Critical Thinking is Underrated
Standardized tests… End of the Year Assessments… Grades… Being able to perform well on standardized tests or making good grades in school doesn’t ensure that your student or child knows…
Ideas breed more ideas.
Standardized tests… End of the Year Assessments… Grades… Being able to perform well on standardized tests or making good grades in school doesn’t ensure that your student or child knows…
During my years working in a middle school, I often spent much of my time helping teachers develop activities and lessons geared towards improving expressive language skills. Traditional school lessons contained…
Tonight I stumbled on an amazing and informative documentary on Netflix called, The Beginning of Life. If you work with babies, young children or have children of your own, stop what…
If you are like most families, your house will soon be full of aunts, uncles, and cousins running around playing and having fun. If you have young children who struggle…
If you’ve visited my blog before, you know I love using commercials to help get a conversation going with students about a topic. So, when I saw this Nike commercial…
The ability to appropriately answer abstract questions is an important developmental language skill. In order to accurately answer these questions, children must understand what each question word is asking. See…
Have you ever said this to your child? “When my voice sounds harsh, that means I’m frustrated.” “When I raise one eyebrow up, it means I’m confused.” I’m pretty sure…
“My friends know me so well. They can tell what I’m thinking just by looking in my eyes.” -Jennifer Aniston Jennifer Aniston’s friends must have good social awareness! They are…