With so many school closures, parents are becoming increasingly responsible for their kids schooling at home.  One topic that parents might consider exploring with their kids is the idea of exponential math in relation to this pandemic. There’s been a lot in the news about the exponential rise in the number of cases of the...Read More

With mass school closures around the United States (and the world), parents are finding themselves needing to get up to speed on teaching their kids at home.  We educators, who have been at it for decades, have an obligation, I believe, to share what we know about learning and education, to help parents through this...Read More

With the advent of the global pandemic from the coronavirus, many schools have been shut across the United States and elsewhere in the world, leaving countless parents with the unanticipated task of teaching their kids at home.  In many cases, your schools will assign work to complete during this hiatus.  But if they don’t, or...Read More

You’re child is a genius.  No, I don’t mean that your child is an Einstein or a Picasso or a Martha Graham.  I’m using the word ”genius” in its original meaning which relates to ”giving birth” (e.g. genesis) and ”bringing pleasure” (e.g. genial).  Thus, being a genius means giving birth to joy, and I believe...Read More

Most educators are familiar with at least three different categories of assessments: Formative assessments – which are essentially ”on the fly” assessments that provide a snapshot of where students happen to be with respect to their on-going competence on a subject being assessed; these assessments have been increasingly used over the past two decades; Summative...Read More