Huff Learning Center
Huff Learning Center
An Individualized Approach to Learning
One measure of a great school is how well it meets the challenges of individual differences while striving for excellence. At CCS, these differences are celebrated as evidence of the unique creation of each child. Teachers in the Huff Learning Center individualize the learning process to ensure that each student achieves academic success. For each student, they coordinate a Team Action Plan which includes the home, the classroom teacher, and the Learning Center itself. Successful intervention in targeted areas brings rewarding gains in an academically challenging curriculum. CCS is blessed to have the Huff Learning Center for students that may need help in Skill Building or the NILD (National Institute for Learning Development) program. In addition, programs from the Neuhaus organization are available through the Learning Center. There is an additional cost for these programs.
Programs offered
Skill Building
- Provides an individualized tutorial program for academic subjects
- Augments the classroom instruction
- Works closely with the classroom teacher to identify weaknesses
- Targets good study skills
Study Skills Enrichment Program
- Provides help for students (6th-12th) who often have difficulty organizing and managing homework and tests.
- Provides a study skills specialist to students (who have been identified as needing additional assistance) to help them coordinate their education program and teach them to become successful.
- Provides the following types of assistance:
- organizational help
- test-taking skills
- tracking homework and grades
- helping family to develop structure and routine at home
- encouragement and counseling to student and family
- facilitation of communication between home and school
Discovery Program - NILD
- An "internationally recognized program" for students (elementary-high school) who struggle to learn. For more information, please go to www.nild.net
- Uses interactive language and multi-sensory interventions to develop core academic skills and higher order thinking and processing skills.
- Focuses on teaching the student "how" to think versus "what" to think in order to enable them to overcome specific learning issues in the areas of reading, spelling, mathematics, handwriting, written expression, listening, and reasoning.
- Individual and intensive sessions are provided weekly.
- NILD/Discovery personnel receive continual on-going professional training
Search and Teach - NILD
- The program is an early (primarily kindergarten and first grade) intervention program developed to meet the educational needs of young learners before they experience the frustration of learning failure.
- Focuses on developing foundational skills necessary for success in reading.
- Provides individualized sessions which meet twice a week for 30 minutes each.
- Focuses on targeting the deficit areas through techniques that build perceptual skills such as visual memory, auditory sequential memory, directionality and motor skills.
Neuhaus Programs
- Basic Language Skills (BLS) for children Kindergarten through 5th grades provides a balanced approach that has structured procedures that are sequential in phonemic awareness, letter recognition, decoding, comprehension, spelling, fluency, vocabulary, and oral and written expression using multisensory techniques and strategies.
- Multisensory Reading and Spelling (MRS) provides help for sixth through twelfth grade students.
Both programs are:
- Orton-Gillingham based that are intensive and therapeutic curriculums that meets the guidelines of the Texas Dyslexia Legislation and is effective with students with Dyslexia and students with special needs in learning to read and spell.
- Based on current scientific research – www.Neuhaus.org
Teachers
The credentials of the CCS Learning Teachers speak for themselves.
- Dianne Horner-B.A. in Secondary Education and English (minor in Communications), ACSI and BCCT certification, 19 years experience as a teacher, learning center coordinator, and school consultant for educational programs. Dianne.Hornor@CypressChristian.org
- Kim Moon-B.S. in Accounting, ACSI Certification, NILD Educational Therapist, Gesell Development Training, and 6 years of teaching experience. Kim.Moon@CypressChristian.org
- Marilyn Tucker-NILD Licensed Therapist, Search and Teach Specialist, B.S. in Elementary Education with Kindergarten Endorsement and over 25 years teaching experience.Marilyn.Tucker@CypressChristian.org
- Lisa Mitcham-B.B.S. in Elementary Education specializing in Reading and Early Childhood Development, NILD and Search and Teach specialization, 11 years of teaching experience. Lisa.Mitcham@CypressChristian.org
- Karen Witherow-Bachelor of Science - Elementary Education, (K-6), Physical Education, Master of Education-Special Education/Learning Disabilities, NILD Professional License, ACSI Certification/Special Education Specialist, 26 years of teaching experience. Karen.Witherow@CypressChristian.org
- Brenda Ballew-NILD/Discovery Therapist. B.S in Ed., Texas State Teacher Certification, 8 years experience as an NILD/Discovery Therapist, over 20 years of teaching experience. bjballew@att.net
- Cindy Brown-BSN, Certified Academic Language Therapist (CALT), Licensed Dyslexia Therapist, Neuhaus Dyslexia Specialist. Eleven years experience as a Neuhaus Dyslexia Specialist. cbrown1006@yahoo.com