Back to school means back to homework, tests, and pop quizzes. Such drastic changes from the freedom of summer to the structure of school can be stressful to students, parents, and teachers. To ease into the school year and beyond,…
Back to school means back to homework, tests, and pop quizzes. Such drastic changes from the freedom of summer to the structure of school can be stressful to students, parents, and teachers. To ease into the school year and beyond,…
When my children were young, my husband’s business sent him across the state every few months. We viewed these endeavors as educational field trips and visited tiny museums in Daytona, zoos huddled behind landfills in Naples, and every science museum…
Every year, the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) selects a number of teaching trends to track. For 2014-15, NAIS, a nonprofit membership association that advocates on behalf of its 1,700 independent private schools and educational organizations, chose four themes…
Growing up, summer was a time of swimming, riding my bike, reading, and relaxing. I faced each day with ebullience until that fateful day when I would enter the local department store with my mom and note with a sudden…