There’s been so much focus on what’s being taught in our schools’ classrooms that parents and even their adolescent and teenage children often are unaware of what learning opportunities lie beyond the traditional school day. So much can be added after school hours to...
“Success will always be with you as long as you place safety as the first priority.” — Anonymous There was a time when acts of violence on U.S. school campuses were pretty much confined to an occasional after-school fistfight, a brief altercation between...
“We need technology in every classroom and in every student and teacher’s hand because it is the pen and paper of our time, and it is the lens through which we experience much of our world.” –David Warlick, educator, author, programmer Technology has impacted our...
“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.” – E.M. Forster, British author and essayist. We pay a lot of attention these days to curriculum content, classroom teaching strategies, and other teaching-directed resources as the primary...
“Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.” – Philosopher Roger Bacon 1214-92 Few would argue that mastering one or more foreign languages isn’t an important accomplishment for people to be able to communicate with ease in different cultures and countries. ...
“Diversity – All of our human differences” – From a Queensborough Community College article Schools throughout much of the developed world have added numerous resources in recent years to enhance the quality of teaching and learning taking place in their young...
