Helping Families Achieve Success with Learning in the Home Setting
- Early Academic Intervention Specialist for the Home Setting
- Expert in the area of twice-exceptional, gifted, and students with learning disabilities
- Academic and Homeschool Coach for Families
Dr. Deanna Westedt is helping parents maximize their homeschool experience to bring out the full potential of learning in the home setting. She tackles the most common and difficult challenges of homeschool, drawing from both personal homeschool experience and blending that with developmental and learning theory. Her unique understanding of the homeschool lifestyle combined with her research into scaffolding learning for all kinds of learners, including those with learning disabilities and giftedness, makes her guidance second to none!
She walks alongside families to provide them with solutions balanced with a lens of compassion and flexibility. Sharing strategies developed in her own home as she taught her two boys, her passion is to provide these tools to families for learning success!
For co-ops, charters, and other organizations, bring Dr. Westedt’s knowledge and insight through the learning environment that works best for you: as keynote speaker, in-service class, training workshop, or BITTM mini event. She can join you in-person or online.
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PD Online
Deanna offers a wide-range of online training, such as seminars, bite-sized training topics, and one-on-one coaching. Empower your staff through online training.
PD In-Person
In-person events with Deanna can transform how you approach your twice-exceptional students. She leads training events for educators, students, and parents.
Resources
Free articles, white papers, and suggested books on the subject of twice-exceptional children and how to educate them effectively.
What to Do When Your Child Isn’t Finishing Their Work
For parents of homeschoolers or in-person schoolers who have difficulty completing their work, it can be a mystery that stumps the most cleverest amongst us and leaves us wondering how to get them back on track. We know they are capable, yet work remains done or temper tantrums and flat-out refusal may ensue. Such circumstances […]
Top 3 Ways to Build Confident Writers in Your Homeschool Setting
Writing is amongst one of the subjects I receive the most questions. Parents often feel the abstractness of the writing task as overwhelming. And many times our own experiences of writing instruction that lacked clear guidance colors our feelings towards the writing task itself. But the great news is that there is a way to […]
Post High School and Societal Expectations: My Child Doesn’t Want to Go to College Right After High School
Reaching the milestone of high school graduation is monumental, whether a homeschooler or otherwise. But for many the question of “What next?” looms large. It can feel like a societal microscope examining those post-high school career and educational choices and one that is used as a barometer of our parenting and educational success. So, what […]
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