How much do report cards really tell you about your child’s progress, but more importantly, their potential and future? After all, isn’t going to school all about an end goal of graduating and continuting onto a successful post secondary program? Requirements for formal and informal student progress reporting at school are based on ministerial orders [...]
Anxieties. Fears. Phobias. Nervousness. No matter your age or personality, everyone experiences anxieties and fears throughout their lives, and it never feels good. Recognizing and helping your kids understand how to deal with anxieties can prepare them to handle the unsettling experiences and challenging situations of life. This is the topic for our October 12, [...]
What happens when you get 200 students who love to dance together in one room? Dance Fest 2011! A celebration of athletic, artistic, and creative talent, the third annual Conference of Independent School (CIS) Dance Festival was a huge success on Sunday, May 1, 2011 with more than 200 participating students from seven schools. Dancers, organizers and [...]
Who comes to mind when you think of Black History? Slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. or basketball great Jackie Robinson? It’s likely that 80% of students would default to these two names. This ignorance is what motivated Mary Fears, a school librarian, to team up with director Tyrone Young to produce Filling the Gap – a movie that literarily fills the gaps of African-American history.
“I’m not going to need that, camp is for parents who don’t have school as a babysitter in the summer”.
I was a little taken back to say the least. Those who know me, know that my motto is “there’s a camp for every kid”.
The new documentary, Waiting for Superman” by Academy Award winning director Davis Guggenheim has caused much discussion. He won an Oscar for “An Inconvenient Truth,” about global warming. This time, Guggenheim sounds the alarm about the decline of public education in the United States. “Among 30 developed countries, we rank 25th is math, and 21st [...]
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