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By Beverly Stewart, February 9, 2012 10:53 am

This honor is awarded weekly to a young person from around the world who exemplifies an extraordinary commitment to service.

The Everyday Young Hero Award program is open to youth ages 5-25. Nominations must come from a parent, teacher or other adult mentor. Winners are announced in the NSB, featured on YSA’s website and showcased within its social media outlets. Everyday Young Heroes also receive a certificate, award and press release.

Nominate a young person you know to be recognized as an Everyday Young Hero at www.YSA.org/awards/hero

For 27 years, Back to Basics Learning Dynamics Inc. has been recognized as the undisputed leader in one-on-one tutoring in Delaware. In addition, the company offers a unique Department of Education-approved Private School for grades K-12 and a Private Business and Trade School for ages 16 and older. Back to Basics is the 2010 Better Business Bureau Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics.

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By Beverly Stewart, February 8, 2012 7:27 am

Did you know that Back to Basics Learning Dynamics is in full operation during the summer months? Summer is an ideal time to build confidence and maintain or strengthen basic skills, or get a head start for the next school year!

Students may take a course, one-on-one, at Back to Basics for state-approved credit during the summer in place of going to summer school (1st-12th), build critical math skills, or prep for the SAT. Or, students can use this time to reinforce language arts or math skills, or prepare for High School Entrance Exams or PSAT/SAT tests in a one-on-one format. Over 60 subjects are offered!

• State-approved to offer makeup credit, summer school, and original credit courses

• Offers flexible scheduling 7 days a week

• Offers 1-on-1 instruction (absolutely no large classes)

• Willing to work around your summer vacation, summer camps, and your student’s work schedule

• Available to come to your home, day camp, or our Center in Wilmington, Delaware

For 27 years, Back to Basics Learning Dynamics Inc. has been recognized as the undisputed leader in one-on-one tutoring in Delaware. In addition, the company offers a unique Department of Education-approved Private School for grades K-12 and a Private Business and Trade School for ages 16 and older. Back to Basics is the 2010 Better Business Bureau Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics.

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By Beverly Stewart, February 6, 2012 1:31 pm

This scholarship is for current high school seniors and matriculating undergraduate and graduate college students. Scholarships will be awarded based on financial need, community involvement, essay content, and academic achievements and records.

The program seeks to reward deserving individuals who want to use their education to make an impact in the lives of the underserved. The scholarship program is divided into awards of $25,000; $10,000; and three $5,000 for five recipients to use towards their college or graduate education.

• The scholarship is open to students who meet the following requirements:
• Must have, at minimum, a completed high school education by the 2012-2013 academic year
• Must be a citizen, national or legal permanent resident of the United States
• Must have attained a cumulative Grade Point Average (GPA) of 3.0 or above, or have a earned a General Educational Diploma (GED)
• Must exhibit a strong commitment to helping others in their community

For more information DOING GOOD

For 27 years, Back to Basics Learning Dynamics Inc. has been recognized as the undisputed leader in one-on-one tutoring in Delaware. In addition, the company offers a unique Department of Education-approved Private School for grades K-12 and a Private Business and Trade School for ages 16 and older. Back to Basics is the 2010 Better Business Bureau Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics.

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By Beverly Stewart, February 4, 2012 1:49 pm

Back to Basics Learning Dynamics' Director Beverly Stewart organizes books, so that students can select their favorites to take home.

Back to Basics Learning Dynamics, Inc., in a unique partnership with the literacy organization Success Won’t Wait, Inc., will provide over 500 children’s books to children in Delaware’s non-public Title I program, in celebration of National I Love to Read Month. Together, Back to Basics Learning Dynamics and Success Won’t Wait launched the “Reading is Basic Program” in 2011, and since then the program has provided thousands of books to schoolchildren in grades K-8.

Currently, Back to Basics services almost 200 Title I students from the Red Clay, Colonial, Christina, Brandywine, Smyrna, and Appoquinimink school districts who attend non-public schools, providing supplemental reading and math instruction.   Using book donations from Success Won’t Wait’s collection, this month Back to Basics will make over 500 age-appropriate books available to these Title I students. Program teachers will distribute 3 books per student, which they can take home and keep.

This project was created in response to literacy statistics that rank access to reading materials as one of the most important predictors of a child’s future reading success. According to Sanford Newman in his book America’s Child Care Crisis: A Crime Prevention Tragedy, “The most successful way to improve the reading achievement of low-income children is to increase their access to print. Communities ranking high in achievement tests have several factors in common: an abundance of books in public libraries, easy access to books in the community at large and a large number of textbooks per student.”

Additional books will be provided to the children at regular intervals, and as new students are added to the Back to Basics’ Title I program, they will also receive age-appropriate books.

For 27 years, Back to Basics Learning Dynamics Inc. has been recognized as the undisputed leader in one-on-one tutoring in Delaware. In addition, the company offers a unique Department of Education-approved Private School for grades K-12 and a Private Business and Trade School for ages 16 and older. Back to Basics is the 2010 Better Business Bureau Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics.

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By Beverly Stewart, February 3, 2012 6:28 am

NEA’s Read Across America Day takes place each year on or near March 2, the birthday of Dr. Seuss. Across the country, thousands of schools, libraries, and community centers participate by bringing together kids, teens, and books!

The theme is green for a very special 2012 Read Across America celebration. NEA’s Read Across America campaign will showcase the Lorax book as well as NBC/Universal’s The Lorax.

Learn more at Read Across America.

For 27 years, Back to Basics Learning Dynamics Inc. has been recognized as the undisputed leader in one-on-one tutoring in Delaware. In addition, the company offers a unique Department of Education-approved Private School for grades K-12 and a Private Business and Trade School for ages 16 and older. Back to Basics is the 2010 Better Business Bureau Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics.

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By Beverly Stewart, January 26, 2012 8:02 am

The Tower Hill Community Camp Fair in Wilmington, Delaware is free to the public and showcases over 100 camps and programs for ages PRE-K to 12th grade — including academic camps like Back to Basics Learning Dynamics’ programs.

The event will be held in the newly renovated Field House at Tower Hill School on Rising Sun Lane (just off Route 52) in Wilmington, Delaware from 3:30 to 7:00 p.m.

What will you find at the Community Camp Fair?

• Local, National and International Camps

• Specialty Camps

• Day and Overnight camps

• Academic Programs, like the Back to Basics learning Dynamics’ programs

• Travel & Adventure Programs

For more information, please CLICK HERE

For 27 years, Back to Basics Learning Dynamics Inc. has been recognized as the undisputed leader in one-on-one tutoring in Delaware. In addition, the company offers a unique Department of Education-approved Private School for grades K-12 and a Private Business and Trade School for ages 16 and older. Back to Basics is the 2010 Better Business Bureau Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics.

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By Beverly Stewart, January 23, 2012 12:56 pm

Application Deadline:

June 1, 2012

Eligibility Requirements:

• High school seniors and undergraduate students
• U.S. citizen or permanent resident
• Current enrollment
• 2.0 GPA

Requirements:

1) Write a 500 word essay explaining how your college experience is or will be enabled by remarkable frugality, ingenuity, effort or thrift.

Example: one of many other things I did at school was buy a router and wireless cards (they were cutting edge then!) and sell wireless internet access to others in my building.

Applicants are encouraged to discuss topics such as:

• student loans
• other scholarships and grants
• personal savings
• working full or part time while in school
• any other creative or remarkable approach to paying for college or saving money as a student

2) Break down your all-in educational costs (tuition, room, board, other) and how they are or will be paid.

Note: given the “shop smart” theme, there is a bias against both high annual tuition costs and student loans.

Essays will be judged on the creativity of the money saving strategies described, along with the overall remarkableness of the author’s experience paying for school in the spirit of thrift.

Terms and Conditions:

Winner will be notified by email by July 1, 2012, and may also be contacted by phone or by mail.

By submitting an entry, you agree that all essays become property of Shop Smart, Inc. and BradsDeals.com and may be reused, repurposed or published.

Winners may be required to verify enrollment, GPA or submit the Student Aid Report (SAR) derived from your FAFSA.

Scholarship winners must submit a current photo and a signed publicity release granting BradsDeals.com and Shop Smart, Inc. permission to use his/her name and photo on its websites and in marketing materials including but not limited to press releases about the scholarship.

The BradsDeals Privacy Policy applies to all submissions. No contact details such as address, phone or email address, or financial information provided in the scholarship application will be disclosed or publicized without permission.

The Shop Smart Scholarship Application

For 27 years, Back to Basics Learning Dynamics Inc. has been recognized as the undisputed leader in one-on-one tutoring in Delaware. In addition, the company offers a unique Department of Education-approved Private School for grades K-12 and a Private Business and Trade School for ages 16 and older. Back to Basics is the 2010 Better Business Bureau Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics.

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By Beverly Stewart, January 21, 2012 9:18 am

There has been research that supports that being a musician can have certain non-musical benefits; and these benefits last a lifetime. A study in the journal Social Science Quarterly found that music also had positive effects on reading and math. Studies conducted by cognitive neuroscientists correlated music training with improved cognition, motivation, attention, memory and other developmental benefits.

Humans are wired for music. Until recently, scientists did not know how music affected the brain. With the advancement of technology, scientists can actually see the brain activity via PET scans and MRIs. Most activities only cause a portion of the brain to “light up” with activity; thus the saying right-brain/left-brain. But music makes all of the areas “light up” and create new neural pathways as a person is learning and playing an instrument. These neural pathways remain intact and can be used for other learning experiences besides music.

These benefits can pay off for decades, even for those who no longer play instruments. Research has shown that musical activity throughout life may serve as a challenging cognitive exercise, making one’s brain fitter and more capable of accommodating the challenges of aging. Since studying an instrument requires years of practice and learning, it may create alternate connections in the brain that could compensate for cognitive declines as we grow older. When tested, seniors who were musicians performed better on tasks of both verbal and visual memory than non-musicians. They also discovered that life-long musicians have less age-related hearing problems. The researchers attributed this to a “use it or lose it” type of phenomenon, as musicians are regularly required to use their auditory skills.

Apart from scientific research, there is also evidence that music programs help develop internal strengths in children, like initiative, creativity, resiliency and a belief in self. To learn music and musical performance children must overcome many obstacles. Orchestral music presents the kinds of challenges that develop initiative, including the opportunity to choose one’s instrument, participation in an environment that contains rules and complexities, and long-term practice and repetition.

Music keeps the mind sharp, serving as a challenging cognitive exercise; it feeds the soul, develops character and boosts creativity. It engages children in an activity that increases their capacity to thrive as adults. What a great investment!

When you feel your child is ready for formal lessons, don’t forget Back to Basics. We offer 1 on 1 lessons in piano, flute, tenor sax, clarinet, guitar, trumpet and more! Call us at 302-594-0754.

For 27 years, Back to Basics Learning Dynamics Inc. has been recognized as the undisputed leader in one-on-one tutoring in Delaware. In addition, the company offers a unique Department of Education-approved Private School for grades K-12 and a Private Business and Trade School for ages 16 and older. Back to Basics is the 2010 Better Business Bureau Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics.