Make Your Mark Learning Center

Healthy Kids

New studies are confirming what parents have long observed - there is a relationship between what children eat and how they think, act, and learn. Like every other system in the body, the brain needs good food.

Cognitive Skills

School is not the only arena in which children's minds need to be nurtured and expanded. Equally vital is the kind of education and brain building that a student undergoes at home.

College Entrance Prep Exams

We’ve been providing specialized training since 2000 and we are excited to report that our students typically raise their SAT scores 100-150 points and their ACT composite score as much as 10 points.

Tutoring and Homework Help

Make Your Mark in Life is a unique tutorial center providing academic instruction and empowerment coaching for students of all ages.

Reading

Learning to read is complex. Students must develop competency in four areas simultaneously: word identification, comprehension, fluency, and motivation.

Welcome to Make Your Mark in Life

*Build Self-Confidence*
Whether you are learning to read, need help in a particular course, or seeking the ways to increase your SAT/ACT scores.

Make Your Mark in Life is a unique tutoring center offering every student the opportunity to learn how to do their academic best by focusing on their unique strengths and needs along with the development of their cognitive skills ~ the skills underlying all academic skills.

Goals and lessons are highly individualized and delivered in an encouraging atmosphere. We are especially effective for students who have learning challenges, lack motivation and confidence, or may not learn through traditional methods.

Whether you are learning to read, seeking specific course help, need skills to pass standardized tests or want improved SAT/ACT scores, Make Your Mark in Life is the place for you.

We serve students of all ages, from pre-K to adult, with academic instruction and empowerment coaching, for as long as the student and family wishes.

Call Make Your Mark in Life (772)231-9998

Special Needs Parenting

Parenting Special Needs Magazine: Chantai & Tom Snellgrove (residents of Indian River County, FL) created this very special online magazine in 2008. It is an outstanding resource for the latest and greatest information needed to parent children with special needs. parentingspecialneeds.org

7 Common Core Questions

Some parents are thrilled. Others are up in arms. But many, dare we say most, are just beginning to get their heads around the fact that something called the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are expected to be implemented in 45 states by the 2014-2015 school year.

Eighty-five percent of U.S. students live in states adopting the new Common Core State Standards. Here are the essential questions - and answers - to get you up to speed. Read Full Article

Bundles at Good Sensory Learning

Bundles offer a select grouping of products at a discount for customers at Good Sensory Learning.

We Can Help!

Call to learn about our specialties:

• help for "learning different" students
• outstanding, individual PSAT/SAT & ACT prep
• one-on-one tutoring in all subject areas for all ages
• cognitive skill-building and organizational skills
• general and specific test taking skills (FSA's, EOC's, GED, ASVAB, PERT, TABE...)
• all in an extremely supportive and motivating environment

We are in a GREAT location!

Find us at our very own Center at 1931 19th Place, Vero Beach! (Right off Route 60, heading east towards downtown Vero, past the corner of 21th Street and 20th Avenue. Parking behind the building.)

Juice Plus Opportunity

Lynda Allen

Join me and get maximum nutritional support for you and your children’s physical and mental well-being. JuicePLUS+ products are available through Make Your Mark and are yummy and affordable. Contact Lynda for more information and to get started today.

Tools for Learning & Life
Finding Balance

Tools for Learning - Tools for Life

1. Breathing Tool: Calming ourselves—checking in. When we breathe deliberately, it calms and slows us down, and brings our attention inward. We become more self–aware and reflective about our bodies, minds, emotions, and reactions. We are more likely to have the insight and time to act in our own best interests and in the best interests of others.

2. Quiet/Safe Place Tool: Remember your quiet place. This is a place of rest and peace where we can gather ourselves together and feel safe and comforted. It can be an actual place, or a place that exists in our imaginations. In quietness, we can hear the soft, small voice in our hearts and minds, and allow creativity, imagination, and self–expression to emerge naturally.

3. Listening Tool: We listen with our ears, eyes and heart. When we listen with our ears, our eyes, and our hearts, we become deep listeners who can “hear between the lines.” Our ears bring us the words and intonation; our eyes bring us body language, gestures, and facial expressions; and our hearts bring us empathy—allowing us to walk in someone else’s shoes.

4. Empathy Tool: Caring for others, caring for ourselves. Empathy is the root of understanding, kindness, and forgiveness—both for others and for ourselves. When we empathize, we let go of our own perspective long enough to acknowledge the feelings, situation, and motives of others. Through this, we develop compassion, and learn to care.

5. Personal Space Tool: Where my space ends and yours begins. Whether we feel safe or threatened, secure or on our guard depends on how we experience others in relation to our personal boundaries. Every day, we experience the joy of sharing our personal space, as well as hurt or anger when that space is violated by unkind words or hurtful actions. By using this tool, we come to appreciate the importance of respecting each other’s physical, emotional, and social boundaries.

Finding balance in your child's life
Do you shuttle your child from one activity to the next? Find ways to simplify your child's overscheduled life.

It starts with the best of intentions. Your daughter excels at music, so you enroll her in piano lessons. The next year, she picks up the violin and joins the soccer team. She asks to join her friends in scouts, then wins a spot on the academic quiz team.

Family dinners become a thing of the past as you shuttle her from one activity to the next. Homework takes up the rest of the evening, leaving her little time to play or unwind.

Read the Full Article at www.greatschools.org

Lynda Sloan Allen
1931 19th Place
Vero Beach, FL 32960
772-231-9998