Read Like Rocky on Skool: A Community for Parents

Read Like Rocky’s private Skool community helps parents feel more confident supporting their children in reading, writing, and math. The courses give your child a place to learn and practice. Skool gives you a place to ask questions, get ideas, and talk with other parents about what happens when you try those ideas at home.

Maybe your child can read the words on a page but has trouble telling you what the story was about. Maybe they have plenty to say out loud but freeze when it’s time to write. Or maybe math goes well until one hard problem makes them want to quit. These are the kinds of situations we can talk through together. You’ll get practical ways to respond in the moment, recognize progress, and decide when your child needs a little help or simply more time to try.

You don’t need a teaching background to participate. Bring a question, share an idea that worked for your family, or come to listen. The aim is for you to leave with something you can use the next time you sit down with your child.

What happens each week

Motivational Mondays

On Mondays, we talk about how to help our children get started and keep going with reading, writing, and math. We also talk about motivating ourselves. Some days, the hardest part is finding the energy to try again after yesterday’s lesson ended in frustration.

We’ll explore small changes that can make learning easier to begin: letting your child choose which of two books to read, having them tell you their idea before they write it, or starting math with a problem they know how to solve. We’ll also talk about what to say when a child says, “I’m bad at this,” and how to praise something they can do again: “You drew a picture when you got stuck, and that helped you see what the problem was asking.”

You can bring a situation from home, hear how other families handle it, and pick one idea to try that week.

Technical Tuesdays

Tuesdays are for getting unstuck with technology. If you’re having trouble signing in, finding a lesson, opening a course file, playing a video, or locating something inside Skool, bring the problem to us. We’ll work through it with you and help you find the next step.

Dr. Barker may stop by on some Tuesdays to answer questions. Her son Daniel, our CEO, may also join us to talk about artificial intelligence. Parents can ask what AI is, how children might encounter it at school, and how it could change the kinds of tasks people do at work. These conversations can also help families think about the skills children can build now, such as asking good questions, checking information, and explaining their own thinking. Guest appearances will vary.

Wednesday Workshops

On Wednesdays, we try things out together. You can work with a group or on your own, depending on what you prefer. Workshops are hands-on, and some will include games, challenges, or chances to win prizes.

One week, you might practice asking questions that help a child talk about a story. Another week, you might take a rough sentence and try different ways to help a child make it clearer. A math workshop might have you solve a problem with everyday objects so you can show your child what the numbers mean.

The point is to give you a chance to try the activity yourself, ask questions along the way, and take it home with enough confidence to use it.

Thursday Virtual Meet & Greet

Thursday is an optional virtual get-together. It’s a chance to meet other parents whose children are around the same age, taking the same course, or working through similar lessons.

You might find another parent whose child is also learning to read in Spanish, or someone who has found a way to fit math practice into a busy week. You can swap ideas, talk about how things are going, or just enjoy getting to know people. There’s no assignment or preparation. Come when it works for you.

Friday Q&A with Nancy

On Fridays, Nancy answers parents’ questions about learning. Parents will choose a moderator, and that moderator will select the questions Nancy answers. The focus is on questions that can help several families, such as:

• How can I tell when my child needs help and when I should give them more time?
• What can I do when my child understands a lesson one day and seems to forget it the next?
• How do I respond when my child gets upset after making a mistake?
• How can we get back into a learning routine after missing a week?

Friday is mainly for questions about learning in general. If the group chooses a specific reading, writing, or math question, Nancy can address that too. The moderator helps keep the conversation focused and gives the group a say in what gets discussed.

How Skool helps you support your child at home

You can use the community alongside whatever lesson your child is working on. For example, if your child keeps guessing at words, bring that concern to the community. You might come away with a prompt you can try during your next reading session. If writing feels overwhelming, you could practice helping your child say their idea aloud and write one sentence about it. If your child gets a math answer wrong, you might learn to ask, “Can you show me how you got there?” That gives you a chance to see where their thinking changed and what kind of help would be useful.

You can also use the parent guides and check-ins to see what a lesson is trying to teach and what progress might look like. Sometimes progress is a correct answer. Other times it’s a child showing their work, rereading a sentence on their own, or asking a more specific question when they’re confused. Those moments tell you what your child is starting to do independently and where to focus next.

There’s no need to attend everything. You might come on Tuesday to solve a login problem, watch a workshop replay later in the week, and bring a question to Friday’s Q&A when you have one. Use the parts that fit your family.

Recordings, the private vault, and membership

We record the teaching portion of each lesson, and we do not record participating parents. The replays go into the private member archive so you can catch up if you miss a session or revisit an idea later. Parent discussion stays out of the recording.

The private vault is where members can find additional videos from Nancy, Nancy’s teachers, and guest experts. These resources are available only to Read Like Rocky members.

Parents who are part of a Read Like Rocky membership are welcome in Skool. To protect the privacy of the group, please keep access within the membership. Do not bring nonmembers into the community or its sessions, or share private recordings or vault materials with them. Bringing a nonmember into the Skool community will result in immediate removal from the community.

Whether your child is just starting to recognize letters or is working through high school assignments, you’re welcome to bring the questions that come up in real life. Start with one session or one replay. If it gives you one useful thing to try the next time your child needs help, that’s time well spent.