We help invested parents raise resilient kids by using simple, powerful, tools to teach the science of learning how to learn. Your YP Learning Coach jumps in to relieve parent/student stress, provide weekly tutoring sessions, and equip families with tools to transform their relationships on the path to a student's success.
Weekly tutoring sessions that equip students with the tools they need to transform their success and relieve parent/student stress. A full-day learning center, where students benefit from working with a Minnesota-certified curriculum while supported by Learning Coaches. Our programs improve student's ACT/SAT scores.
Weekly tutoring sessions that equip students with the tools they need to transform their success and relieve parent/student stress. A full-day learning center, where students benefit from working with a Minnesota-certified curriculum while supported by Learning Coaches. Our programs improve student's ACT/SAT scores.
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Personalize the educational experience to transform students into confident, inspired learners who will use their unique gifts, passions, and talents to change the world. Cara Thorpe founded Yellow Parachute Learning Partners in 1999, after leaning in to her own unique strengths in individualized instruction.
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My name is Cara Thorpe. I'm the founder and visionary of Yellow Parachute Learning Partners, we're a team of 50 Learning coaches who network across the twin cities and the US to provide both in person and remote learning opportunities for students both during and beyond the school day.
I've started with a 3-part series that follows the work I've been doing over the past five years to take care of myself and protect my creativity as a wife, mother, entrepreneur, and I look forward to sharing with you in hopes that my experiences may assure you that you're not alone and offer ideas to seek this fulfillment in your own life.
I've started with a 3-part series that follows the work I've been doing over the past five years to take care of myself and protect my creativity as a wife, mother, entrepreneur, and I look forward to sharing with you in hopes that my experiences may assure you that you're not alone and offer ideas to seek this fulfillment in your own life.
K-12 Tutoring
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Yellow Parachute's proprietary Student Operating System curriculum, or SOS, combines education and social research, business practice, psychology, and 20+ years of experience working with students ages 4-18 in and out of the classroom setting to create a whole-student approach to success.
The program may be taught as a general study-skills and work-habits building class for a group or used as an intervention course for individuals or small groups.Figure out how to achieve the goals, including the ability to stay flexible and develop alternative routes. Students involved in after-school tutoring demonstrated 2-5 times the growth projected by their fall assessments.
The program may be taught as a general study-skills and work-habits building class for a group or used as an intervention course for individuals or small groups.Figure out how to achieve the goals, including the ability to stay flexible and develop alternative routes. Students involved in after-school tutoring demonstrated 2-5 times the growth projected by their fall assessments.
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Elementary school is a time for your student to put his/her best foot forward in school. It is also when you may need extra time and support identifying specific learning needs in your child and how best to meet them. We celebrate the unique combination of talents, personality, and learning style of each student to bring him/her to the next level of comfort, confidence, and success in learning.
Test Prep
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Students report that Yellow Parachute's test prep curriculum helps prepare them beyond the test; in addition to boosting scores, students say they have become better overall test takers, strategic thinkers, and have improved time management and confidence in learning. When the ACT process is finished, a student's biggest compliment is asking, What else can we do together?
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