Contact Information
| New Students: | (877) 253-2595 |
| Current Families: | (954) 423-9141 |
| Fax: | (954) 423-8901 |
| Monday: | 9:00 AM - 8:30 PM |
| Tuesday: | 9:00 AM - 7:30 PM |
| Wednesday: | 9:00 AM - 7:30 PM |
| Thursday: | 9:00 AM - 8:30 PM |
| Friday: | 9:00 AM - 7:30 PM |
| Saturday: | 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM |
| Sunday: | Closed |
In the Community
The Sylvan Learning Center of Davie is dedicated to our community. We enjoy being active in the Davie area and have worked with local businesses, schools, and community groups. Engagement in our community is a key way for us to promote the importance of learning and education. We believe that we can accomplish a great deal if we work together with our Davie area friends and neighbors. Contact Davie Sylvan today to find out how we work with the community to help our students achieve their goals.
Back to School - Suggestions for things parents and students can do.
One of the most frequently asked questions from parents is how to plan for a successful school year. Here are suggestions for things parents and students can do to get the upper hand on a new school year before it takes on a life of its own.
Parents, start setting the healthy and helpful routines that your child will need to navigate the new school year. These include times for mornings (breakfast), after school (homework), evenings (family and fun) and bedtime. These routines become rhythms, necessary for children, adults, and families.
Students, set some new school year’s resolutions. Make them challenging and realistic. An improved grade in social studies? Remembering to turn in homework assignments? Keeping an organized notebook? Studying for tests earlier than the night before? Making the soccer team? What’s important to you?
Seniors, how’d you do on your ACTs or SATs? Not happy with the scores? Start thinking now of getting help and then taking the test again. See your guidance counselor or check out www.collegeboard.com, www.act.org, www.educate.com, or other well-respected websites for test dates and prep opportunities.
Parents, reinforce those routines. Students, you’ve already set the routines at home, now make sure you have school routines, too. Set them by yourself and with your study buddy. Share your goals with your study buddy. Help your buddy achieve hers; she’ll help you achieve yours. Parents, take every opportunity to communicate with teachers. Go to Back to School Night, take advantage of teachers’ web pages on the school web site, know when special projects will be due so you can bug your kids to get them done, inform teachers of your kids’ special needs and goals. Teachers like to hear from you, especially when you’re being constructive and helpful.
Set rewards and consequences. Parents, let your kids know – in words and actions – that you support their goals and efforts. Show them that there will be some kind of reward for advancing toward and meeting those goals. Rewards don’t need to be monetary, but they can be. Depends on how you feel about this.
Review progress toward goals. Need help, students? If you do, get it early. If your study buddy can’t help you, ask for help from your teacher, someone who’s smarter than you are in the subject, or a tutor. Just get help. Don’t put it off.
Review grades regularly. Interim reports will be out soon but don’t wait until then to see how your child is doing. Students, review your progress with your parents. Parents, despite what your kids tell you, report card grades are rarely a surprise for them. They shouldn’t be a surprise to you either. Review grades regularly.
Prepare for exams. Semester’s coming to an end. Students, are you ready for finals? Long-range projects completed? Parents, have a “backpack pop quiz.” Check out what’s in there.
Parents and students, spend as much time as you can together. Talk about non-school stuff, family history, family members you haven’t seen in a while. Take pictures; send them to friends and family with short notes. Build memories. Everyone read the same book and then spend some time talking about it.
Now you have a plan for the first half of the school year 2010-2011!
Read for Relief: Help Sylvan & Book Adventure Support Gulf Relief and Recovery Efforts!
Read for Relief: Help Sylvan & Book Adventure Support Gulf Relief and Recovery Efforts!
Through Read for Relief, we’re helping support immediate relief and recovery efforts in the Gulf region. We also want to empower children to get involved and make a difference by reading a book.
1. Over the past three months, 184 million gallons of oil have spilled into the Gulf of Mexico devastating coastlines, families, and businesses.
2. Sylvan and Book Adventure.com, our free motivational reading website, are helping support relief and recovery efforts through Read for Relief.
3. Sylvan will donate 10 cents to the United Way Gulf Recovery Fund for every book quiz kids complete on BookAdventure.com, up to $10,000.
4. We encourage kids to visit http://bookadventure.com to get involved by reading a book, taking a quiz, and helping to make a difference.
5. The donation will provide assistance with food, rent, and utilities now, as well as educational, financial, and health-related recovery support.