Sdoia-Satz Offers Summer Tutoring for Adults and Children

What are YOUR children doing this summer? Studies have shown that students often lose one to three months of learning over the summer break especially in Reading, Spelling and Math. With federal and state budgets not even giving schools enough tools for regular studies, students who would like programs for enrichment or remedial help are without resources. Do you REALLY want your child spending the whole summer playing video games and watching TV and forgetting most of what they struggled so hard to learn?

Continuing learning through tutoring during the summer months is a wonderful way of insuring a positive school year ahead. There are so many benefits to this.
1. Tutoring during the summer enables children to master important skills or explore areas of interest in a fun way, and feel a personal commitment through individualized one-on-one learning.
2. Tutoring during the summer can help students who didn’t do so well this year catch up and get ahead before the start of the new school year.
3. Tutoring helps develop self-esteem and confidence that may have been destroyed by getting bad grades during the regular school year.
4. Tutoring helps students master the benchmarks necessary for passing state reading, writing, and math standardized tests. .
5. Tutoring helps prepare students in high school by giving them the tools and confidence necessary to take the SAT’s and ACT’s.
6. Tutoring helops children with learning, physical or emotional challenges who can fall back because of skills lost during the summer months

We offer one-on-one tutoring in all academic subjects with warm, patient, understanding instructors with years of teaching experience who REALLY DO know how to make learning FUN!! Tutoring available at our locations or your home. Yes, we’ll even go to you. Reasonable rates. Call us at 305.754.3097.

Practicing Sucks…workshops, seminars, book signings

Barry and Phyllis Satz have been conducting workshops, seminars and book signings all over town for Practicing Sucks, But It Doesn’t Have To.  We have spoken at about 15 Barnes and Nobles, 5 Borders stores and several libraries.  On January 20th, Phyllis Sdoia-Satz and Barry Satz will talk about Practicing Sucks and demonstrate how it works at Books and Books at 265  Aragon Avenue at 7 PM. On January 22, Miami Dade School Board will host a 3-hour seminar for instructors from 9 AM to 12 PM based on the information in Practicing Sucks.  But It Doesn’t Have To! at David Lawrence School, 15000 Bay Vista Blvd. N. Miami. Dade County instructors will receive educational credit for attendance. On February 1st, the city of North Miami Public Beach will host a two hour seminar at the North Miami Beach Library 1601 N.E. 164 Street in North Miami Beach. Admission is free to all events. See you there.

Book Signings and Mini Workshops for Practicing Sucks

For Immediate Release

October 6, 2009.  Barnes and Noble, Borders hosting series of book signings and workshops for Phyllis Sdoia-Satz and Barry Satz’s newest book PRACTICING SUCKS BUT IT DOESN”T HAVE TO!

 

Several Barnes and Noble and Borders bookstores around town are celebrating the “coming out” of Practicing Sucks, But It Doesn’t Have To!, the newest book  by Phyllis Sdoia-Satz and Barry Satz (Rowman and Littlefield) with book signings and half-hour workshops/demonstrations that will show how the revolutionary Practicing Sucks method works.      

• Monday,  October 12, 2009, 7 PM, Borders,  19925 Biscayne Blvd. Aventura, FL 305 935 0027 (changed to Sunday, October 25, 2009, 3 PM.)
• Thursday, October 15, 2009  4 PM, Barnes and Noble 2051 N. Federal Highway, Ft. Lauderdale 954 561 3732
• Thursday, October 15, 2009, 7 PM, Barnes and Noble  12405 N. Kendall Drive, Kendall, FL 305 598 7727
• Sunday, October 25, 2009, 3 PM, Borders, Aventura  19925 Biscayne Blvd. Aventura, FL
• Wednesday,  November 11, 2009 7 PM, Barnes and Noble, Boca Raton, FL
• Sunday, November 15, 2009 3 PM Borders, Aventura 19925 Biscayne Blvd. Aventura, FL
• Sunday, December 13, 2009 3 PM Borders, Aventura  19925 Biscayne Blvd., Aventura, FL

Practicing Sucks, But It Doesn’t Have To! is a new system of learning which teaches students, their families and their instructors how to derive the most benefit from instruction in the least possible time. In a no-nonsense but humorous style, it  offers hundreds of ideas, tips and suggestions which enable students to learn practically anything two to four times faster, easier, with more success and less frustration.

 

During the workshop/demonstration, Mr. and Mrs. Satz will take volunteers from the audience, teach them all the white keys on a piano keyboard, and how to read music notation and within  less than  ten minutes, the volunteers will play a simple piece on the piano by notes.

 

Although originally geared for music instruction, the Practicing Sucks, But It Doesn’t Have To! method works for anything requiring practice, study, repetition and memorization, and it actually cuts months, sometimes even years from the learning process. This new method of teaching/learning has engendered so much interest that the Florida Department of Education is including portions of the book in the new Sunshine States Standards. In addition, the Dade County School Board has scheduled a three hour seminar for school teachers, for which they will receive educational credit.

Friday, Sept. 25th We’re on Comcast Newsmakers

On Friday, september 25th, 2009 we will tape a spot on Comcast Newsmakers. We’ll tell you all about Practicing Sucks, But It Doesn’t Have To! by Phyllis Sdoia-Satz and Barry Satz. The 5 minute spot will air 40 times during the month of October.  Look for us.

Publication date: August 28, 2009

Rowman and Littlefield has announced that they will have Practicing Sucks, But It Doesn’t Have To, written by Phyllis Sdoia-Satz and Barry Satz  on the bookshelves on August 28, 2009, and have already scheduled abooksigning at Borders in South Miami right before that. What’s great about the Sdoia-Satz Method that is explained in Practicing Sucks is that it works for ANYTHING (not just music instruction) that requires practice, study and repetition. That means the golfer and tennis player  can use this method to improve their game. The gymnast can use the ideas in Practicing Sucks to improve gymnastics practice. The skater can use these methods, and someone who has homework every night can improve the efficiency and get it done in less time using the ideas in Practicing Sucks.  For information on how to order the book go to http://www.rowmaneducation.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db=^DB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=1607090074

PRACTICING SUCKS…But It Doesn’t Have To!!!

We just heard from Rowman and Littlefield that PRACTICING SUCKS…But It Doesn’t Have To!!! is not going to be in the stores until about March 2009.  It takes that long to do the editing and all the other things it takes to produce a book. That means we miss the winter holiday season.  That’s not good.  One could even say that IT SU…  well, you know what I mean.

Contract signed with Rowman & Littlefield for Practicing Sucks…But It Doesn’t Have To!!!

Good news.  We have just signed a contract with Rowman & Littlefield for publication of, “Practicing Sucks…But It Doesn’t Have To!!!.  Now the editing and the work REALLY begins.  We don’t have a set publication date yet, but I’m hoping it will be in time for the holidays

Phyllis Satz

More About “Practicing Sucks” But It Doesn’t Have To” Book

“Practicing Sucks, But It Doesn’t Have To!!!” written by Phyllis Sdoia-Satz,  pianist, educator, author, composer and Executive Director of Sdoia-Satz Music Institute in Miami, is the first in a series of books which will help students learn faster, easier, and with less stress than they ever thought possible.  Practicing anything  means repeating something or some part of something again, and again, and again, and again until the student can finally make the body “do” it,   or until it drives the student crazy, whichever comes first.  This first book is written for music students and/or aspiring music students, and/or their parents.  The next book in the series will be on homework, and the one after that will be on physical education.

In a light-hearted manner, the book teaches the music student (and the parent) what to look for, and what to expect, from the very beginning, from the moment they begin contemplating music instruction. It has hundreds of tips for how to make practice  more productive and tolerable, — and how to get the best from practice in the least possible time.  The book is admittedly irreverent and funny, but has words of wisdom ad infinitum.  It talks to the student and the parent from the hip,—no nonsense here. “Practicing Sucks”is a “must read” for anyone  contemplating starting music lessons, or for those who are studying music and wish they could get more from their hard work.

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