Know your brain (Part 1)
This month, we’ll examine a part of the brain, its functions, some associate problems, and strategies to help manage or reduce them—often without medication.
Learning at the individual level
Sometimes kids just need a little extra help. And frankly that is okay. All Children learn in various ways, and have different learning styles.
Classroom Secrets: Getting S.M.A.R.T. about goal setting
A few time tested strategies to improve the odds of success—helping you to stay S.M.A.R.T. about your goals.
Five ways to promote literacy and learning through music
Here are five easy ways parents and caregivers can implement music education to improve literacy and learning.
Classroom Secrets: More than words on a page
"Good readers" by today's curriculum, must also be proficient at thinking about and responding to what they read.
From ukuleles to speech arts, festival showcases talent
The Rotary Burlington Music Festival is a competition and an opportunity for amateur musicians to perform before friendly audiences, but above all, it’s designed to be fun.
Classroom secrets: The emotionally intelligent student
Your child might be good at Math, and even better at English, but what about Emotional Intelligence?
How to beat back-to-school clutter
In the back-to-school rush, parents’ best intentions may be buried under kids’ backpacks, homework assignments and missives from administrators. The best offense against back-to-school overwhelm is a strong zone defense at home.
Music education tunes in both sides of the brain
There’s more reason to take up a musical instrument than fulfilling your rock and roll dreams or being the centre of attention at a party.
No place like home school
One foot in the home school door, the other in the public is a looming possibility for this family as September approaches and kids make choices.
Technologically advanced kids
Today’s children grow up in a world filled with electronics, gadgets, multi-media entertainment. Televisions, computers, video games, tablets, smart phones have all contributed to how a child’s brain absorbs new information.
Classroom Secrets: Understanding ideas deeply
Every year I run across students who think they know the material only to find out they were wrong.
Encourage a can-do attitude about academics
A recent study by psychologist Kristin Lagattuta, Ph.D., and her colleagues found parents consistently underestimated kids’ worries and overestimated their optimism.
Trinity Christian School – Christian Education in Burlington
Fifty years ago, our founders had a vision of elementary Christian education that would be accessible to all Christian families in Burlington. Today, Trinity is a thriving community of teachers, students, and parents from almost forty local churches that share a
Use it before they lose it
Summer Learning Loss (SLL) is a real concern, causing students to forget or lose important skills and knowledge they don’t use over the summer
Nurturing self-directed learners
The workings of the modern classroom have changed considerably since I was a student in school
Helping boys and girls learn together
There are no hard and fast rules to learning, but there are often gender differences based on our physiology and evolutionary/cultural heritage
Brighton School designed for students with academic challenges
Brighton is a warm, vibrant school community designed for students with academic challenges in grades 1 to 12. Our secondary school offers a partial credit program and non-credit courses
Life after report cards
Last month schools were in the midst of “reporting season.” Now is the time when you find out formally how your child has been doing in school in the first few months of the year