Sylvan Learning Centers

I brought her to Sylvan for Math and SAT prep so she can retake the SAT. She doesn't approach it with as much anxiety because she used to have so much anxiety doing Math. And they gave her permission to get the answer wrong. It's okay and we can do it again. There's no rush. She's comfortable and relaxed. She has problems with focusing sometimes and attention, but Sylvan manages to help bring her back to what she needs to do. They are very skilled because I studied how they interact with other children.

My daughter has been going to Sylvan for four months now and she never said she doesn’t feel like it. It's your kid. You could see and tell a difference, and I noticed the confidence. We're still working on it but she's come a long way. I’m very positive that this will be something that will last a lifetime. Sylvan is expensive but I'd rather pay now and empty my pockets. It's a pretty penny and I see why. So, I'm looking at this whole experience as a reward and an investment for her future and her self-esteem. It's worth every bit of it. You don't have to like math, but at least accept that you need it. And I'm so happy I brought her here. I'm relieved.

I just happened to be in therapy and the therapist and I were having a conversation. If I wouldn't have had her recommendation, I still would have been floundering. So, I would be able to save the school some steps and aggravation because it was a daily chore trying to figure out how to get help for my grandson. It's appalling that the school didn't have any answers for me.

I'm very happy with Sylvan’s program. Jen, the director, is very good and I enjoy talking with her. She's very thorough and gives good feedback. Jayden’s doing very well in attending there. As far as his attitude, I have no problem getting him there. So far, everything's been great. I'm gonna try to keep him going during the school year. It's gonna be a little bit of a struggle, but I gotta try to make something work out. The learning experience is good. He was going at the end of last school year to go for help with homework and it was helping. He was struggling. It's happened two years in a row where he was doing good at the beginning of the school but as learning got harder, his grades were declining. So, hopefully, I see a change in eighth grade. He had two years of e-learning, so it hit him hard.

I just spoke with the tutor yesterday regarding my grandson’s progress in Reading for the summer program and he is achieving skills. So, he's going into eighth grade. He was reading at a sixth-grade level and now he's almost up to a seventh. He's not there yet but he's still in the program. He goes from 8:30 to 9:30 and one of the teachers that he has was a substitute at his middle school, so he knows the one. He enjoys all the teachers so he hasn't complained about any of them.

Sylvan has a good reward system. On average, my daughter completes anywhere from seven to nine lessons. When she completes a lesson or does something, she gets a point for each one. They have a little store which is like a bookshelf that they put prices on. The students can pick a prize and save their points until they make that price. Then they get to take it home when they win their prizes. My daughter loves that. When she turns back her homework in, she'll always get a sticker on her homework and sometimes an extra point for turning it in.

The tutor would write out sentences that she wants my daughter to copy or letters that she's working on to work on her handwriting. My daughter would come home and we'd trace those then turn them back in. While we were in school, I asked her teacher when my daughter had been going for about a six-week period. She said that my daughter's handwriting was looking a little bit better and that she seemed to know a few more sight words and a couple more alphabet letters.

There was some misunderstanding recently though. I thought this whole time that my daughter had been doing both math and literacy, but she had only been doing the reading aspect. But that just switched so now we're focusing on both. If I have any questions, I wait till either the beginning of the session once they walk out to tell the kids to come or till the very end when they're dismissing kids. I'll ask the questions and they usually answer my questions right there. I would recommend Sylvan ‘cause I don't see any regression.

My middle son is on the spectrum, but he still is really thriving at Sylvan even though they don't have specific lessons for children on the spectrum. He's doing well. And they reward him based on how he is improving at his rate versus an age goal, which was a problem in a lot of other places. They wanted to tutor him at grade level for age, but that wasn't where he was. But Sylvan tests him, they see where he's at, and they go from there versus making the functions about where he should be based on his age. So, the people there at Sylvan have been wonderful.

I bought the Sylvan workbooks and I started using those that I ordered in our home-school for his reading five words and Math. My boys only go to Sylvan right now for reading, but I use the workbook for both reading and Math. And the teachers have been good. I have taken the book up there several times and asked them to find the unit that they are currently working on in class and that way, I can reinforce what my boys are doing in class in our at-home work. We have already seen a lot of improvements in the fresh perspective.

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Now that he's on medication, he can really focus and he's jumping right where Tommy said he was gonna jump. He's really jumped. So, that's what was really good. The director there has done a great job saying, "Okay, this is where we're gonna see him and this is where he's gonna done." My focus is to get him ahead going into second grade. Now that we have him on ADHD medication, we'll see that jump even quicker.

My son likes school now and it's great. He likes to be read to, but he's starting to want to read, which is great. We haven't been going to Sylvan that long, but we're starting to see the little jumps and those little wins are great. With him having ADHD and with him having a learning disability, we're in Sylvan for the long haul. It's not like we're gonna ever be done with Sylvan. We're probably gonna be paying for Sylvan for years because we're always gonna need the extra support. I tell others all the time to go to Sylvan. If somebody asks on Facebook who to go to for tutoring, I tell them to go to Sylvan.