Where's Kathy?
Below are the upcoming workshops that Kathy Johnson is giving. If she is not coming to your area, why not hire her for your next professional development?
5 Fun Activities to Improve Attention, Memory and Processing Speed
Bring your children, ages 6 to 18 for a fun evening about the brain. At any age, our brains can improve so that we can learn easier, shorten homework time, and get better jobs. Kathy Johnson of Pyramid of Potential will show you how to change your brain to overcome various obstacles. Put this on your calendar because this is going to be fun!
Saratoga Springs Public Library
March 13, 2014 6:30-8pm
Free and open to the public
The following workshops are sponsored by PESI. If one is not coming to your area, but you would like to see this workshop, on April 30, the workshop will be aired live via webcast. Click here for more information.
Wednesday, February 19, 2014 in
CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO Speaker: KATHY JOHNSON, MS ED Early Registration: $189.99 ** Early Registration Prices Available Until 1/30/2014 **
Thursday, February 20, 2014 in
MOUNT VERNON, IL Speaker: KATHY JOHNSON, MS ED Early Registration: $189.99 ** Early Registration Prices Available Until 1/31/2014 **
Friday, February 21, 2014 in
SPRINGFIELD, IL Speaker: KATHY JOHNSON, MS ED Early Registration: $189.99 ** Early Registration Prices Available Until 2/1/2014 **
Wednesday, February 26, 2014 in
DAVENPORT, IA Speaker: KATHY JOHNSON, MS ED Early Registration: $189.99 ** Early Registration Prices Available Until 2/6/2014 **
Thursday, February 27, 2014 in
CEDAR RAPIDS, IA Speaker: KATHY JOHNSON, MS ED Early Registration: $189.99 ** Early Registration Prices Available Until 2/7/2014 **
Friday, February 28, 2014 in
DES MOINES, IA Speaker: KATHY JOHNSON, MS ED Early Registration: $189.99 ** Early Registration Prices Available Until 2/8/2014 **
Thursday, March 20, 2014 in
ROSEVILLE, MN Speaker: KATHY JOHNSON, MS ED Early Registration: $189.99 ** Early Registration Prices Available Until 2/28/2014 **
Friday, March 21, 2014 in
BLOOMINGTON, MN Speaker: KATHY JOHNSON, MS ED Early Registration: $189.99 ** Early Registration Prices
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Apps and Math
February 5, 2014
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Announcement!!
Pyramid of Potential Series Exercises are now available as apps for your iPhone or iPad!
For more information, see below the main article today.
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 Dear All,
Today we step back a bit and look at math.
Do you know someone who struggles in math? Success in math requires so many components to be working well that it is not surprising how many people claim that they are not good at it. Take a look at this list:
- Math anxiety can cause a person to freeze up when attempting to look at numbers
- Selective visual attention problems cause some people to have trouble dealing with many math problems on the page, frequently overlooking some in the middle by mistake
- Dyscalculia: according to the Learning Disabilities Association, dyscalculia is a learning disability with the following difficulties:
- Conceptualizing place value, number lines, positive and negative value, carrying and borrowing, and others
- Understanding word problems
- Sequencing information or events
- Step by step procedures in math operations
- Understanding fractions
- Making change and handling money
- Recognizing patterns in simple math
- Explaining math processes
- Understanding time
- Organizing problems on the page, keeping numbers lined up
- Following through on long division problems
Over the next few weeks, I will address parts of this academic challenge called Math. Do you have questions about math that I can help you with and address in this newsletter? Please write to me at kjohnson@pyramidofpotential.com. I will answer them in the upcoming newsletters, and provide you with some actual activities to improve all of these areas that affect math success.
Have a great week, Kathy Johnson |
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Announcement!!
Pyramid of Potential Series Exercises are now available as apps for your iPhone or iPad!
These apps contain exercises that, if done daily for at least 30 days, have helped many people improve the issues identified below! Based on brain development research and "integration of primitive reflexes", the exercises are appropriate for ages 5 through 99, are simple, and take about 10 minutes a day.
Use these for home therapy at a price anyone can afford!
For the Overview app, click here
Hypersensitivity and Anxiety
Are you anxious or nervous? Are you sensitive to light or sound? Would you like to live a calmer, easier life?
For Hypersensitivity and Anxiety click here
Organization and Time Management
Are you disorganized? Are you frequently late but don't mean to be and mix up time? Do you find it hard to keep things in sequential order?
For Organization and Time Management click here
ADD-ADHD, Memory & Bed wetting
Do you have trouble paying attention, are fidgety and impulsive? Do you have trouble with short term memory or with things that are said? Perhaps someone you know has had trouble with bed wetting?
For ADD/ADHD, Memory and Bedwetting click here
Dyslexia and Dysgraphia
Do you or someone you know have a hard time reading, especially with reversing letters and numbers at an older age? Do you have poor handwriting? Do you have a hard time getting your thoughts down on paper?
For Dyslexia and Dysgraphia click here
Vision, Co-ordination & Attention
Do you know someone who struggles with vision - getting headaches when reading, eyes jump over words and lines, or who can read but doesn't like to? Or who had trouble learning to swim or is a messy eater? Who has problems concentrating, but not necessarily hyperactive?
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