Just because zoos, museums, and historical sites have announced temporary closures doesn’t mean that you can’t experience the world virtually! Here is a list of zoo cams, virtual tours, and STEM resources that your family can experience without ever stepping outside. Best of all, it’s free! Zoo
Read more →Our hearts reach out to our community as school districts across the area close to slow the spread of COVID-19. We have helped educate hundreds of students from our local public schools and value our partnerships with the districts, their administrations, and their hardworking teachers. Below are
Read more →Dr. Melodee Loshbaugh founded Northwest Academy in Woodinville over ten years ago with the mission to kindle the natural love of learning found within every child. As a veteran public school teacher Dr. Mel saw some students thrive in a traditional school setting while others struggled, became
Read more →The 1987 movie Summer School typifies our view of remedial summer school. Students cooped up in a classroom trying to re-take the credit courses they failed during the school year. Shift to 2015 and actual summer school, while more professional than the movie portrayal, strays very little
Read more →A student’s school years are too critical to risk sacrificing their spirit and love for learning. If something isn’t working, it must be changed. Several years ago as I was writing the introduction for our first website, I found myself using the term “designer education” to describe what Brock’s Academy does
Read more →Learning sight words can be a huge challenge for a child with dyslexia. If you have a child struggling with reading you may have already spent hours looking into sight words, high frequency words, Dolch words or even if sight words are the right way to help your
Read more →Many of us just received report cards and progress reports informing us of our children’s performance in school. How did you feel about them? How did your child react to the results? If the grades and remarks were less than favorable, now may be a good time
Read more →Your child has more private and public alternative school options than ever before. An alternative school has a custom learning environment unencumbered by the traditional classroom model. Alternative schools may be publicly funded charter school or private schools. They range in size from large K-12 schools to
Read more →Yeah for my son’s elementary school librarian! My son came home excited about the Flappy Bird game he coded during library time. My junior high son wanted to see it and then for the next hour the two of them coded a Star Wars game we all
Read more →March 2016 is the roll-out date for the new SAT. David Coleman, CEO of The College Board who creates the SAT exam, stated the test was changed because, “admissions officers and counselors have said they find the data from admissions exams useful but are concerned that these
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