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 →Some high school students are simply late bloomers. Some lack the maturity to tailor daily work habits to align with long-term goals, others may have struggled socially, struggled with a subject or had a difficult time transitioning into the new high school environment. As confidence builds these
Read more →Research shows illness, both physical and mental, is a top reason why students miss school. Research also shows that students who missed more than 18 days of school were two times more likely to fail the required English standardized tests. Eighteen missed days works out to approximately
Read more →April is National Poetry month and hopefully your children have been engaged in multi-sensory poetry related activities at school to help the genre come alive. If you cringe at the thought of reveling in poetry, take breath and realize that your exposure to poetry may not have
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 →Pi Day has always been fun for math lovers. But what if your child has dyscalculia? Is it even reasonable to expect them to get excited about a number, even if it’s pi? The answer is yes, if you celebrate Pi Day in a way that suits
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
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