What We Do
Mint Educational Consulting provides dyslexia therapy, educational consulting services, and psycho-educational evaluations to ensure all clients reach their full academic potential.
Who is Mint Education Consulting?
Mint Education Consulting is passionate about increasing the academic achievement of all children. It is essential that students, parents, and teachers have the tools necessary for success in an ever-changing society; and determining the tools necessary begins with assessment.
Mint Education Consulting's mission is to ensure all students are able to achieve their maximum potential by teaching and assisting students, parents, and teachers nationally. We do this through conducting academic and psychological assessments, facilitating parent and school education, and providing instruction and strategies to ensure each child successfully achieves their highest potential.
What Mint Education Consulting does?
Mint Educational Consulting provides educational consulting services that ensure all clients reach their full academic potential by providing reading tutoring (Read with Mint Education Consulting), academic consulting services (Ask Mint Education Consulting), and comprehensive academic evaluations that produce concrete and practical steps towards academic solutions and goals.
All services provided by Mint Educational Consulting are conducted by licensed and certified BCBAs, child psychologists, learning disabilities teacher consultants, social workers, and Orton Gillingham Teachers knowledgeable in the areas of special education law, cognitive and educational assessments, assistive technology, best teaching practices, and so much more.
To learn more contact Mint Education Consulting today!
Our Founder
Welcome.
Greetings! I’m Chase Wesley, an educational diagnostician and dyslexia therapist. My interests include academic assessment and the reading development and instruction of students with learning differences.
A bit of background about me
After graduating from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor,MI, I became a teacher through Teach for America in Newark, New Jersey. I was placed as a special education teacher in a language learning special education classroom and was “green”…beyond “green” and hadn’t the first clue about individualized education plans or multi-sensory instruction.
Even as a special education neophyte, sixteen families entrusted me with their children - all of whom had learning differences and were eager to learn.
My students taught me a lot that first year, namely what “grit” and sheer determination look like when something is not just difficult, but darn near impossible, as well as, what a community of trust looks like, when one believes they may not be good at something but trust their “teammates” will still be encouraging. I’m grateful for that first class as they extended those same courtesies to me.
Due to my first couple of years as a special education teacher, I made it my mission to learn how to tackle learning challenges of students with specific learning disabilities such as dyslexia and dysgraphia. I was determined to find strategies that worked, not just strategies that sounded good in theory.
I’ve spent over a decade teaching students with learning differences, developing curriculums and programs for children requiring specialized instruction, training teachers, and assessing children with learning challenges.
I founded Mint Education Consulting to share the researched and tested strategies I’ve learned along the way with students, parents, and educators and am looking forward to connecting with each of you. If there is a topic you’d like covered during one of our blog posts or you just want to reach out to say, “Hi!,” please don’t hesitate –– our “door” is always open!
To bringing out the best in your child,
Chase
Education and Certifications:
M.Ed in Special Education
Orton Gillingham Teacher certified through International Multi-sensory Structured Language Council
Structured Literacy Dyslexia Specialist certified through the Center for Effective Reading Instruction
Wilson Dyslexia Practitioner certified through the Wilson Language Training Center
Nationally Certified Educational Diagnostician
New Jersey State Certifications:
Learning Disabilities Teacher Consultant
Teacher of Students with Disabilities
Elementary Teacher in Grades K-5
Elementary School with Subject Matter Specialization: Language Arts Literacy Specialization in grades 5-8
Teacher of Supplemental Instruction: Reading and Mathematics, Grades K-8
Stamps of Approval
See what the MEC Community has to say about working with Mint Education Consulting.
Parent Feedback
“The work Chase does is amazing! I never heard Sean, my son read like that before. Very impressed.”
- MEC Client
Parent Feedback
“To teach is to touch a life forever." Working with you has been life-changing for our daughter! She not only has become a much more confident reader...she has also learned to actually ENJOY reading. Your dedication, compassion, and expertise have been invaluable. Thank you for all you have done for our daughter. We feel blessed to have had the pleasure of working with you!”
- MEC Client
Parent Feedback
“We are eternally grateful for your help with our daughter's evaluation process. It was because of your expertise in your field that made an incredible impact on the outcome of her eligibility during her meeting. You care and you are passionate that children get the services that are best for your "young" clients and it shows :).”
-MEC Client
Frequently Asked Questions
Commonly asked questions are answered here.
How are educational evaluations completed?
Here's how Mint Education Consulting conducts educational evaluations:
An initial conference will be held with you in which the areas of challenge and strengths are discussed. This initial conference can be in person or as a video conference.
Various academic assessments will be used to not only determine your child's current academic levels but pinpoint areas for growth.
An observation in the student’s learning environment
We will also receive input from the child, parents, teachers, and school around academic strengths and challenges
A follow-up conference in which the results, observations, and recommendations are discussed and presented in a report.
If you have additional questions about educational evaluations, please don't hesitate to reach out. Go to Contact Us and send us an email or sign up for an “Ask MEC” session - we look forward to hearing from you.
How are consultations completed?
Depending on the question and nature of the consultation, we may ask you to send us information in advance and then we will meet either in-person, by phone, or video conferencing to discuss your question(s) and help you figure out a solution or next steps. For additional information please don't hesitate to email us, learn and schedule an “Ask MEC” session.
How are tutoring services offered?
Currently, only tutoring in the area of reading is offered. Tutoring services are offered virtually or in-person (if you are in the northern NJ/NYC area) at a specified location determined by the parent and Mint Education Consulting. When scheduling your on-line sessions, your unique on-line learning link will be emailed to you. You can learn more and enroll in Read with Mint Education Consulting here.
Which tutoring methods does Mint Education Consulting use for reading?
Mint Education Consulting uses the following methods for reading tutoring: Orton Gillingham or the Wilson Reading System.
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