Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond. Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. — Mark Twain

Dear Educator,

Welcome, school year 2006–2007. Welcome graduating class 2019. Wow!

The summers keep getting shorter.

I spent my summer writing...rewriting, revising, and updating our great book, Study Skills for Student Success (this month's Featured Publication)...and writing my new book (published by Adams Media, due on the market in July, 2007)...Home, Sweet Homework! I am a writer; I enjoy writing, but I'm ready for a break from it. To break from my writing, I'm jumping into in-services and conferences. I think I need to re-think my life...lately you could legitimately call me a "workaholic." I promise to take a real break for Christmas.

It's time to register for our October workshops. I'll see you in Huntington Beach October 10, 11, and 12...Then again in November!

It only takes two days into the new year for summer to be forgotten and for us to be full swing into another year of educating youth. The new year brings new visions of what we can accomplish. The new year brings new challenges. The new year brings new solutions. Check out this month's Feature Article, So Every Student Succeeds, for SCORE's formula for success.

This year, may all your classes be your favorites. May all your students succeed. May all your graduates SCORE...for college and career!

Sharon Marshall Lockett, Director
SCORE... For College and Career
sharon@score-ed.com

So Every Student Succeeds...

Often, people ask, "What would it take for our students to be able to go to college?" We know exactly what it would take. We don't always know how to make it happen.

• For students to be eligible for their chosen college or career by the time they graduate from high school, they must participate in a rich core curriculum leading to appropriate content mastery. SCORE students are placed in rigorous academic classes.

• If students are to be successful in these classes, they need to learn effective study skills. SCORE students are taught study skills as a formal part of the curriculum. Study skills are reinforced across the curriculum and in tutorials.

• If students are to be successfully up-placed in the curriculum, they will need academic support. Academic support is available through SCORE classes, tutorials, and group study sessions.

• If high-risk students are to be successful in a rich common core curriculum, teachers must use whole-brain, state-of-the-art, multiple modality teaching techniques. SCORE teachers, with study skills as a basis, use strategies that empower students and state-of-the-art methodologies.

• If students are to be successful in a rich academic curriculum, they must eliminate negative factors in their lives that would detract from their success. SCORE programs mentor students and enlist appropriate support networks when a student has a need that is negatively impacting academics.

• In order to be successful academically, students need support at all levels: family, community, peer, and education. SCORE programs foster positive peer pressure, family communication, community support, and teacher mentorship.

SCORE is committed to the ideal that all students can succeed in our rich content classes. To bring about success, SCORE endorses a comprehensive, holistic approach to educational reform, based on the above assumptions. If any of these elements is missing from a program, the end result will be diminished. When these elements support one another toward a common goal, the results in student achievement are dramatic.

Join us in Huntington Beach, California, October 10–12 to make sure all of your support structures are in place and working.

SCORE will be exhibiting at both the National Dropout Prevention Conference in October. Drop by our booth, mention this e-mail, and we'll give you $25 in SCORE-Bucks!

SCORE periodically offers centralized workshops...or SCORE can come to you!  If you have more than 10 staff members to train, fill in the information on our contact form and we will send you a Training Options flyer, personalized to your site.

SCORE 101: Adoption Workshop: October 10–12, 2006, in Huntington Beach. Register Now!

• Re-think the way you do business with a focus on “What Works” for reaching high-risk students.
• Discover SCORE’s proven strategies for creating systemic change.
• Develop a customized program to accelerate the achievement of high-risk youth.
• Receive curricular materials to assure successful implementation.
• Leave with an Action Plan tailored to your site.

SCORE has helped us to focus the many facets of our educational program to provide a more concerted effort toward higher student achievement.  Classroom teachers are enthusiastic!
I am glad I found another way to touch the life of a child and help them develop into a great individual.  All children can and will learn–no exceptions!
I can’t wait to go back to school and get started.  I’m leaving the workshop with a “do-able” plan and look forward to the upcoming technical assistance.

Use SCORE to plan your reform with your site restructuring team. We can come to you!

Tell us what you need at http://www.score-ed.com/contact.htm

Study Skills: November 7–8, 2006. Register Now!

You will gain skills and resources to:

• Increase student retention
• Improve reading speed and comprehension
• Identify learning preferences
• Enhance student interest level
• Help students listen and ask effective questions
• Teach effective memory techniques
• Improve test scores

I left thinking I had a wonderful few days.  I got home and realized it had been a life-changing experience!
It’s very exciting to think about the students using these ideas not only for better grades, but for life experiences.
SCORE is a tool I can and will use.  Thank you.
SCORE is great.  I already see a difference in my students.
Well done in a productive balance.

Train your entire faculty! We can come to you.

Tell us what you need at http://www.score-ed.com/contact.htm

Crisis, Grief, and Loss...and How to Help Your Students Through It: November 29, 2006. Register Now!

Grief is a fact of our students' lives (not to mention our own!).

When they are grieving, the way they learn changes. That means we need to reach them differently.

Attend this SCORE workshop to learn:

• How to read the subtle signs of a student in crisis
  (you already recognize their "not-so-subtle" messages!)
• What to do about it, both in and out of the classroom
  (you may gain validation and ammunition!)
• Where to go to find help
  (help for them is also help for you...your job will be so much easier!)
• How to change your teaching content and methodology to accommodate crises
  (and we teachers are always looking for a new strategy!)

Do you have a student in mind? They're invited! Listen to what students say:

I learned that grief will not go away, and when you go through depression do something.
I learned to be responsible and make good decisions.
This week I know not to take my anger out on someone else and not to argue so much.
I think you should go over this every year because it can help other people like it helped me.
I think that if it wasn’t for me, my friend would’ve joined his mother on the other side.
(Student participant one year after training)

We can come to you!

Tell us what you need at http://www.score-ed.com/contact.htm.

Hot off the press...featured at our "Back to School Special Price," this practical and comprehensive collection of techniques, research findings, materials, strategies, and teaching tools helps teachers teach students how to learn, especially language minority students and those at risk of failure. Begin your study here, and it will direct you to the other books in the SCORE Study Skills collection.

This resource book contains ten chapters divided into two sections: 1) information about teaching and 2) reproduction pages for use with students to enhance and/or enrich learning (236 text pages; 33 reproduction masters).

1. Introduction — contains the study skills research base and philosophical foundations.
2. Communication — deals with the elements of communication and utilizing learning groups.
3. Taking Notes — examines several note-taking formats, empowering students with a variety of strategies.
4. Personalities and Learning — examines the role personality plays in classroom learning and provides guidelines for need-based teaching.
5. Research Strategies — assists students as they negotiate the library and the internet to gain access to timely reference materials.
6. How to Study – offers students strategies for improving memory, building vocabulary, and managing time more wisely.
7. Reading Comprehension — presents whole brain strategies for improving reading comprehension.
8. Taking Tests — provides information and strategies for reducing test anxiety and developing test-taking skills.
9. Learning Principles — focuses on pedagogical information necessary in order to teach a study skills class or infuse study skills into a content area.
10. Resources — covers materials, networking sites, and strategies to reinforce and facilitate learning in the classroom.

SCORE Celebrates 27 Years of Improving Student Achievement!

SCORE is a comprehensive systemic change program, validated for effectiveness by the United States Department of Education. SCORE provides in-services, technical assistance, and field-tested materials, all proven to result in increased student achievement. To request specific information related to your site, visit: http://www.score-ed.com/contact.htm

• SCORE is not a "packaged program;" rather, school teams design a custom implementation that meets the SCORE success criteria and allows local ownership.
• SCORE is successful in helping language minority and Title I students achieve university eligibility by the time they graduate from high school.
• SCORE empowers students through a variety of strategies, enabling them to adapt learning to their strengths and their teacher's presentation style.
• SCORE's Study Skills curriculum is unequalled, and should be made available to all students. SCORE's primary focus is grades 6–10, but it has been adapted to meet the needs of both older and younger students.
• SCORE's Guidance Curriculum, available only through the SCORE 101 workshop, empowers schools to meet accreditation criteria and empowers students to take personal responsibility for their learning.

What do Others Say?

While school reform is a hot topic of conversation, many educators have not implemented practical programs that can help students live up to their full potential. I strongly recommend SCORE for your school. This is too good a program not to give it to everyone!

Maeva K. Hutter
Title 1 Coordinator
Willard Intermediate School

I can't say enough about how SCORE has positively impacted our Indian Education program. The SCORE program builds pride back into our students by helping them see good points, bring out their strengths, and talk about what they do well while they achieve success in school. Students have recently commented that they wish all their classes were taught like the SCORE class, "school wouldn't be boring." This is the most comprehensive model of student assistance that I have ever used. Yokoke, thank you to the SCORE staff for all of the support that we receive in helping our American Indian students realize their dreams.

Michael Folsom. M. S.
Counselor, Indian Education
Huntington Beach Union High School District

The SCORE staff, eager to support you in your quest to improve academic performance, is always as near as your mouse click, fax, or phone number:

Educational Innovations/SCORE
30100 Town Center Drive
Suite O, PMB 379
Laguna Niguel, CA 92677
http://www.score-ed.com

949-363-6764 Voice/Fax

sharon@score-ed.com