About Us

Your Strategist

As an Academic Strategist, Jodi works with students in senior high school and post-secondary environments to create and develop key study, organizational and time management skills to promote academic success.

Optimal Learning Strategist Jodi Beattie

Jodi Beattie, B.A.

Academic Strategist

Jodi assists students with identifying their strengths related to learning and helps students create tools and strategies to overcome identified barriers to learning.

She has a BA from the University of Calgary and numerous courses related to special education, social and emotional learning, and advocacy. For years she owned and operated a communications consulting business honing her organization, planning, time management and communications skills. She has extensive experience related to autism, ADHD, anxiety, learning disabilities and students who are twice exceptional. Jodi also served on the Board of Directors for Kenneth Gordon Maplewood School.

Jodi offers weekly sessions with the student via FaceTime, Zoom or Google Meet.

Our program is based on information and evidence from the following works:

Works Cited

“ADDitude.” ADDitude, 2019, www.additudemag.com. Accessed 2 July 2019.

Clegg, Brian. Studying Creatively : A Creativity Toolkit to Get Your Studies out of a Rut. London ; New York, Routledge, 2008.

Dawson, Peg, and Richard Guare. Smart but Scattered : The Revolutionary “Executive Skills” Approach to Helping Kids Reach Their Potential. New York, Guilford Press, 2009.

Haward, Tom. The Practical Guide to Independent Learning Skills. London, Network Continuum Education, 2007.

Medina, John J. Brain Rules : 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School. Seattle, Pear Press, Cop, 2014.

Virginia Smith Harvey, and Louise A Chickie-Wolfe. Fostering Independent Learning : Practical Strategies to Promote Student Success. New York, Guilford Press, 2007.

Images:

Dollar Gill, Unsplash
Avel Chuklanov, Unsplash
Van Tay Media, Unsplash
Javier Trueba, Unsplash
Kyle Gregory Devaras, Unsplash
Marten Bjork, Unsplash

Website Design:

Shout With Joy Communications

Conferences:

“New Cutting Edge Strategies to Improve Executive Function Skills 2019” Workshop – Sarah Ward, M.S., CCC/SLP Speech and Language Pathologist, September 25/26, 2019

Smart But Scattered: Strengthening Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents Workshop – presenter Peg Dawson, December 2019

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