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“SOAR Learning began from seeds of frustration from a former “struggling student.” Today, it has grown into a worldwide, best-selling curriculum! Hi! We are co-founders of SOAR® Learning: Susan Kruger Winter, M.Ed. (I’m the former struggling student) & my husband, Brian Winter, M.Ed. We each spent years as classroom teachers, living the pressure and demands of classroom teaching: overloaded curriculum, limited…
Last week, someone blasted me for posting a specific review on Amazon, calling it “self-serving.” This person (whose review name, S. Richardson, leaves the person generally anonymous) spent most of his/her words attacking my integrity. However, buried in the message was one point of constructive criticism that warranted clarification on my part. As I fleshed…
Peer pressure is incredibly powerful, and that’s not always a bad thing. A substance abuse counselor once told me, “If I am having trouble reaching an adolescent in a one-on-one therapy session, I will send them to group therapy. There is no greater influence in an adolescent’s life than their peers, and group therapy is…
We just received some A-M-A-Z-I-N-G data! It came to us from Maeser Academy, home of SOAR®’s 2013 Teacher of the Year. According to the school’s administrator, Robyn Ellis: – “GPAs are up at least a full point every month this year…” – “Test scores are five points above the national average and five standard points…
It’s not every day that a middle school student spearheads a major school curriculum initiative. Yet that’s exactly what happened when a sixth-grader at Wetsel Middle School in Madison, VA compiled a petition of 250 student signatures and asked his school board to adopt SOAR®!  That sixth-grader is Timothy Decatur-Luker; Timothy is the youngest student…
In about six hours, my family will grow by one. “It’s a boy!” As I write this, my husband, Brian, is driving home to Detroit, from North Carolina, with the newest member of our family…my 20 year-old cousin, Kevin. Kevin will be doing an internship with SOAR® and getting a heavy-duty course in study skills. …
A Day in My Life as a Classroom Teacher… “Casey! Stop throwing your chair!” “Sarah, where’s your homework?” “Noah, where’s your pencil?” “Caseeeeeeeeey! Put the chair down and get back to your seat!” Sound familiar? You have students that are easily distracted and unorganized. You might suspect it’s ADHD. (Or the executive function challenges of…
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