Setting Your Child Up For Success With Structured Literacy Is your child part of a Structured Literacy program at school, but you are not seeing results? Or is your child a candidate for the program and you are unsure about it? This article helps with both of these...
Less Stimulation, Lost Learning Momentum The aftershocks of the Covid pademic’s impact on learning will likely continue for years. Already, the effects are evident. We’re seeing mental and physical health issues not just in children, but teachers, parents, and...
Phonics Is Always The First Choice The six-episode podcast “Sold a Story” (on Apple podcast here and Spotify here – publisher details here) has caused ripples in educational circles, challenging the process by which new methodologies are introduced and kept in...
If your child is behind, s/he is not alone In 2022, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) conducted the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading and mathematics assessments for age 9 students to examine student achievement during the...
Your Child Needs to Leave School with a Love of Learning While homework and tests are pervasive in the US education system, they can be a distraction. A successful high school education is not about accumulating knowledge, it’s about self-directed learning. If...
Education Should Be About Learning How to Learn – Not Knowledge If your child is attending a mainstream school in the United States, you have probably realized that there is a heavy emphasis on memorization of facts, knowledge. The whole system is built around...