Toronto Private School Expo Largest Ever

Jim Huinink
TORONTO-Private-school-expo

This year’s Toronto Private School Expo was the largest ever, with an overall attendance increase of almost thirty percent over last year’s numbers. In spite of the beautiful weather many Toronto families were happy to come to downtown Toronto and spend a few hours inside sunny, warm Roy Thomson Hall to discuss their children’s education [...]

Halton-Peel Expo is a resounding success

Jim Huinink
Oakville schools meet Oakville parents

The Halton-Peel Private School Expo this past weekend was another success, where parents and schools met to discuss the possibility of private school. The event was an unprecedented success in Oakville, with more than 200 families in attendance. As is so often case, parents expressed surprise at the number of options there really are in [...]

3 Advantages to Attending a School Expo

Jim Huinink
Oakville-pic

For nearly a decade now Our Kids Media has hosted private school expos across the country. Over the years we’ve heard many parents exclaim about the unique advantages to an event of this kind. There are three things we keep hearing from parents, said in different ways, that show the absolutely distinctive value of attending [...]

Montreal 2010: “A Terrific Experience”

Jim Huinink
Parents are enthusiastic about meeting schools

The Montreal Private School Expo was held this past weekend, Sunday September 19 at the Hilton Montreal Bonaventure. It was a success far exceeding our high expectations and surpassing last year’s expo in terms of attendance and overall satisfaction. While attitudes toward the economy remain cautious, the success of the expo indicates people’s abiding desire [...]

Ten Amazing Athletes With Boarding School Beginnings

Jim Huinink
Brian Leetch, boarding school grad

With the launch of ExperienceBoarding.ca, we’re celebrating all that makes boarding schools great, while simultaneously dispelling boarding school myths. While there are many misconceptions about boarding school, the ones we’re taking on here are the myth that boarding school is completely focused on academics and the myth that boarding school athletics consists only of field [...]

Is there a coming creativity crisis?

Jim Huinink
Creative minds look at an unreal cube

Last month, Newsweek magazine ran a feature story discussing how “for the first time, research shows that American creativity is declining.” While creativity may seem difficult to quantify, there is in fact a series of tests called Torrance Scores, which have been shown to be remarkably good at predicting kids’ future accomplishments. Children who have [...]

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