Summer Is Here! Keep Kids Learning with Summer Camps

Are you ready for summer? Most kids are ready to toss their schoolbooks in a corner and forget about them for the next three months, but studies have shown that this causes significant damage in their overall learning. The Swan Learning Center specializes in helping kids through the summer. If you are looking for a way to keep your kids engaged in learning, while

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Making the Most of the Summer Reading Program

Summer is coming, and with it are months of leisure for your kids. If you aren’t careful, your children will lose much of what they have learned during the school year. How can you maintain the leisure of summer without losing everything your children have worked so hard to learn this year? The answer is to enroll them in the local library’s summer reading

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Summer’s Coming – Keep Your Kids Engaged

While it might feel like winter just left the Charlotte area, the fact is that the school year is three-fourths of the way over. Now is the time to start thinking about ways to keep your kids engaged and learning over the summer. These tips from the Swan Learning Center will get you started thinking the right way. Get Them Reading Reading is the

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4 Tips for Making the Most of Teacher Conferences

The key to success in school for many kids is involved parents. When you know what is going on at school and how your child is handling various subjects and social situations, you are setting the stage for success. This requires a good connection between you, as the parent, and your children’s teachers. That connection can be made at parent-teacher conferences. Here are four

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Signs of Potential Reading Problems in Young Children

As a parent, chances are high that you are a much stronger reader than your elementary aged child. Sometimes spotting true challenges, the type of challenge that warrants the help of a Charlotte tutoring center, is not always easy. Some of the earliest warning signs of reading challenges can be explained away because the child is “young” or “immature,” and this can lead to

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Three Tips for Making Education Fun

Just like a spoon full of sugar helps medicine go down, a dash of fun can make even the most complicated lesson palatable for students. Let’s examine three ways tutors and teachers can make education not only rewarding, but enjoyable. Show don’t tell Failing to make lessons engaging and interactive is of the more common mistakes new teachers and tutors make. Fifty years ago,

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