If you are looking for the opportunity to polish your skills, poise your demeanor, and position…read moreyourself for leadership . . . get to this club! Toastmasters International has helped to mold leaders, and speakers internationally for decades. And frankly, we could all use some help with improving our speaking abilities. I have found ESPECIALLY in a wavering economy, good communication skills and the ability to lead are essential. This club meets EVERY Wednesday, 7:00-8:00 AM, just call it the best darned way to improve your day. Visitors always welcome!

Looking forward to the open house, May 16th at 7am!! Feel free to stop by for an opportunity to…read morepolish your speaking skills and enjoy a light breakfast.

We worked with Lauren for our 5-year-old who had always struggled with "big feelings" but suddenly…read morehad an aggressive behavioral change. We were walking on eggshells, bracing for violent outbursts, and had run out of strategies (books, podcasts, and Instagram posts could only take us so far!). We contacted Lauren as a referral from our pediatrician and she came within a couple of days. She was direct, honest, flexible, and honored our personal constraints. Within an hour, she had connected with our kiddo and reset the tone for our family. We committed to Lauren's approach. Over the course of several weeks, we saw dramatic improvements in behavior and breakthrough moments that brought tears to my eyes--calming his body, being kind to his little brother, and demonstrating patience. We not only regained control of our household, we learned how to be much more positive and resilient parents. As we reflected back, we spent the prior year+ losing our sh** and thinking that was normal (it probably is "normal"). Lauren was the intervention we didn't realize existed. We are now more equipped, in a way that is customized and works for our very special child. Thank you Lauren!!

Lauren truly is an exceptional behavioral consultant. I can't recommend her enough!…read more She has the ability to strike just the right balance of cool aunt and drill sergeant while working with children. She's so good at what she does that she's able to get the behavioral changes needed while maintaining a positive relationship. Not to mention the children walk away feeling really good about themselves. When speaking with children she truly humanizes their experiences and makes it so relatable for them. She has been instrumental in working with our school and has provided guidance and strategies for the school that are both novel and impactful. This has made a remarkable difference. Finally, she has been immensely helpful in teaching me how to manage behavior at home.

This camp completely failed our son. He was paired with a much older kid who aggressively took over…read morethe project and didn't let him participate. Our son tried to reason with the kid, tried to get his own materials (which he was scolded for) and tried directly asking the instructor for help, a request which was ignored. I also reported this on an email survey that the camp sent out after the first day but received no reply. We decided to totally skip the last two days and have our son learn coding on his iPad instead because he felt like his time was completely going to waste at Wizbots. I would not recommend this camp to Update to respond to the owner's comment: the camp let's 7 year olds sign up and at no point was I contacted and let know that the age of 7 was too young. As can be seen from other reviews, other 7 year olds do sign up and even have good experiences. The issue here was a lack of intervention against a clear behavioral issue and lack of responsiveness to repeated feedback in real time from my son and myself. I still have never been contacted by anyone from wizbots except via this review.

Great place for kids with both creative, active and engineering type of mind :). Both of my kids (6…read moreyears age difference, very different characters and different genders) have been practicing Wizbots camps and after school programs for years; both really love each of their programs.

The quality of the honey is delish! It's thick and hearty…read more Great on appetizers with a soft cheese. I love it!

From the owner: Now taking deposits for Spring 2019 Nucleus Colonies. I'm producing a limited number of nucs for a…read moremid-April pick-up. Like most queen breeders worth their salt, I choose queens to breed from based on low mite counts, mite resilience, gentleness, honey production, longevity, etc. Nucs will consist of 5 frames of bees. Frames will be Langstroth Deeps made of wood (Mann Lake) with plastic foundation. All frames will be from wax drawn in 2018. Two to three frames will consist of brood in all stages, a feed frame of honey/pollen, and either a foundation frame or an empty comb frame. If managed correctly, they will give you a honey crop your first year. All queens will be grafted from my best queens of 2018, and are guaranteed to be mated and laying solid patterns. With package prices increasing yearly, a nuc is a better choice than ever. Quicker build up, bees that are guaranteed not to abscond (does happen), and a guaranteed laying queen. Bees will be sold in temporary cardboard nuc boxes. Pickup location is still to be determined. I can possibly deliver for a fee if ordering more than 10 nucs. To secure your nuc, please head over to my website to place a $50 non-refundable deposit. Email or call with any questions. If you're on social media, you can check out my beekeeping journey on instagram. I'm @statestreethoney Thanks, Todd

About a year ago, I walked into mathnasium with low self confidence regarding my knowledge in math…read more As an adult, I had struggled with math all of my life, never found it easy, and came to dislike the subject. I decided to go back to nursing school and knew that I would have to take an exam that had a math category. I had been so fearful to take the exam but decided to get the help I needed in math by signing up at mathnasium. I am so happy I did! I not only learned multiple strategies for solving math problems but also had various tutors who made the math fun and actually... easy! Math became understandable which was not always the case for me. I have taken away many life skills I will use from here on out. There are no words to describe how grateful I am for their patience and persistence during my time with them. I would not have passed the math category in the test if it had not been for mathnasium. The national average in the math category for this particular test was at a 68%. I passed the national average and scored a 79%. I highly recommended this center and will continue to tell my friends and family about it. Thank you Sarah and Shellie for everything!

I've been able to help my son with most all of his subjects, but math was one that we found we just…read morecould not work on together effectively. Based on good reviews of the Mathnasium system, impressions from talking with Beatrice and visiting the new location, we got started before the summer started. Getting started was very easy. After a test to see where my son needed help we were given a plan and got started. My child has been attending sessions this summer and will continue throughout this next school year. He is motivated and continues to go to math sessions with enthusiasm. Mathnasium offers incentives for the kids to progress and I have added some of my own at home. My son likes the incentives and he is gaining confidence in his math skills. This will not only help him in math this next year but I believe that confidence will spill over to other areas as well. As a parent I want to help my child but I'm not always able to be as effective as I would like. Beatrice and her staff have provided a great relief for both me and my son by helping him learn what he needs to learn and reinforcing what he already knows. The location has worked out well for us as well. There is always parking and if I need to run a few errands during my child's session, there are a few businesses that I frequent in Sequoia Station which has been super convenient.

It has been over 1.5 years since my last review, and we love the school as much as we did when our…read morechild started school 2+ years ago! Everyone on staff has been incredibly easy and pleasant to collaborate with, and responsive to my questions. The school expanded over the summer to add 2 more classrooms, so that Burkard now has 6 classrooms: K/1, 2/3, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7/8th. Having experienced a few private schools and a public school between my 2 kids, I am confident this is the best environment for my child, for both academic differentiation and SEL support. It's often lamented that parents have to choose the least bad educational option for their 2e kids, but I truly believe this is a great option. We were fortunate enough to be with his amazing 2/3 teachers for 2 years, and have a new set of teachers we love this year, too. Speaking with parents across grades, they also think highly of their teaching teams. My son continues to thrive academically (measured by his overall engagement, as well as MAP testing), and we are very happy with the math differentiation he receives. Each year, I have been pleased with the attention and care the staff takes to make sure he's challenged at the right level. They take great care to plan engaging lessons across ELA, science, social studies and SEL, and incorporate hands on projects regularly to extend their learning. My son regularly shares interesting facts he learned in class! Math is a subject he continues to be passionate about, so I reach out to the school annually for math acceleration. He is given math assessments at the start of each year to determine the appropriate placement, and is given the option of joining a higher level class, or doing independent study in his classroom. We opted this year to have him join the higher level math class on a modified schedule, and we are grateful for the ability to choose the right option for him. The daily SEL teaching is also very well done. Many schools don't have the ability to go in-depth with SEL, but our BT has devised fun games and exercises for the kids to put their SEL knowledge into practice. It was so sweet to hear that my son's 4th grade class taught new recess games to the K/1 class! The BT's keep a close watch throughout the day, so the students are able to learn and play in a physically and emotionally safe environment. When conflicts arise, the staff is there to help the students resolve the issue in an appropriate way. We get daily reports, and twice monthly newsletters sharing what he's learning, so I know he's receiving a high quality education. If your child is at a school that is not meeting their needs, I encourage you to tour the Burkard School. It is truly a gem of a school!

I went to this school for fifth grade and it was fairly abusive. When we had meltdowns they would…read morelock us in a small building and just leave us there. One time my teacher snatched my Pokèmon cards away because I didn't eat. Also I was punished for walking to close to someone and when I tried to explain what I was doing they just upped the punishment level. Do not send your kids here until you want to be paying for years of therapy to come

I learned a lot of life-saving skills. Initially I took this training over 20 years ago and much…read morehas changed. I learn how to use an AED which I had no prior knowledge of until my training. I learned how to give CPR to an infant, child, and adult. The facility was easy to find and had water, coffee, microwave so we could bring our own meals. David, the instructor, was very knowledgeable and you can tell he took pride in his job.

I have to have CPR training every two years for work. San Mateo CPR has a lot of classes at…read moredifferent times for any schedule. Chris was my instructor and did a fantastic job - teaching the class, staying on course, and answering questions succinctly. We did not get out early, which I always look for in any class. They DID provide coffee and tea, which was wonderful! The classroom was small so it limited the size of the class (we had 7 in ours) which was nice. Parking was good, facilities had only one bathroom, which is not ideal. They did have knee pads for us to use if we chose to do CPR on the floor. That was good! Overall I would definitely go here again, and I am hoping they start ACLS so I can take that course from them as well.

Our experience with Morrissey Compton was through Peninsula School during the 2022-2023 school…read moreyear, when management of an unruly third grade class was outsourced to the educational support center. Nearly a third of the students in this class were identified as requiring further evaluation by Morrissey Compton (you do the math of $4,000+ per evaluation) or unable to be served by the school. For those requiring further evaluation, Morrissey Compton's very junior psychologist provided the most general behavioral considerations to justify the evaluations and she was unwittingly used by the school administrators to deny the students' reenrollment. Independent evaluations did not support the observations of Morrissey Compton's psychologist. What was the common finding that Morrissey Compton failed to observe? The class had been left to its own devices due an inexperienced teacher with 1) no establishment of baseline rules, 2) over-reliance on short-term rewards systems long proven to be ineffective, and 3) an attendance record that effectively left the children without anyone in charge. Which is, of course, why the majority of the class ended up leaving the school.

We took our 4 year old son here to meet with a child psychologist. DO NOT GO HERE. $4k down the…read moredrain for a diagnosis that is more harmful than beneficial. I wish we would have waited the 6 months to meet with his developmental pediatrician rather than rush in to an assessment with Morrissey-Compton. There is a reason there is not a wait to meet with a psychologist for your child here- they literally have no idea what they're doing. It's sickening. DO NOT GO HERE.

My son has been with EASE for the past 1.5 years and I have seen a marked difference in his public…read morespeaking skills and his ability to craft a substantiated supporting argument. Dr. Lim is super patient and teaches his students on how to speak with confidence and how to build the pros and cons of opposing points of views. My son also participated in the public speaking competition hosted by EASE. It allowed him to practice speaking publicly without fear. Highly recommend this course for any students who wants to hone their public speaking and speech writing skills.

My son has been attending Mr. Lim's class since 5th grade, from speech-writing in level 1 to public…read morespeaking in level 2, and debate class in the advanced level. Mr. Lim did an excellent job. He cares about his students, and he is very passionate to teach all of them. He reads each student's speech writing and provides them feedback. In level 2, besides giving valuable comments to his students how to make the contents of the speech better, he also requires students to pay attention to their voice, tone, and posture at their speech presentations. Below is the Thank You note from my son to Mr. Lim: After taking this class, I improved my writing and presentation skills, the way I research topics, and how I organize my speeches and essays. It also boosted my confidence in speaking in front of the class. Furthermore, learning debate made me see both sides of an argument and learn cross-examination techniques. Thank you, Mr. Lim!