"Children are made readers on the laps of their parents." Emilie Buchwald. While your middle or high schooler may be long past sitting on your lap, the sentiment remains true: parental involvement is the cornerstone of building lifelong readers. Summer is officially here, and with it comes the...
Summer enrichment is one of those phrases that sounds clear until a parent tries to plan around it. Many lower school parents are circling the same problem by mid-May: you've got ten weeks, a seven or eight-year-old who will happily watch a tablet for six...
The end-of-year project is two assignments stacked on top of each other. Parents who finish the visible one tend to complete the invisible one too, and that's the one that mattered. It's mid May. The trifold is bowing in the middle because the glue...
The end of the school year sneaks up every June, and somewhere around the first week of the month, the question lands: what to get the teacher. There is no wrong answer here. Teachers are genuinely happy to be thought of, and any gift that arrives with a kind note...
If your child is finishing 4th or 5th grade, there's a phrase about to enter your life that you'll hear constantly for the next few years: executive function. Teachers will use it. Learning specialists will use it. The middle school orientation packet will use it. And...