10 Tips to Get Your Child to Love Reading
It’s clear that when families are engaged in education, everyone wins—schools, families and students! Creating daily family reading experiences helps your children to develop…
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The Importance of Family Reading
Reading gives us two gifts—the gift of understanding and the gift of feeling understood. Every new book you read shows you another life, another…
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Tips for Families from the National Teacher of the Year
Every spring since 1952, a National Teacher of the Year is chosen from among the State Teachers of the Year by a national selection…
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How Can You Prevent Summer Learning Loss?
Summer break is often seen as an idyllic time for teachers, parents and students to take vacations, have fun, and forget about the stress…
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Take The Stress Out of Standardized Tests
The very idea of a test throws some children into a panic. Other children seem to be able to go with the flow and even enjoy…
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Is Your Child on Track for Success?
Schools used to blatantly track students. Students were funneled into high, medium or low groups and, once labeled, they remained in those groups throughout…
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College Countdown: Don’t Let Senioritis Prevent Preparation!
It’s the time of year when most college-seeking students have found out if they’ve been accepted into their school of choice, and for some,…
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Does Your Classroom Have School Smarts?
I’m a proud Californian: In my professional career working with children with learning disabilities, foster youth and migrant families and communities, as well as…
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March is National Reading Month!
A lifelong love of reading begins at home with your family. As Emilie Buchwald once said, “Children are made readers on the laps of…
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The Arts: The Key to Student Success
Do you think the arts in education are a waste of time for your children? Think again! Research shows students who have greater access…
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