LEAP

LEAP’s tutoring is individual because your child is an individual. LEAP will consult with you as well as your child’s academic team at school, if desired. Together we will set goals for instruction and match your child with an ideal tutor with whom they can build a positive and caring relationship. Our enrollment is rolling, year-round and you do not have to sign lengthy and costly contracts for service. As long as instruction is working and needed, we continue on your terms.

Elementary Tutoring

Most students needing assistance in elementary school can benefit from improving the reading, writing or math foundations for future success. Whether your school is using DIBELS, DRA, Guided Reading, traditional math or Investigations math, we are prepared to work with your child.

Middle School/Junior High Tutoring

The transition to middle school and/or junior high does not come without challenges personally and academically for most students. This new territory can be the first bump in the academic road for many students who perhaps never had to study before to be successful. LEAP’s assistance with this age group concentrates individual attention on specific classes as well as on developing proper study habits that will transfer into high school as well.

Developing a solid study habits foundation is crucial to academic success. Having the right strategies for an individual student, can not only improve academic success, but also cut down on study time. Students in grades 5 and 6 are taught strategies which center on personal learning style, organization, time management, reading, test taking, memory building, teacher pleasing behaviors and goal setting. This LEAP developed curriculum can be taught with individual tutoring or one of our small-group, 5 session classes. LEAP classes held at our Mason location always have 10 or fewer students. Classes are held August through April and registration forms are available on the LEAP website. Students are accepted first come, first serve via mail.

LEAP has developed our own, unique curriculum that can be taught individually or in one of our small-group (10 or fewer students) classes. As LEAP is the anti-franchise, you will find our program to be affordable and personal.

At the center of our approach are these core beliefs:

• Prep can benefit All students
• Pupil to teacher ratio should be low
• Periods of lengthy lecture are exhausting
• Practice should be pencil to paper just like the tests
• Parent involvement makes a difference which is why parents get weekly emails
• Practice for one test benefits both
• Practice, practice, practice is the key!

LEAP has a two-phased approach to ACT and SAT preparation. Our philosophy allows students, in a small group setting, to get some test preparation without committing to a high number of sessions and costly fees while still allowing for intense preparation for those who need and want such. Families who desire only individual instruction may choose this option and forego the phase one class.

• Phase One: Strategies Course

The course consists of four – 90 minute strategy sessions: English, Mathematics, Reading/Science, and Essay. Each strategy session includes introduction to the ACT and SAT tests, explanation of strategies for particular questions, group practice of strategies, independent practice and question/answer time. The class also includes the administration of a three-hour ACT retired test that is scored and students can keep reviewing. At the conclusion of the course, students will have completed at least 3 full ACT’s and 1 SAT. All courses limited to 10 students, but we offer several opportunities each time to accommodate many students.

• Phase Two: ACT/ SAT Individual Tutoring

After students have taken their first test and have received their scores, students may register for individual tutoring to strengthen weak areas prior to their next testing attempt. The advantage here is highly individualized instruction to meet the student’s needs for college entrance.

Registration starts one month prior to each class and is first come, first serve by mail. Registration forms are available on the LEAP website. There is at least one class available prior to each test date year-round. Classes are held at LEAP’s Mason site or your site. Contact LEAP for more information on our Remote Location Program.

Working in conjunction with private preschools, this course benefits non-reading preschool students. These students are indeed "Emergent Readers". Through hands-on activities students will strengthen the pre-reader foundation, so they become ready to read.

LEAP Ahead Summer Tutoring benefits students who want to catch-up, maintain their success or build new skills to pull-ahead in the new school year in the fall. Summer, when there is no schoolwork, is an ideal time for addressing past learning gaps which hamper students' success in school.

This works just as our Individual Tutoring during the school year does with the added advantage of a faster pace and more ground covered.

Each August, LEAP hosts students in all grades for small-group instruction focused on school readiness. LEAP’s classes in school readiness, reading, study habits and ACT-SAT preparation are a great way to kick-off the school year.