What Makes Us Unique?

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Our TEACHERS make the difference and set us apart from any other learning facility. Every session is facilitated by a highly qualified, experienced classroom teacher that has extensive knowledge of the content areas benchmarks and common core standards. They are able to provide students with best practice using a variety of different teaching strategies, approaches, manipulatives, and resources.

In addition, our experienced teachers are knowledgeable about each of the grade level content expectations, best practice of teaching, and how to differentiate to visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learners as they do in the classroom. This gives Goldstar an ability to provide specialized services that no one else can. Moreover, our service is further differentiated by:

1.  Individualized, private, one-on-one tutoring service: These sessions are based on personalized evaluation of each student and his or her specific needs and strengths. Taking into account that students learn in various ways, Goldstar first evaluates each student and their best way of learning,  tailoring the subject content to most effectively serve each student.

2.  Small Group Enrichment: These sessions align with what students are currently learning in their classroom and is taught by an expert teacher, utilizing the same successful approaches/differentiation that they use with small groups in their own classroom. 

3.  Advanced Enrichment Courses: These sessions allow those students that need more enrichment and challenging coursework to excel and serve to prepare these students with content work that the grade level ahead of them are learning. This course is perfect for those students who want to prepare for Advance Placement Courses for Middle School and get ahead in their studies.  

4.  Technology Courses: Prepare students with technological skills they will need to thrive in their grade level or get ahead of their classmates.
   
5.  Research Based Curriculum: Curriculum aligning with what students are currently being taught (common core aligned) are implemented into all one-on-one and small group sessions to help support and advance student skills so they can gain confidence, growth, and academic success.

Company History

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​The concept for Goldstar Enrichment Learning was developed by Marie Shiha, a local teacher in the community with experience and an extremely strong passion for education and teaching. She identified this service need based on her experience with students working with other tutoring centers in the area not meeting the needs of these kids or differentiating content the way that they learn in the classroom. Hence, the idea was developed to create a learning center unique from any of the ones in the area, that was actually ran by teachers and has a long-term focus of empowering students to learn through small group or one-on-one instruction, with the same approach and learning that these teachers exemplify in their own classrooms.

Name

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​​​The name, Goldstar, was chosen because in education, a “Gold Star” (sticker) is the universal symbol, whether a student is in kindergarten or 12th grade, for academic success.  ​