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About Active Learning Services

Active Learning Services, located in Boulder, Colorado, was established in 1973 by Sylvia Keepers, a skilled teacher whose many students have gone on to successful academic and business careers.  For over thirty years she has helped young people and adults develop a love of learning as they master the disciplines of reading and writing.

In the quiet, positive learning environment of Active Learning, Sylvia's mentoring approach encourages personal growth as students acquire the literacy skills they need.  She also shares her experience and skills with other tutors, teachers, and homeschool parents.  In addition, Active Learning Services provides important adult education programs for adult learners and career education opportunities for teachers.

At Active Learning Services: 

• parents can find tutoring for their child in reading, writing, study skills, and test preparation

• adults can receive academic and organizational coaching

• homeschool parents can expand and hone their own homeschooling skills and acquire new tools for educating their children 

• teachers can learn the art and business of tutoring from a master teacher

Teaching through interconnected step-wise
activities and exercises

Sylvia Keepers is a veteran teacher with a wealth of experience, enthusiasm and skill to bring to her job, whether it is teaching a young child to read, helping a teenager get organized, or mentoring another tutor.

During her teaching career, Sylvia has developed a series of interconnected, step-wise learning activities to teach all phases of the reading and writing process.  Hundreds of students have benefited from these exercises, which cover everything from learning the alphabet to understanding literary symbolism. 

These activities are the basis of Sylvia's own tutoring and the curriculum of her "how to tutor" course for prospective tutors.  They also are at the heart of her forthcoming book, Smart!  A Reading Tutor's Guide, Spring 2013.  Please visit Keystone Court Press for a synopsis and sample chapter.

Qualifications and experience

• Degree in education, 1961, University of Denver

• Tutor: private, individual language arts instruction, including curriculum planning and educational counseling since 1973

• English as a Second Language instructor, Littleton Public Schools

• Boulder resident since 1987. Experience working with students and teachers from all the public schools and many independent schools

• Instructor and coordinator for homeschool families

• Mentor and trainer for elementary and secondary language arts tutors

• Speed reading instructor, University of Colorado Continuing Education

“You have saved a child’s life.”

—Mother of a seventeen-year-old son in the
Active Learning homeschool program

This fourth-grader raised his reading skills three grade levels in a year.

“You have not only helped our son, you have helped our entire family.”

—Parents of a 14-year-old who suffered a head trauma, and had to completely re-learn to read

Active Learning programs are highly flexible and individualized, and include programs for children with ADD, ADHD, dyslexia, and other learning disabilities and challenges.  Please call or email me to set up a time to discuss your student's needs.  I am happy to provide references from students and their families.

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