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...
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...
Education Is 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 and knowledge. The whole system is built around...
Fact or Fiction, How Do You Discern the Difference? When I was younger, an experience helped me realize fact or fiction isn’t always as obvious as it may seem. I had spent a summer living and working in Rwanda. People travel there from all over the world for a...
Don’t lose sight of lifelong learning as the end goal Are you concerned that your child does not love learning as much as he should? Is he reading for pleasure in a way that suggests he is on a path to lifelong learning? For most parents, the answer to both...