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Webinar: Preparing to Launch: EF at Groves Academy

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March 12, 2024
by Andrew Tolan, Kristen Nicklawske, and Erica Sutton

 

Preparing to Launch: Executive Functioning at Groves Academy

A GLO Education Series Webinar

Event recorded: March 5, 2024

Groves Academy faculty explain how they address Executive Functioning deficits and prepare students to launch! This event recording aims to help prospective families interested in Admissions to Groves Academy learn all about our approach to teaching Executive Functioning skills in our middle and upper schools.

Our Director of Admissions helps viewers gain a high-level understanding of our school Admissions process.

Contact us to speak to a Groves Family Navigator.

They’re well-versed in the curriculum, instruction, and extracurricular activities offered at Groves Academy and services at Groves Learning Center. They’re also knowledgeable about learning disabilities and attention and executive function disorders. They can provide guidance regarding our school, diagnostic evaluations, tutoring, speech-language services, and other resources.

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Andrew Tolan | Upper School Teacher
Andrew completed his BA in psychology at Carleton College where he also studied Spanish and completed research on the effects of representation in fiction on reading comprehension. In his Master's program at the University of Minnesota, he studied special education (Academic and Behavioral Strategist and Emotional and Behavioral Disorders) and completed a literature review regarding classroom and individual supports to increase intrinsic motivation in the special education classroom. He has taught at Groves since 2014, and though he has enjoyed teaching in all 3 divisions has found a home teaching English Language Arts, Executive Functioning, and Spanish in the Upper School.
Kristen Nicklawske | Middle School Teacher
Kristen completed her Bachelor's degree at the College of St. Benedict and double majored in English and Psychology. She earned her Special Education teaching license at the Univerity of St. Thomas. Kristen has been teaching at Groves for six years.
Erica Sutton | Director of Admissions
Erica Graduated from the University of Iowa with a BA in Elementary Education. Before coming to GLO she spent almost 14 years with Huntington Learning Center. At the beginning of her Huntington career she taught children with a wide variety of learning challenges. Later in her time at Huntington she served as a Managing and Center Director where she interpreted student's assessment results in order to build and implement individualized remediation plans while concurrently guiding and partnering with the student's parents and school teachers to ensure maximum academic gains were made. When first coming to GLO she served as The Learning Center Admissions Coordinator before joining the admissions team in April of 2021.
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Admissions Info Session

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July 16th, 9:30 am – 11:00 am

Join us for a presentation and Q&A session led by our admissions team. Prospective families will meet and hear from school leadership and currently enrolled students and their families.
Please note, due to construction at Groves Academy, this Info Session will take place at:  Beth El Synagogue, Kiddush Hall.