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What's New at Learn and Lead

Academic Writing: Crafting an Essay

5/31/2023

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We are very excited to add a new coaching program to our repertoire. We are often asked whether we provide support for mature students returning to higher education and in need of writing support. This program, created and coached by Ms. Tatiana Handfield, is perfect for individuals entering higher education and wanting to improve their academic writing skills.  

Program Description: Crafting an essay can be a daunting task for even the most experienced writer. That's why we created a 6-part series for mature students that simplifies the process. Our series takes you step-by-step through the entire process, from brainstorming to proofreading and everything in between. Our comprehensive approach to essay writing is designed to help you develop your skills and become a better writer. With our series, you'll be able to craft well-written essays in no time!

Visit our Summer 2023 page for program description and registration!
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Helping Your CHild Prepare for Exams

5/28/2023

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As we are knocking on June’s door, many of our students are starting to prepare for their end of term exams. A common complaint that I get is that ‘my child doesn’t know how to study.’ If you are in this boat, not to worry, I have some tips the twill help.

Firstly, it’s important to remember that studying is a skill that can be taught. When our kids are not given instruction on how to study, they often just look over their pages endlessly with without a goal in mind. For studying success, we want them to have study strategies that can help them improve.
Start by looking at the subject areas that your child needs to study. In areas where there are example problems or papers that can be used, guide them through the practice questions that can be completed. Plan with them as to how many review questions they should get done within a certain period.

In subjects that require memorization of definitions and facts, it may be helpful to make some flash cards. Put the term on one side, and the definition or important facts on the other side. Teach your child how to go through the stack of terms and say the definition or facts orally before checking the answer on the back of the page.

When there is a lot of reading involved, suggest that they look at the headings of each section and turn the headings into questions. For examples, if the heading of a section is, “Natural Resources within the Turks and Caicos Islands,” guide them into turning this title into a study questions – “What are the natural resources found in the Turks and Caicos Islands?” Writing the questions, they make in a notebook or on flash cards provides a great way for them to review content.
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In addition to the three strategies provided above, here are some important tips to keep central when supporting your child through exam season.
  1. Organize for Studying Success – Decide where studying is going to take place. Ensure that the space is free of distractions during study time and has all the tools needed.
  2. Plan a Study Schedule – When there are several subjects that need to be reviewed it can become overwhelming and students may need support managing their time. Look at their exam timetable, discuss with them which subjects may need more of their time, and draft a schedule for which subjects they will study when and for how long. See this schedule as a starting point and adjust as necessary.
  3. Set Study Goals – Help your child decide how much content they need to get through in each study session or if there are any concept they want to master. This will help them to focus on the task at hand.
  4. Consider their Learning Style – We all have our learning preferences. If your child is a strong visual learning, provide them with a whiteboard and markers to make things visual as they study. If they have a strong musical style, allow them to listen to instrumental music as they study. Learning styles inventories can be found online to help your child determine their areas of strengthen.
  5. Encourage Intervals – It’s easy to expect longer study periods the closer that students get to exams. Remember that the brain needs time to rest, and focus can increase after breaks. Encourage your child to study hard, and to enjoy their breaks. 
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Youth Help Foundation

5/27/2023

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In this second video with the Youth Help Foundation, I touch on 10 important skills that parents can nurture with their children in the early years.

"The Youth HELP Foundation empowers vulnerable children and young people to maximize their innate potential through partnerships with other non-profit and civil society organizations that together ensure equitable access to resources for health, education and literacy programs." If you would like to know more about the Youth HELP Foundation, visit their website at www.youthhelpfoundation.org.

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dEI for the RTCPF

5/26/2023

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“Creating and managing a diverse workforce is a process, not a destination.” 
​–R. Roosevelt Thomas, Jr.
Today I had the pleasure of working with the Royal Turks and Caicos Police Force. The Acting Commissioner of Police and team members took a deep dive into the topic of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. This is an essential topic to explore for today's management teams. We focused on the following areas:
  • Creating a Mindset for Inclusive Leadership
  • DEI Terminology
  • Stereotypes, Bias and Microaggressions
  • Generational Gaps
  • Creating a Culture of Inclusion.  
It was an absolute pleasure working with this team, and I look forward to continuing this work with The Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force.
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Defining Your Mentall Welness with Rotary

5/24/2023

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Last night it was a pleasure to join the Rotary Club of Providenciales  to discuss Mental Wellness for Mental Health Awareness Month. In our time together we look at mental health, stress management and work-life integration. 

Rotarians and their guests were encouraged to spend the time learning about mental health, gaining strategies for stress prevention and stress management, and evaluate their work life balance. Our closing activity encouraged them participants to evaluate where they are in 8 domains of their life and make a plan for where they would like to be in order to achieve their own 'work-life' balance. 
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Childhood Develoment with YHF

5/24/2023

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As you know, at Learn and Lead we are extremely passionate about early childhood development, so we were more than happy to support the Youth Help Foundation in an initiative to raise awareness. 

"The Youth HELP Foundation empowers vulnerable children and young people to maximize their innate potential through partnerships with other non-profit and civil society organizations that together ensure equitable access to resources for health, education and literacy programs." If you would like to know more about the Youth HELP Foundation, visit their website at www.youthhelpfoundation.org.

In this video we discuss the type of development that we would like to see children have in the early childhood years that make them ready for school and ready to learn. We want them to be able to:
  • Communicate their needs to others.
  • Speak in complete sentences.
  • Be able to take care of themselves (to dress themselves, use the bathroom, manage their bodies)
  • Be able to draw with pencils, markers, and crayons.
  • Put together puzzles.
  • Be able to play active games.
  • Have print awareness.
  • Be ready to learn and grow!

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The Dynamic Leader

5/23/2023

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“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” – John F. Kenned
Yesterday I had the pleasure of working with the Executive Management Team of the Financial Services Department. This was the final session in a series of team building sessions undertaken by the FSC. Soft Skills training is essential to the success of today's workplace. Participants enjoyed working together to explore understanding paradigms and managing team development, emotion intelligence, interpersonal skills, and creating synergy.

All the best to team FSC! It has been a pleasure working with you!
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Mental Health Awareness Month

5/18/2023

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May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Mental health refers to our feelings, our emotions our thinking and our moods. As parents it’s important to understand that mental health is not simply the absence of a mental disorder, but that it is a state of well-being. A healthy parent-child relationship has a great impact on a child’s mental health, so firstly, always look for opportunities to develop and maintain a strong relationship with your child and presence in their lives. You are likely their most consistent role model.

According to the CDC, “Being mentally healthy during childhood means reaching developmental and emotional milestones and learning healthy social skills and how to cope when there are problems. Mentally healthy children have a positive quality of life and can function well at home, in school, and in their communities.”

Children, all over the world, have been through a lot in the last few years. Many of them have had to cope with great change, great loss, and had to make many shifts. With this, many emotions have come, and it’s important that we give our children a safe space to feel these emotions and to work through them.

A mentally healthy child doesn’t mean that they will always be happy. With the increase is social media, it’s important to highlight to our children you can’t tell what someone feels like by what they share online. Children gain the mistaken belief that if they aren’t always feeling positive emotions, that something is wrong with them. Take the opportunity to explain to them that just like physical health, we all have mental health. Feeling angry, stressed and down is part of life, just like it’s normal to feel happy, confident, excited, and care-free. Good mental health is about experiencing both types of feelings.

Here are my top 5 tips to help navigate mental health with your children.
  1. Encourage Connections – Look for ways to connect and provide a listening ear for your children. Leave out the shame, pressure, and judgement, and focus on being present.
  2. Provide Opportunity for Physical Activity – Encourage being active. Whether it is playing organized sports, basketball in the driveway, going for a walk, or having a dance party in the kitchen, look for ways to exercise daily.
  3. Practice Mindfulness – Guide them in becoming aware in the present moment. This can be simply slowing down for a moment of awareness in nature, of gratitude, or taking a breath. Look for ways to help them focus on the present moment, rather than the past, or potential future.
  4. Always be Learning – Although our children are always learning in school, look for ways to expand their learning at home. Whether it’s with you in the kitchen, or a video on YouTube, we live in a time that allows for continuous access to information.
  5. Build Resilience – Resilience is the bounce back skill. The thing about resilience, is that it’s not something we build in in difficult times, but rather we draw on. Therefore, look for ways to help your child build their resilience daily, so when they need it, it’s there for them to draw on it.
  6. Break the Stigma – Our culture sometimes creates an environment of shame around the topic of mental health. Be intentional about emphasizing that we all have mental health just like we have physical health. 

For Age specific recommendations on supporting Mental Health and Welbing of your children, visit UNICEF parents.
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Summer Enrichment Registration Now Open

5/17/2023

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During the month of July, parents have an opportunity to enroll their children in the summer version of our Specialized Tutoring Program. In this program our students receive one-on-one instruction from one of our educators.

This program targets students in Primary and Early Secondary school. Whether your child needs intervention to close learning gaps, you want to avoid summer learning loss, or you want them to have a new challenge, we create your child's sessions specific to their needs. Goals are set and recorded on their Student Expectation Report and their progress assessed at the end of their summer sessions.
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Parents have the option of registering for 8 sessions (Tuesdays and Thursdays) or 12 sessions (Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.) To accommodate the staggered end dates of schools on islands, parents can register their kids beginning the week of July 3 or the week of July 10th.

Register Here: 
Summer 2023 - LEARN AND LEAD LTD. 
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Emotional Intelligence and Leadership

5/16/2023

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inOn Friday I met with the management team of Invest Turks and Caicos to explore 'The Emotional Intelligent Leader.' Today's leaders must have an understanding of how their emotions and actions affect the people around them. A leader's success is strongly linked to the way they relate and work with others. Emotionally intelligent leaders take the time to work on their self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy and social skills. 

In addition to your EQ strengthening the way you coach your team members, manage stress, deliver feedback and collaborate with others, it also facilities you meeting your team members where they are and helping them reach their potential. These key elements are all essential for the collective success within an organization. 


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Is Work Life Balance Achievable?

5/12/2023

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Yesterday I spent some time at Fortis TCI speaking about Stress Management and Work Life Balance in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month. We spoke about stressors, practical ways for monitoring and managing stress, and preventative measures. When it came to work life balance, we discussed whether this was possible. The consensus seemed to be that we had to first define what balance looks like for us. Participants completed a short activity that helped them highlight their priorities in this season in their life and what balance could look like for them. 
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Finding Common Ground

5/12/2023

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Last week we concluded our 3-part webinar series entitled: Recipe for Inclusion with InterHealth Canada. Our last session focused on finding common ground between generations. We are at a point in history where it's not uncommon to find up to 5 different generations working together in an environment. For this reason, it's important to identify and bridge the generation gaps to have a productive workforce.

Common Ground Between Generations focuses on understanding what makes each generation tick, their preferences, and common ground strategies to facilitate a dynamic that develops and maintains an inclusive and productive work environment. 
 

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    Yolande Robinson, M.Ed.
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    Yolande Robinson is the owner of Learn and Lead Educational Center. She is a mother of 3 and the wife of Hon. Jamell Robinson, the Minister of Physical Planning and Infrastructure Development of the Turks and Caicos Islands.

    Yolande believes in the power of educating, inspiring and empowering individuals to reach their potential personally, in their families and in their careers. 
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