By the second week of June, most families have a report card in hand, and somewhere in it, usually near the top, sits a sentence like "a pleasure to have in class." It reads as a compliment, and often it is one. Sometimes it is the polite thing...
"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 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...
Course selection season is happening right now. Most parents don't know what their child's transcript is being measured against. The conversation happening in a lot of houses this month A version of this exchange is taking place at dinner tables across the country right now. A...
If you're the parent of a middle schooler, the course assignment email for next year either just landed in your inbox or it will soon. And for a lot of families, that email raises a question that's hard to answer from the outside: how did the...