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Who knew mathematicians attended conferences to discuss the complexities of their field? Graduate student, Lisa Piccirillo went to one two years ago where she learned about the Conway Knot, a seemingly impossible problem to solve. Knots...
Growth mindset: where you are is where you are now. Musician John Legend was four years old when he first sat down at a piano. Today he’s an EGOT (winner of all four major awards in the...
So often, our kids are measured by how they perform on tests and where they rank among their peers in academics and extracurriculars. But learning isn’t confined to lessons taught at school and a kid’s potential...
We’re in a unique position right now — balancing work and family in ways we never have before. Kids naturally like to play the role of grown-up and right now our worlds are pretty much the...
The local community college has a Saturday Kids to Kollege program. They offer classes for 5 – 14 year olds. I looked at the catalog with my son. I thought he’d pick robotics, pint-sized chemistry, or...
“I’m so bored. There’s nothing to do.”Sweeter words have yet to be spoken, because being bored actually opens up a whole world of possibilities. Kids who are bored can push their imaginations into high gear. That’s...
WOOP at Home is an activity to help your kid find and fulfill wishes that are important to them. WOOP stands for Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, Plan. Download this 10-minute activity to help your kid through the...
Goal-setting is an essential skill that helps people of all ages pursue interests, develop essential skills, find purpose, and contribute to the world around them. Help your kid set and achieve goals with the Self-Directed Learning...
Have you ever heard the old adage that positive thinking is the key to success? While it’s well-intentioned advice, research has proven it wrong—positive thinking is actually correlated with lower energy, physical and mental health, and...
After several weeks of shelter-in-place, you may feel like you’ve got this work/school-at-home thing down. But when your kid powers up that Chromebook and there’s a list of all of the assignments to be completed by...
“Kids who are intrinsically motivated engage in a behavior because it’s personally rewarding. They like doing it.”Are you bribing your kids with chocolate, stickers, and endless hours of screen time to do schoolwork, household chores, or...
As parents, we can help our kids gain the self-directed learning skills they need by helping them break things down into bite-sized chunks.When your kid is at school, their teachers use a concept called “scaffolding” to...
Successful people will tell you that the ability to do meaningful and ambitious goal-setting has been the key to their success. Start each morning thinking about what is happening that day, what it will require, and...
"Picasso would never have gotten into Stanford's visual arts program unless he had fantastic SAT scores."- Todd Rose, Co-founder and President of the Center for Individual Opportunity, faculty member at the Harvard Graduate School of Education Standardized...
This spring, school districts across the country did something once thought unthinkable. They canceled their annual high-stakes standardized testing due to the COVID-19 crisis and the world did not come to an end.There’s a silver lining...