Math At Home provides an educational service aimed at supplementing and complementing classroom and textbook learning.

Math At Home offers a unique experience that quickly guides the users to the solutions they need.

Math At Home is a division of Math School (180 Steeles Avenue West, Suite 212, Thornhill, Ontario L4J 2L1, tel: (905) 881-7424). This website was created by a group of highly qualified teachers under the supervision of Leon Issaev, PhD.

Math At Home was born out of the need for improved math education and the incredible power of the Internet.

In our increasingly competitive environment possesing excellent educational credentials has become a basic requirement to achieve success in one's career and life. The demands and constraints placed on the teachers and students are enormous and for a student to excell at education, supplementing their learning at school is very essential.

http://www.mathathome.com/

180 Steeles Avenue West, Suite 212
Thornhill, Ontario L4J 2L1



SHiNE is the support group you've been looking for! We welcome home educating families in the Edmonton area.

You will network with other home educating families by engaging in discussions on our members' forum, attending some diverse field trips, participating in family activities, and reading and contributing to our fantastic newsletter.

SHiNE is committed to providing professional development from a variety of sources and has a well-stocked library which carries not only books and tapes but other resources for educating ourselves and our children!

Whether you are a seasoned home educator or just thinking about home education, SHiNE is an excellent place to network with other home educating families.

Why Join a Support Group?

Why Join SHiNE?

Becoming a new member of SHiNE

The SHiNE Mission Statement:

The Society for the Homeschool Network of Edmonton is a non-profit support group whose mission is to enable families to develop educational methods that best suit their philosophies, beliefs, and lifestyle.

# To promote the availability of a support network and to create a community of openness, acceptance , and belonging that includes all people interested in home education.

# To recognize and respect the strength of our diversity in learning styles, instructional methods, philosophy, choice of resources, religious and political affiliation and family lifestyles.

# To facilitate opportunities for a variety of friendly, educational, recreational and social activities for group members and/or their families.

# To facilitate opportunities for parent to parent support that may include support group meetings, lectures, panels, retreats, informal gatherings, one to one contact, egroups, newsletters, conferences, etc.

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SHiNE
PO Box 3173
Sherwood Park, AB
T8H 2T2


The phone rang in the Day's office "Wise Choice Educational Services, Mrs. Day speaking, how can I help you?". An unsure voice replies "Good morning, my name is Mrs. Smith. I have heard you speak at a conference two years ago. At that time I really enjoyed listening to the different characteristics of a child with learning problems and thought that many applied to our son but my husband wanted to wait. I used the best curriculum and taught him all the phonics I could but he does not retain it like the other children do.

The past year was very difficult. He is getting really frustrated and so do we. We need help." Or "My name is Mrs. Holland. I have homeschooled my children for the past six years and never went to your workshops because I never thought it was for us... until last week when a friend loaned me one of your tapes. I need you to see my son. " These are typical phone calls that David and Suzanne receive. Suzanne understands very well the period of time somebody often needs before asking for help.

Suzanne, a French Canadian from Quebec, was working as a principal in a public school when she accepted a position as girl head counsellor in a summer camp for socially challenged children. David, an Ontarian teacher, shared the responsibility as head counsellor for the boys.

They were married one year later. They both enjoyed teaching until they worked full time as associate director of the camp ministering. They started a private practice of assessment and remediation for children with reading and attention difficulties.

When their first child was five, Suzanne recognized signs of learning disabilities in his drawings. The child's drawing of himself is a useful psychometric tool which reveals his own awareness of his body in space and yields information on the maturity of the central nervous system to be able to learn.

Their son was not learning efficiently in spite of the best educational tools, like one of the best phonic program, and the one-on-one attention that the parents were providing through their homeschooling effort. Unfortunately, David and Suzanne's denial of the problem did not allow them to help their son until they honestly faced it, two years later. Psychometric tests showed that their son was gifted in spite of some learning inefficiencies.

Acknowledging their need of additional training was their second step. They were determined to address the root causes of the problem instead of trying to compensate for his learning weaknesses. Suzanne's research led them to choose a neurodevelopmental approach to learning. Following the home-based program, the increase in their son's learning processing skills was amazing.

The test results confirmed significant improvement. When he was in grade 7, he obtained 99% on a written composition done for a course that he took at a local private school. The results are lasting. For the past nine years Suzanne has used these techniques with hundreds of children and has witnessed exciting improvement which would have not been possible without working on the development of the central nervous system's learning functions in conjunction with the academic.

http://www.wisechoiceeducationalservices.com/index.html

Wise Choice Educational Services
29 Albert St.
Barrie, Ontario L4M 3S7