Foundations For Learning

Learning & Children

Foundations for Learning is an educational program which addresses the development of the whole child-supporting physical, intellectual and emotional growth. This individualized program focuses on working with each child's strengths along with their challenges. It is designed to help maximize a child's overall potential while developing the skills, faculties and abilities necessary for learning. As a result performance in school, athletics, and social relationships improve as natural abilities shine forth.

Foundations for Learning is a fun, engaging and challenging program for children and young adults, kindergarten through high school age.

Sessions focus on:

Gross motor movement
Fine motor skills
Handwriting
Coordination and balance
Motor planning
Attention and focusing
Creative expression

Sessions help to improve:

Alertness
Self esteem
Self-discipline
Sensory-motor processing
Math skills
Spelling and reading
Enthusiasm for learning

"You learn to move and move to learn"
- Dr. Robert Strauss,
Director of San Antonio Busy Bodies, Motor Learning Center

Foundations for Learning combines remedial education practices with the best methods from the field of movement education into a holistic process for learning. The program addresses each child at their developmental stage and presents a multi-sensory approach to learning.

Each child is evaluated at the beginning of their program and at subsequent points to document their progress. The program is offered throughout the school year. Sessions are offered in individual, semi-private and small group classes.

Jane Clanton Bick designed the program from her extensive background in education. She has drawn from her over twenty-five-year career in education and has combined her background in remedial education with her study of movement education, developmental learning, and the expressive arts. Ms. Bick is a certified Waldorf resource teacher and early childhood educator and is also certified in the Alexander Technique for psychophysical re-education. She received an undergraduate degree in psychology, movement and theatre from Virginia Commonwealth University and has also studied at the Sunbrigde College, Hunter College graduate school in New York, and Southwest Texas State University.

Ms. Bick's career has included kindergarten, elementary through middle school and university teaching. She has also worked with students with both learning differences and attention related disorders, in Austin, Texas. Ms. Bick currently works with children in her private practice and at private schools. She also offers workshops for and consults with parents and schools.