Mrs. Debbie Elder, Owner of Set Them Up For Success, is a graduate of Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada and a former police officer with the Ottawa City Police Force. She then moved to Calgary, Alberta where she was a youth worker in charge of the disciplinary unit of a secure custody facility for young offenders. Within this organization she was promoted to the position of Labor Relations Coordinator responsible for mediating between staff, management, and the Union. Mrs. Elder left this position to work as an educator with the John Howard Society, teaching high school law and Introduction to Canadian Law at the University of Calgary. After the birth of her first child, she decided to open her home to troubled teens and was voted the Therapeutic Foster Parent of the year in 1993. Upon her arrival in Houston, Mrs. Elder worked as a preschool teacher and ran her own Behavior Management Consultant business helping teens, families, and Corporate America by providing training in Leadership and Interpersonal Communication skills. As a professional educator and speaker, Mrs. Elder traveled the nation training teachers and parents in motivation techniques and success strategies. She remains a tutor and Success Coach for elementary through college age students and their families. In January 2004 she joined the New American School team and is presently the Executive Director of the school.

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NEW American School
Visit http://www.newamericanschool.com

From the website...

We help people acquire the skills and knowledge they need to be successful in
Education, Business, and Life.

We do this by:


Providing Learning Programs –

Our Ultimate Learning Program Accelerates and Enhances your ability to READ-STUDY-TEST-WRITE Better and Faster. Based on the the principles developed by Howard Berg, “the World’s Fastest Reader,” this program provides strategies and techniques to learn and perform Better and Faster.

Our College Bound Student Program Prepares, Packages, and Positions your students for college success with College Advisory and Planning Services, PSAT/ACT/SAT Skills, and tracking students through the College Selection-Application-Funding-Enrollment process.

Our Advanced Academic Program provides your student with an integrated, flexible, customized middle and high school curriculum tailored to the individual student – from Special Needs Students to the Ambitious, Accelerated Student to the Adult Student who needs to complete High School – and all of this on your PC!

Our Personal Mentoring-Advising-Coaching Team provides Academic Mentoring for your students using our Advanced Academic Program, Education and College Advising, and Parent and Student Coaching on Homeschooling, Parenting, Student Motivation, and Personal Performance. Partnering with Families, Organizations, Institutions, and Businesses to do this for their Members –


We serve an international Network of Homeschool Families who have students in our online academy.We serve our own nationwide System of Satellite Schools that provide our programs in a personal, private educational environment. We serve a growing Constellation of Client Schools that use our programs and outsource one or more of their functions to us.
Preparing Others to do this in their Own Organizations & Businesses –

We Train and Prepare Homeschool Moms to earn $2,000 – $5,000 (and more) a month in their own businesses. We Train and Prepare Public and Private School Teachers to set up their own Network Schools using our programs.
We Train and Prepare Organizations like Churches, Homeschool Groups, and Service Organizations to set up their own Schools, Learning Centers, and Educational Programs.We Train and Prepare independent business people to set up their own College Preparation Business using our programs.We Train and Prepare Businesses to provide enhanced and enriched Training, Development, and Knowledge Management programs to help them run more efficiently and effectively.We offer Business Opportunities to Affiliates and Associates to join with us to help more people with our programs.

National Homeschool Academy
Visit http://www.nationalhoeschoolacademy.com

From the website...

The National Homeschool Academy is an affiliate of NEW American School, Inc. established to specifically serve the unique opportunities of homeschooling families.

The National Homeschool Academy is the ultimate source for your homeschooling blueprint for your child's success in Middle School and High School. We make learning better, faster, and fun! Best of all, our successful college preparatory program can be completed online, so no matter where you live, our program can work for you!

National Homeschool Academy uses a comprehensive approach to education, giving our students the tools needed for success. We include full curricula for 6th through 12th grade that can be customized for your needs whether it is a single course or a full year program, comprehensive college planning for the high school or adult student, a truly unique learning system, and personal mentors for both parents and students.

Using our program and applying our strategies, many of our students have graduated early from high school with academic scholarships in recognition of their scholastic achievements.

Our program is self-paced, complete, and delivered through a combination of on-line and DVD formats. We can tailor our curricula to meet your needs. Better still, we teach students how to learn - ways to make the learning process easier!