Parents
October 2012
Is Learning a Sport?
Students should not go to school to win - students should go to school to learn. Read more
The Parent-School Relationship: The Importance of Listening
"....I have been part of schools that have constantly told me what to do but never listened to what I had to say.' " Read more
Being Pegged, Late Bloomers and Effort
How 2012 Nobel Prize Winner Dissed by His High School Biology Teacher Read more
Three Great Books to Read Aloud to Your Tweens & Teens (Yes, you heard right)
Interesting that two of these three recommendations have to do with a teacher . . . Read moreNow, keeping in mind these fourfold interests - interest in conversation, or communication; in inquiry, or finding out things; in making things or construction; and in artistic expression - we may say they are natural resources, the uninvested capital, upon the exercise of which depends the active growth of the child..John Dewey, The School and Society, 1900
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