In education, we are always going to have varying intelligences in our classroom. Because of this, we can never just present a one size fits all curriculum for the students and expect everyone to be fine with it. In every …
This week we chatted with Emily Arens who tutors in math, reading and language arts. Emily has been a teacher for 19 years and specializes in middle school math, gifted math, pre-algebra, and algebra. Tell us a little about yourself. …
If you are a teacher, do you often hear yourself complaining that there is never enough time to do everything? Do you feel overwhelmed and you are only two hours into the school day? Throughout my years in education, I …
Technology has changed the experience of education forever. Traditional schooling started off with a one room schoolhouse. We made a few changes here and there over the next century or so. The one room schoolhouse expanded into a multi-room school, …
“The pen is mightier than the sword.” We’ve all heard this before. Indeed, words have power. Perhaps what we forget at times, however, is the unique power (good and bad) words can have with young learners in particular. The way …
Many students struggle with ways in which to study for their classes. There are many strategies that students can use in order to help them learn and understand definitions, concepts, formulas and content knowledge in order to be successful in …
Any way you slice it, ubiquitous social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram pretty much universally get a bad rap. But what if there was an academic upside to these apps and staples of the adolescence virtual experience? Interestingly, research …
As admission into institutions of higher learning becomes increasingly competitive, parents are looking for more and more ways to get their children a leg-up on the competition; whether this means investing in a test prep course, hiring a “college concierge” …
“What’s up, fam?” While I won’t deny that it sounds stupid, I will admit proudly that I have bonded with students over their ridiculous (to us) slang. Fam: “a way to describe someone you consider family.” (Thanks, Urban Dictionary.) Look, …
Everyone has a story. When we fail to understand others’ stories, we fail to understand their experiences, their perspectives, and their struggles. We can’t truly know someone without knowing his or her narrative. Case in point: I tutored a student …