...donated a signed jersey which his family framed in a beautiful case for an impromptu auction that raised $1500 on the spot.

The Study Skills Academy is an after school program that is designed to help children find strategies to make learning easy, to improve knowledge and understanding, and to provide multiple ways for a child to approach school based on their own learning style. It's the extra personal time they need. I haven't seen it in action, but I certainly will be keeping an eye out for it. At first glance this seems like exactly the kind of program our kids need that addresses the issue of the multiple intelligences and learning styles. Hopefully it will help carry the focus away from the tests and standards, and bring the focus back to the individual child. WIth the physical, social, and emotional health issues that surround our families today and the pressure to let medical or psychiatric advice through the sale of pharmaceuticals for ADD, ADHD rather than address the issues we give up our children's right and ability to try to learn self control and understand how they work on their own. There must be a more natural way...