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We’re making some creative, innovative choices for how our kids are learning this year. We’re on alert to pivot as schools react to increases and declines in the number of COVID-19 cases by opening or closing...
The workforce of tomorrow will look very different from that of today. According to a 2018 jobs report by the World Economic Forum, it is estimated that 65% of kids entering elementary school today will end...
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...
Tip_Parent-to-Teacher-Letter-by-Prepared-Parents.png 99.43 KBDuring this sequester, the parents of the 55.1 million K-12 students in the United States have assumed a role we readily admit we were not prepared for: supervising our kid’s learning. Pre-pandemic, we looked...
Use the Parent-to-Teacher Letter to flip the script on the parent-teacher conference. Share your family’s stay-at-home schooling experience with your kid’s teacher. Use the letter to elaborate on the skills and habits your kid developed and...
Parents around the country are getting creative with ingenious responses to the uncertainty of school as we continue to endure COVID-19. Here are just a few of the options they’re choosing:Hiring facilitators to work with similarly-aged kids...
"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...
65% of kids entering elementary school this year will go on to work in as yet unnamed fields, so how do we prepare them for the future? According to Forbes, employers consider five power skills to...