The Right Approach

Specialties

The Right Approach seeks to bring education back to its fundamentals in two ways. The first is to teach to the individual needs of each learner who walks through our doors. The second is to integrate all learning styles and teach through movement, visual aids, music, and hands-​on activities.

Services:

— Subject Area Support (K-​College)

— Music Lessons (Flute, Saxophone, Trumpet, Electronic Music Lessons)

— Standardized Test Preparation (SAT, ACT, HSPT, STAR, PSAT)

— Differentiated Learning Styles based on Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence Theory

— Drop-​in Homework Help

— Professional Support for students, teachers, and parents

— Summer camp classes

History

Established in 2010.

The Right Approach was founded in response to a growing number of requests from parents in the Bay Area to teach their children. In order for schools to meet the demands of government programs such as No Child Left Behind, children in our community are increasingly exposed to rigorous testing. Many classrooms teachers have conformed their teaching styles to cater to these tests. The result is disastrous; the cookie-​cutter method of teaching is failing to meet the needs of our children and ironically, leaving them further behind. The Right Approach seeks to bring education back to its fundamentals in two ways. The first is to teach to the individual needs of each learner who walks through our doors. The second is to integrate all learning styles and teach through movement, visual aids, music, and hands-​on activities.

Meet the Business Owner

Jamie G.

Business Owner

The Right Approach was founded in 2010 by Jamie Govoni. Jamie is a graduate from The University of Vermont’s prestigious child education program. She was named Student Teacher of the Year in 2002 by university faculty. Jamie moved to California in 2003 and taught middle school for four years. Becoming disenchanted with the state’s insistence of teaching children based on standardized testing, Jamie sought alternative teaching methods. Combining her training from a Bay Area Waldorf teacher program with her knowledge of traditional teaching styles, Jamie’s teaching methods form The Right Approach. She specializes in all subject areas from K-​8, students with learning disabilities and SAT/​ACT English and writing.