Posts by Mark Taylor
231: Academic Consulting with Dr. Shirag Shemmassian
Dr. Shemmassian is the Founder of Shemmassian Academic Consulting and one of the world’s foremost experts on medical school admissions, college admissions, and graduate school admissions.
For nearly 20 years, he and his team have helped thousands of students get into medical school and top colleges using his systematic and proprietary approach.
Dr. Shemmassian received his B.S. in Human Development from Cornell University. Despite graduating with a 3.9 GPA as a pre med student, Dr. Shemmassian’s interests in mental health led him to complete his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at UCLA. Throughout his education and beyond, Dr. Shemmassian successfully guided students into top colleges, medical schools, and graduate programs, and has found his professional calling in helping others achieve their educational and career goals.
Dr. Shemmassian’s admissions expertise has been featured in various media outlets, including The Washington Post and Business Insider. Moreover, he has been invited to speak at Yale, Stanford, UC Berkeley, and other prestigious institutions about various aspects of the admissions process.
Website
https://www.shemmassianconsulting.com
Resources that may support you if you are looking at colleges:
- How to pursue extracurriculars the right way for college admissions
- How to get into med school
- Everything you need to know to become a dentist
Resource Mentioned
How to Win Friends and Influence People – Dale Carnegie
Show Sponsor
The National Association for Primary Education speaks for young children and all who live and work with them. Find out more about their online CPD events at nape.org.uk/online-events
230: MathCodes and Coaching with Kohila Sivas
Kohila Sivas is the creator of the revolutionary MathCodes Method™, a unique system designed to recover learning loss in math. Kohila blended the math hacks she discovered to demystify math and merged them with a coaching methodology that can transform any struggling student.
She developed the system over 22 years working one on one with over 1500 struggling students.
Kohila was once a struggling math student herself and is now a Math Coach, reformed tutor, ex-teacher, BI and Math Interventionist, #1 Best Selling Author, speaker, and Master NLP Practitioner.
She is also a fearless entrepreneur, parent, and a lifelong fighter and learner.
Since 2018, she and her partner Rod Bellamy have trained passionate educators to launch and grow independent coaching practices using the MathCodes Method™.
The MathCodes Association of Certified Coaches (MACC) is a growing organization that offers professional certification.
Website
www.mathcodescertifiedcoach.com
Social Media Information
www.facebook.com/mathcodesbykohila
www.linkedin.com/in/kohila-sivas-2502297a/
Resource mentioned
Think and Grow Rich – Napoleon Hill
Show Sponsor
The National Association for Primary Education speaks for young children and all who live and work with them. Find out more about their online CPD events at nape.org.uk/online-events
Special Educational Needs CPD
– English as an Additional Language (EAL)
– How to identify children who may also have dyslexia or another SPLD
– Common speech, language and communication needs
Co-occurring challenges
Do you ever worry that a child in your class is not making the progress you were expecting? There may be many reasons for this – and some will overlap. In this interactive session, we will look at some of the causes of underachievement, and try to find some solutions that could benefit the whole class.
We will start by looking at how all teachers can effectively support those learners who are using English as an Additional Language (EAL), and then move on to what we should be alert to in order to identify any children who also may have dyslexia or another SPLD. Finally, we will look at some common speech, language and communication needs, and how they could be met in the classroom.
Please feel free to bring your questions and share your experiences, so that, as a group, we can empower each other to support our learners.
Host
Mark Taylor (Vice Chair NAPE) – Mark has been a professional percussionist for 25 years and performed with some of the major orchestras and arts organisations in the UK. Mark combines his performing career with teaching drums/percussion in schools and providing whole class rhythm workshops.
Mark is the creator and host of the Education on Fire podcast. He interviews educators from around the world so that he can enable his listeners to support children to live, learn and grow to their full potential. He has recorded over 300 episodes which have been downloaded in over 135 countries.
Presenter
Dr. Anne Margaret Smith started her career as a teacher of English as a foreign / additional language around 30 years ago. Alongside her language teaching, she also works as a dyslexia assessor and specialist tutor, and has designed an assessment tool to allow us to identify SpLDs in multilingual people. She founded ELT well in 2005, to combine these two fields of education, and offers professional development and resources to language teachers in all contexts. She is currently also training to be a Speech and Language Therapist.
Date & Time
Monday 6th December 2021 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM (UTC+00)
If you can not join us live a replay will be available.
Event Fee
£12.50 per person
FREE to NAPE members (use promotional code at checkout)
For more information and to book please visit https://nape.org.uk/sen
SEN CPD with Dr Anne Margaret Smith – NAPE 074
National Association for Primary Education presents:
Special Educational Needs CPD
Monday 6th December 2021 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
This online zoom event will cover 3 areas of Special Educational Needs to help you support your pupils:
– English as an Additional Language (EAL)
– How to identify children who may also have dyslexia or another SPLD
– Common speech, language and communication needs
Co-occurring challenges
Do you ever worry that a child in your class is not making the progress you were expecting? There may be many reasons for this – and some will overlap. In this interactive session, we will look at some of the causes of underachievement, and try to find some solutions that could benefit the whole class.
We will start by looking at how all teachers can effectively support those learners who are using English as an Additional Language (EAL), and then move on to what we should be alert to in order to identify any children who also may have dyslexia or another SPLD. Finally, we will look at some common speech, language and communication needs, and how they could be met in the classroom.
Please feel free to bring your questions and share your experiences, so that, as a group, we can empower each other to support our learners.
Host
Mark Taylor (Vice Chair NAPE) – Mark has been a professional percussionist for 25 years and performed with some of the major orchestras and arts organisations in the UK. Mark combines his performing career with teaching drums/percussion in schools and providing whole class rhythm workshops.
Mark is the creator and host of the Education on Fire podcast. He interviews educators from around the world so that he can enable his listeners to support children to live, learn and grow to their full potential. He has recorded over 300 episodes which have been downloaded in over 135 countries.
Presenter
Dr. Anne Margaret Smith started her career as a teacher of English as a foreign / additional language around 30 years ago. Alongside her language teaching, she also works as a dyslexia assessor and specialist tutor, and has designed an assessment tool to allow us to identify SpLDs in multilingual people. She founded ELT well in 2005, to combine these two fields of education, and offers professional development and resources to language teachers in all contexts. She is currently also training to be a Speech and Language Therapist.
If you can not join us live a replay will be available.
Event Fee
£12.50 per person
FREE to NAPE members (use promotional code at checkout)
To book please visit https://nape.org.uk/sen
229: How to choose the right college with Shellee Howard
Shellee Howard is the Founder and CEO of College Ready and CR Tutoring and Test . She is a college graduate and is a Certified Independent College Strategist. She is a best-selling author, a member of HECA (ethics organization), and a member of SOFA (Society of Financial Awareness).
Shellee is a mother of 4 young adults. Her oldest son graduated from Harvard in 2016 debt free and graduated from UC San Diego Medical school in 2021. He will be completing his Orthopedic Surgeon Residency at UCLA.
Her oldest daughter attended the University of Alabama and CBU and graduated debt free with her BSN in 2020 and received her RN in 2021.
Her youngest son is a high school senior and will be attending SFSU in the fall of 2021 majoring in Film Production.
Her youngest daughter is a rising Senior and will be looking to attend college as a business major internationally.
Shellee has traveled around the world helping students create their “Stand out Strategy”. She knows what it takes to compete in the Top tier schools as well as finding the best-fit college for all students. Shellee believes that no two students are the same and each student must have their own strategy and plan to be successful. Each student has a gift/talent and a passion that will set him or her apart from their competition. Getting to know your student one on one is the key to success. This can be done in person or via Zoom. College Ready has clients all over the USA and each one is important. Her focus is to find the best academic, financial and social fit college for each student to thrive at and graduate debt free!
She runs a company called College Ready. She helps kids (and their parents) by preparing them for the college admissions process, helping to get them into college without huge debt and even how to succeed once admitted. She is also a best selling author.
Website
Social Media Information
Shellee’s book: How to send your student to college without losing your mind or your money
Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/CollegeReadyDebtFree
Facebook page: www.facebook.com/CollegeReadyPlan
Instagram: www.instagram.com/collegereadyplan/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/college-ready/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr_WodPHDfSWEbiPdsRDbyQ/featured
Twitter: twitter.com/gocollegeready/
Show Sponsor
The National Association for Primary Education speaks for young children and all who live and work with them. Find out more about their online CPD events at nape.org.uk/online-events