ISD. In Jan 2020, she led three teams of students from STEAM Learning Club to join 2020 TCEA competition in DFW and won 1st, 3rd and 4th places!
About our Teacher - Ms. Logan
About our Python introductory coding Program
- Introduction, and Python programming environment setup (Windows Recommended).
- Python data types, variables, numbers and Strings.
- Input and Output with Python data variables
- Define, use and data process in Python lists
- Define, use and data process in Python tuples and maps
- Python logic control - Conditions and loops
- Reuse your code - Python Functions and modules.
- Python Graphics and Gaming - Introduction and libraries
- Game programming project
About our teacher Mr. Gendron
Jonathan got his masters in economics at the University of Maine, minor in computer information systems at Towson University, and will begin a PhD in economics at Virginia Tech this upcoming fall.
During his studies, he has been tutoring since 2014 freelance and briefly for the University of Maine as well as Towson University. He has used Python to create advanced graphs, basic data analysis, web scraping, and more. He also has extensive experience with Stata, R, MATLAB, and Java.
When he isn’t working, Jonathan spends his free time hiking, building Legos, and enjoying time with those close.
About our Public Speaking and Debate Program
Mrs. Morgan has a BS in Business Administration from the University of Southern California. She has been teaching speech and debate since 2008 and her curricula in these domains has been sold around the world through her Speakers League company. Ms. Morgan has helped hundreds of students improve their confidence, presentation techniques, mental agility, critical thinking, leadership, organizational skills, speech writing, and meeting management skills. Her son learned speech and debate from her and was a National Champion college debater at SMU and has won speaking contests.
Junior Speakers League: For Grade 1-4
Speakers League: For Grade 5+
Junior Speakers League clubs (recommended for children ages 7-9) are a great place to begin learning public speaking skills.
The club meetings are very similar in format to Speakers League meetings, with opportunities for impromptu speaking, prepared speeches, and speech evaluations, but the club Chairperson is more hands-on in JSL, making sure the members are ready for, and understand what’s going on at the meetings.
The Member Handbook is simpler in JSL and the members have a worksheet for all speeches they give, to help them achieve the goals of the speech, for example using gestures or vocal variety or visual aids. Like Speakers League, JSL is a progressively-challenging environment to learn public speaking skills and meeting management.
There are three levels in Junior Speakers League – Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced. To move from one level to the next, members must successfully give all six speeches in that level, and do each role at the meeting (like Evaluator, Vote Counter, Timekeeper, MC, etc.) successfully, at least once, during that level.
Although Junior Speakers League clubs are adult led, the presence of a parent or other adult aide may be required to ensure any needs are met that might arise for the member. Additionally, parents are expected to ensure that their children are prepared for their roles at meetings.
About our Math Specialty program
Learn math from rigorous, beautifully illustrated guidebooks. Reinforce and master concepts with hundreds of practice problems, puzzles, and games. With AOPS Beast Academy books and interactive carton style class , to introduce and demonstrate math concepts.
- Constantly and consistently review and expand math concepts in each unit, to build coherent math background.
- Organically develop interests and understanding to complicate math topics.
- Selected scenario based workbook for students' practice and parents' review.
About our teacher:
Ms. Harmon received both her Master’s Degree in Education and Bachelor’s Degree in Liberal Studies from Brandman University. She has been teaching 3rd-8th grade in the classroom setting for 6 years. She taught 3rd grade GATE in Lovejoy ISD and currently teaching math for 7PAP & 8th graders in Frisco ISD. Ms. Harmon is ESL and GT certified teacher who has strong passion to go further on the path of education. Majored in Instructional Technology – very well versed in all forms of technology, as well as Google certified educator, she is definitely perfect fit for online education.
About our MLP Chinese language program
The Ma Liping Chinese Class is taught by Ms. Lin and his team who has been teaching Chinese in China and the United States for more than 20 years. It combines the characteristics of children with different ages and Chinese proficiency, teaches students in accordance with their aptitude, and teaches fun, so that children can lay a good Chinese foundation , Feel the profoundness of Chinese culture.
Teaching mode and goals:
Ma Liping Grade 1-4-Intensive Literacy Stage
[Objective] Recognize a large number of characters, learn 1500 commonly used Chinese characters, cultivate a sense of language, and lay a foundation for reading and writing.
- Take nursery rhymes and prose as the carrier, use catchy and interesting verses to guide children to recite, and gradually cultivate correct pronunciation and sense of language.
- Decode Chinese characters, introduce Chinese character stories, guide students to understand the mystery of Chinese character creation, stimulate students' interest in recognizing characters, provide memory clues, and break the psychological barrier that Chinese characters are difficult to learn.
- Student-centered classrooms are interspersed with refined and effective teaching games to fully mobilize students' learning initiative and turn passive listening to active participation.
- Advanced network teaching management system. Use science and technology to create a language environment, students can complete their own learning happily at the front desk, and the teacher's backstage analysis data is aimed at teaching!
Ma Liping Grades 5-8-Reading and Writing Stage
[Objective] To consolidate the learned 1500 commonly used Chinese characters, enter the long-form reading, learn the Chinese character input method, and be able to write in Chinese.
- Using reading "Journey to the West" rewritten with common characters and Zheng Yuanjie's fairy tales as a link, establish a connection between Chinese and English learning, reproduce 1,500 Chinese characters learned with great intensity, consolidate what has been learned, and enhance the sense of learning.
- Know the traditional characters, understand the living environment of overseas Chinese, and be able to deal with the daily life of overseas Chinese with the Chinese. Learn to be useful and enhance students' enthusiasm for using Chinese.
- Learn Chinese character input method, meeting things, writing a process, a story and characters. Combine classroom assignments and after-school essays, learn the examples first and then the assignments.
- The focus of teaching is from text -> literature -> culture, step by step to guide students to experience the profoundness of Chinese culture.
