When I was a young child, growing up in the early to mid-1980s, there wasn’t much concern about screen time. After all, computers were not household items; we only had four channels on our big console television sets. Certainly, …
More and more high schools require high school students to fulfill several hours of volunteering before they can graduate. As a parent and an educator, I see plenty of positives that go along with asking high school students to contribute …
Kids are excited to find out who their new classroom teacher is and which of their friends are in the same classroom. Even the students who are not all that fond of school are intrigued with the newness of the …
If your child has not started school already for this new school year, they soon will. Districts have begun classes all over the country, and students have let out one substantial dreadful sigh. However, it does not have to …
Whether you are a teacher or a parent, you may have noticed that kids don’t seem to have the best attention span nowadays. And who can blame them? In this world of technology, we all tend to break out our …
With summer upon us, educators often view the next few months just like many students do. It is a time to relax and do a summer reset to come into the next school year ready to go. However, teachers are …
To be a strong educator, you must connect to the students in the classroom and present them with valuable information to help them succeed later in life. This means more than memorizing dates and equations. Educators must provide their students …
Everyone needs a goal to work towards. As adults, we have set many types of goals ranging from paying off our mortgage to starting a family. It provides an idea and an incentive about what we are working towards. It …
As educators and parents, we are always interested in figuring out solutions to problematic issues that students encounter in the school system nowadays. After all, if the kids have fewer problems, then we adults will have fewer problems. There is …
As most of us already know, there is considerable uncertainty about the upcoming school year. Individual school districts are already running while others are waiting until early or mid-September before starting classes. And this is just the beginning. Depending upon …