Help to Help Your Child: Increasing Your Child's Success In School

Each day across the nation, thousands of children enter into school situations for which they are not prepared. Parents have questions and concerns and are at a loss to know how to help their children achieve to their highest potential.Contained within each chapter of this book are ideas and behavior suggestions that empower parents to take the initiative to mold and monitor their child’s experience. However, when the school district does not seem to be addressing the child’s needs, sections of this book indicate the proper methods of when and how to access those special services that are, by federal law, the child’s legal right.

Bobbi Sullivan has been in the education field for over 35 years, working with students from kindergarten age to adults. Concentrating in the English/ Reading/ Language Arts areas, she has taught in three different Pennsylvania school districts and has helped adults who never completed their educations achieve high school equivalency. Her employment in a Title I reading program for elementary age children led to an appointment as the Instructional Support Coordinator for a Pennsylvania school district, heading the Instructional Support Teams of five elementary schools. Mrs. Sullivan is the past editor of a weekly newspaper, the Pittsburgh Renaissance and, at present, is employed by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review posting an on-line blog. When not writing, Mrs. Sullivan currently works as an independent educational consultant, helping children in Pennsylvania and South Carolina achieve academic and behavioral success.