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SUPPORTING THE WELL-BEING OF STUDENTS MEANS SUPPORTING THE WELL-BEING OF THEIR PARENTS.
"For schools, families, and communities to raise healthy, socially, and emotionally healthychildren start early and take a holistic and positive approach to the challenges kids face." -Brian Flay, American Journal of Public Health
Research shows that social-emotional learning and parent engagement in a child's education and school community positively affect student achievement. This positive relationship exists regardless of race, ethnicity, parent's level of education, or socioeconomic status.
Therefore, schools that focus on engaging with parents in a holistic manner provide numerous benefits to students, such as:
- parents who acquire skill sets that help students overcome challenges and cope with crisis and trauma
- faster rates of literacy acquisition
- increased school attendance
- higher levels of high school graduating
- increase college enrollment and graduation
Leadership Concepts Institute understands the importance of the partnership between schools and families. However, having the experience of providing group and one-on-one coaching to parents, including during the pandemic, we have identified the barriers that prevent this from happening and the actions needed to overcome them.
That is why we are now offering THREE different interactive online courses to assist schools and districts in empowering ALL parents, including parents of two of the most vulnerable populations: parents of black boys and children with dyslexia.
Parenting Empowerment services are offered in five 90-minute modules that can be offered every week, once month, or however, a school or district feels fit their schedules and parents' needs. These services are available for ALL parents.
For parents of Black boys or children with dyslexia we offer parent engagement customized for those specific groups therefore providing deep understanding some of the challenges facing these particular students.
Success for OUR Sons and Leaning into Dyslexia are courses that coach parents of black boys and children with dyslexia so they can create tools to support their children academically and emotionally THRIVE.
The courses are founded on Dr. Jean-Louis' two decades of cumulative evidence-based research of educational and social-emotional learning best practices, positions in academia as an online curriculum developer and professor, educational advocate, and a mother of 3 black sons, one with dyslexia.
Parent Engagement and Equitable Social Emotional Learning are the Keys for Black Boys to Succeed.
Statistics show that regardless of socio-economic background, black boys face academic and emotional challenges that other groups don't have to deal with.
Challenges such as:
- A suspension and expulsion rate higher than any other demographic
- The underrepresentation in gifted programs, honors, and advanced placement courses
- Implicit bias leading to educational environments that promote the stereotype of their supposed intellectual inadequacy and "troublesome" behavior
- Making up 80% of the suicide rate in the Black community
- Carrying burdens that others do not have leading to trauma
- Seemingly "unmotivated" but starving for understanding, resources, and challenges that respect his agency
Parents that began the coaching program felt fearful for their son's future. They also felt unprepared and overwhelmed to combat the continued struggles that hindered their son's emotional, psychological, physical, and economic well-being.
However, once completed, parents were able to:
- Learn and implement the suitable systems for "THEIR" son to academically and emotionally thrive.
- Use strategies to help their son build self-esteem and resilience for increased emotional well-being.
- Develop a partnership with the school leading to better communication, educational resources, and opportunities for increased academic success.
- Discuss pathways forward after graduation.
- Develop self-care and manifestation techniques that work for them, causing less stress and burnout at home.
For generations, black families have utilized education to "make it" and achieve prosperity. But generational mobility has been stagnant for most black children. The ONLY way to ensure quality education is to ensure they have access to the right resources supporting their academic and emotional growth.
Testimonals
Shavawn Peterson Simmons/Founder, Family Literacy of Georgia
Cheryl Parks/Sales Growth Coach, Chief Growth Officer, Consult Speak Coach
Cheryl Parks/Sales Growth Coach, Chief Growth Officer, Consult Speak Coach
Dr. Jean-Louis is passionate and transparent about helping promote the excellence of children of color in their endeavors.
Cheryl Parks/Sales Growth Coach, Chief Growth Officer, Consult Speak Coach
Cheryl Parks/Sales Growth Coach, Chief Growth Officer, Consult Speak Coach
Cheryl Parks/Sales Growth Coach, Chief Growth Officer, Consult Speak Coach
Dr. Jean-Louis walks the walk! She is knowledgeable, implements, and positively impacts the journey. I’ve learned how making your family your focus can be used in many educational ways but, most importantly, to position generational power and wealth. Thank you, Dr. Jean-Louis!
Reading is a prerequisite to success in life. However, schools seem to be struggling.
Statistics from the National Department of Education reveal 1in 3 children in 4th grade are at or above reading proficiency. Four in ten read below basic level reading.
Combine this with research from the Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity, which states that 20% of the population has dyslexia. That is 1 in 5 school-age children. Dyslexia also makes up 90 percent of learning disabilities.
Although many states have begun to reassess their reading programs and provide better training for teachers on dyslexia, a main component is missing: the parents.
Without the parent's buy-in, dyslexia is more likely to be untreated holistically. IEP meetings are a disaster leading to further alienation, resentment, and lack of trust from parents.
As a professor, Dr. Jean-Louis met dyslexic students in college for years, retaking classes and struggling needlessly to graduate, all due to a lack of assistance they could have received before coming to college. But their parents failed to get the help they deserved because they didn't know how.
Parents have many responsibilities with their jobs, other children, and family obligations, leaving them little time to "figure out" how to help their dyslexic child. Thus, they are overwhelmed and unprepared in IEP meetings, which leaves them unable to advocate successfully. But this can prevent a child from reaching their potential as they grow up, causing long-term educational, social, and economic consequences.
The Mayo Clinic states that “left untreated, dyslexia may lead to low self-esteem, behavior problems, anxiety, aggression, and withdrawal from friends, parents, and teachers.”
Parent support is essential because:
- According to the National Center for Educational Statistics, high school dropout rates for students with learning disabilities are more than twice those without learning disabilities.
- Seventy-four percent of students who display reading problems without the proper support will remain poor readers in adulthood.
- Students with untreated dyslexia are more likely to become unemployed or underemployed.
- Increased risk of incarcerated (50% of people in prison have dyslexia-more than double the general population)
Parents want their children to learn. Schools CAN work with parents that have children with dyslexia and develop holistic school-home systems that provide equitable and quality education resulting in academic, life, and college success and creating a home with less stress and more support.
By completing this course, parents will be able to:
- Utilize tactics for relationship building and positive school communication for favorable outcomes
- Use strategies to help their child build self-esteem and resilience for increased emotional well-being
- Develop self-care and manifestation techniques that work for them, causing less stress and burnout at home
- Nurture the inherent strengths of the dyslexic mind
- Know how to utilize research-based strategies to improve their child's IEP and access to educational resources for high school, college, and life success.
- Find the RIGHT accommodations for the best academic outcome for their child.
- Distinguish the difference between a 504 plan and an IEP and which is best for their child.
Testimonials
William Dean, Ed. S/Chairperson, Division of Special Education and Career Technical Instruction Coordinator, Jonesboro High School, Clayton County Ga.
William Dean, Ed. S/Chairperson, Division of Special Education and Career Technical Instruction Coordinator, Jonesboro High School, Clayton County Ga.
William Dean, Ed. S/Chairperson, Division of Special Education and Career Technical Instruction Coordinator, Jonesboro High School, Clayton County Ga.
"I wish all parents with children with dyslexia and an IEP could work with Dr. Jean-Louis. She will assist them in the recognition of areas of concern and provide strategies that will match those issues. I worked alongside Dr. Jean-Louis for four years as part of her son's IEP team.
She fought hard, including with me, to ensure the accom
"I wish all parents with children with dyslexia and an IEP could work with Dr. Jean-Louis. She will assist them in the recognition of areas of concern and provide strategies that will match those issues. I worked alongside Dr. Jean-Louis for four years as part of her son's IEP team.
She fought hard, including with me, to ensure the accommodations were met while maintaining her collaborative team approach. She was always well-prepared for our meetings and brought along research and data on dyslexia, which I and the rest of the team found exciting and learned from. I appreciated that because she made me a better educator. As an educational advocate, she represented all children with dyslexia and advocated for the category of dyslexia as a disability which was eventually achieved. Her son would later be inducted into the National Honors Society at his high school and Clayton State University as a dual-enrolled student and recognized as a top 5 scholar-athlete. Dr. Jean-Louis' Leaning into Dyslexia course applies the same focus on evidence-based research and lived experiences as she did as her son's advocate and an educational advocate for all children."
Stacey Ames, Ed. S/Licensed Behavior Specialist and Therapist for Philadelphia Public School System, Founder, Leading with Behavior Balance
William Dean, Ed. S/Chairperson, Division of Special Education and Career Technical Instruction Coordinator, Jonesboro High School, Clayton County Ga.
William Dean, Ed. S/Chairperson, Division of Special Education and Career Technical Instruction Coordinator, Jonesboro High School, Clayton County Ga.
"Dr. Angela has done a phenomenal job with her dyslexic son, allowing him to be a project learner and learn through experiences. It has paid off, as he has achieved academic success and college scholarships. She shares that information in her Leaning into Dyslexia course. I've been in education for over 20 years. I have seen a gamut of t
"Dr. Angela has done a phenomenal job with her dyslexic son, allowing him to be a project learner and learn through experiences. It has paid off, as he has achieved academic success and college scholarships. She shares that information in her Leaning into Dyslexia course. I've been in education for over 20 years. I have seen a gamut of things occur, but I always tell her that she is an anomaly and that most parents don't have this level of commitment and patience. It is not a choice but because they have so many other things competing with their time. They have to work and be there for other children. But the strategies that she has used with her son will help parents navigate an overwhelming system, causing less than stellar results. She built her son's curriculum while homeschooling him and then learned how to make connections when she put him in public school. I always say, 'Wow!'
Engaging Families is critical for student success in academics, social-emotional learning, and school climate.
Engaged parents produce engaged students.
Ready to make a difference in students' lives and create a better culture within your school or district with the Parent Empowerment Series, Success for OUR Sons or/and Leaning into Dyslexia courses?
$1499.99 PER course includes pre-parent assessment, 7.5 hours of online interactive coaching with parents (90 minutes per module), Q & A sessions, Parent Engagement workbook, communication templates, post-parent assessments, and parent equitable leadership report for educational leaders.
PLEASE CALL 404.578.0221 FOR DISTRICT PRICES.
Let's talk.