If you or your child suffers the academic and social frustrations caused by a reading difficulty, you're not alone. Up to 20% of the population will experience great difficulty learning to read, but can be successful with specialized instruction. Learning methods that are "different" than traditional teaching and unique from other Barton tutoring programs.
Foundations Tutoring is an extension of the very successful Barton Reading Program that was implemented in Pleasanton schools from 2001 to 2012. We have over ten years of standardized data demonstrating that our students make significant and lasting progress over time. They DO catch up to grade level.
Foundations Tutoring is an extension of the very successful Barton Reading Program that was implemented in Pleasanton schools from 2001 to 2012. We have over ten years of standardized data demonstrating that our students make significant and lasting progress over time. They DO catch up to grade level.
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Our Mission
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Our Mission is to provide at-risk students with effective, evidence-based instruction that will bring their reading and writing skills up to grade level or beyond.
We have ten years of experience in doing just that, and we intend to continue helping the many intelligent, capable, hard-working students in our community who suffer from poor grades, poor test scores, and poor self-esteem, whom we know will be successful given reading instruction that matches their learning style.
We have ten years of experience in doing just that, and we intend to continue helping the many intelligent, capable, hard-working students in our community who suffer from poor grades, poor test scores, and poor self-esteem, whom we know will be successful given reading instruction that matches their learning style.
Why Choose Us
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We only accept students whom we know we can help. If we cannot help your child, we promise to do our best to point you in the right direction. Foundations Tutoring offers intervention instruction that is "different" than traditional teaching in both what is taught and how it is delivered. After all, more of the same won't help.
Our Beginnings
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Our Beginnings: In Sept. of 2001, Special Education teacher Christina Clark established a volunteer tutor program at Valley View elementary school in Pleasanton, CA. Known as the PUSD Barton Reading Program, this intervention model matched carefully identified at risk students to well-trained and supported volunteer tutors, who generously provided three hours per week of one-on-one tutoring in the Barton System of Reading and Spelling.
Owners
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Christina Clark is an experienced Special Education professional. She started her teaching career as a Teacher of the Deaf, working first in the public schools and then transferring to the California School for the Deaf where she taught in the elementary grades for more than 10 years.
Christina has also taught Resource (Special Education) in the Fremont, Livermore, and Pleasanton schools, where she specialized in reading, writing, and math intervention.Her degree in Communicative Disorders and early training with deaf students uniquely prepared her to work with students who have learning differences, given that most at risk students have language-based auditory challenges.
Christina has also taught Resource (Special Education) in the Fremont, Livermore, and Pleasanton schools, where she specialized in reading, writing, and math intervention.Her degree in Communicative Disorders and early training with deaf students uniquely prepared her to work with students who have learning differences, given that most at risk students have language-based auditory challenges.
To Honor the Classroom Teacher
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We at Foundations Tutoring value and appreciate the hard work of the classroom teacher. We know so many dedicated teachers who devote themselves to each and every student's success. Although we know that every classroom teacher would love to meet the needs of every at-risk student, the time and resource constraints of the classroom make this unrealistic.
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