We live in a time when, according to the public media, schools are said to be promoting questionable curricula such as Critical Race Theory and denying parents to be informed should their…
Category: Parental Guidance
How Parents can best support their child navigate successfully through school
How to Help All Students Study Effectively
Students to succeed at school, follow this advice! If you’re grades are so-so, your parents are on your case about improving them you may even say “Okay, okay I’m going to hit…
How to Effectively Engage Students in their Learning
Research from the foremost authorities would all agree that effectively engaging students in their learning is the highest priority for teachers. The question for many teachers is ‘what does that look like?’…
What do School Grades Actually Mean?
Grading student work can be fraught with dangers for both students and teachers. An almost daily request made of teachers is from students asking, “What’s my grade?” A student can reasonably expect…
How Best to Make your Child Happy at School
Will they have a good day…? How to best be happy at school is an aspiration that is very close to both a parents and their child. For the parent, it is…
Homework … Is It Good for Students?
As a veteran teacher of some 30+ years working in inner city schools (and who still is engaged in classrooms as a substitute teacher) I recognize that setting homework is very important…
Creating Home : School Connections (to better benefit my child)
Research shows that students best learn through 1:1 interaction with others. This may be their peers – which isn’t necessarily a good thing as we are warned that ‘bad company corrupts good…
Homeschooling My Child?
As a parent the idea that a school would declares it has a right to withhold critical information concerning my child’s wellbeing is, for me, utterly outrageous! Yet this is currently what…
The most effective protection against being bullied at school.
As a teacher and administrator for over 30 years, I have seen the awful influence of bullying in school. In my role as a teacher, I would speak harshly to students those…
The Magic Word ALL Students Should Know!
There really IS a word that will help ALL students succeed at a higher level in ALL their classes. Yet without direct encouragement to do so I find so many do not…