About Whitaker And Gilyard Enterprises
Our Values
Mission: To become America’s best and most sustainable source of community education.
Vision:
To provide a physically safe and emotionally secure environment to enhance student learning.
Our Approach
At WAGE we seek to develop knowledge and implement educational practices that create safe spaces where ALL families can gather to learn, make new friends, and have fun while having their needs acknowledged and met. We envision a world that embodies the mantra of Faith, Home, and Community as the center of life in place of Self, School, and the Workplace.
Our Services
Our Services
We offer online and in-person consulting to families with young children. We strive to help parents identify developmental milestones and offer peace of mind as they shape their child's view of learning.
We plan to offer various services to support all families at all levels, including academic tutoring, therapy, coaching, and more. Our
We offer online and in-person consulting to families with young children. We strive to help parents identify developmental milestones and offer peace of mind as they shape their child's view of learning.
We plan to offer various services to support all families at all levels, including academic tutoring, therapy, coaching, and more. Our services will be tailored to the unique needs of each family to ensure the best possible outcomes.
WAGE Founder
Shannon Whitaker is a Greensboro, NC native who moved to Washington, DC to attend Howard University. She volunteered at numerous public and public charter schools and upon graduation became an Early Childhood Education teacher. She earned a Master of Early Childhood Special Education at the University and Maryland at College Park. She has taught in public and private schools in the DC area for 14
Shannon credits her curiosity and love of education to her mother, Linda Whitaker, who is a retired preschool teacher.
She dedicates this business to her mother and peace-loving father, the late Garry Gilyard.
Coaching and Tutoring Services
Coaching
Through my knowledge of developmental milestones and early learning standards, I offer coaching for families with children aged 3-5 years old. This includes strategies for introducing early reading, writing, and math skills as well as the organic incorporation of science and social studies topics and methods of measuring mastery in these areas for future schooling decisions.
Tutoring
Gather Nurture n' Grow Cohorts
We offer drop-in, homeschool-style tutoring sessions for children in the K-5th grade age range. The curriculum includes the following:
- STEAM materials and projects and hands on science experiments.
- Art Lessons from our in-house Art Specialist (Painter, Graphic Designer, Interior Designer).
- Music Curriculum based on Kodaly,Feierabend, and Orff teaching philosophies.
- Weekly exploration of children's books through text and film.
- Portfolio supplementation and data collection.