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Why a Boarding School Can Make a Big Difference
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...
Helping Boys Become Bold, Brilliant, and Self Confident
“When I wear my Army and Navy Academy uniform, I beam with pride. Here I see myself through the admiring eyes of teachers, family, and friends who believe I will accomplish my dreams … I can’t imagine being anywhere else.” --Current Army and Navy Academy Cadet A...
Superior Education Begins With a Safe School Campus
“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 opposing...
Academy’s ‘Belief in the Boy’ Emphasis Attracts Interest
“This is a wonderful place for boys to learn leadership, responsibility, character and the many skills needed to become engaged, purposeful, and contributing citizens… ANA is providing my son opportunities to be the best he can be and as an ANA parent, I could not be...
Technology is Transforming Classroom Teaching and Learning
Technology has impacted our daily lives at lightning speed over the years to help us do things we’ve never been able to imagine.
More Emphasis on Learning is Key to Quality Education
These days, we pay a lot of attention to curriculum content, classroom teaching strategies, and other teaching-directed resources as the primary strategies that comprise a quality education.
The ‘Why, When and How’s’ of Learning a Foreign Language
There are many important reasons for learning a foreign language beyond fulfilling a graduation or college entrance requirement. Pandatree.com lists several reasons for children to learn a foreign language well before they enter high school.
10 Ways Athletics Can Ramp Up Success in Teenagers
In recent years, scientists who study the human brain have found that physical activity increases cognitive development.
Millennials Face Several Financial Problems
Enter the Millennial generation whose members were born between 1980 and 1995 and who were the first to come of age in the new millennium. They became widely known for being especially “tech-savvy,” interested primarily in pursuing their passions, and whose consumer and business habits are thought to have killed several industries.
STEM PROGRAMS PREPARE STUDENTS FOR FUTURE SUCCESS
Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics are the topics of today’s young people that will prepare them to succeed in tomorrow’s world of work.
How Teamwork Builds Successful Adults
Teamwork is an essential part of any successful endeavor in modern life. It is especially so in the highly competitive workplace where the ability to work as part of a team is one of the most important skills in today’s job market.
Why and How Diversity Matters in Our Schools
Diversity awareness helps young people make more of their lives by introducing unique perspectives from multiple sources that prepare them to become enlightened and productive adults.
What’s Different About the “iGen” Generation
To suggest that a generation of young adults now in their mid-20’s and 30’s is becoming socially irrelevant may seem somewhat rash but the Millennials are being moved over by an even younger population.
How to Gain Admission to Colleges – the Right Way
Few occasions are as stressful in the lives of college-bound high school seniors (and their parents) as the time when they wait anxiously to learn whether they’ve been accepted into the college of their choice.
How to Prepare Students to Succeed at Boarding Schools
More parents nowadays are considering boarding school for their children, but they need to take steps to adjust to a learning environment that’s completely different from a private or public school in their hometown.
Safety Comes First on School Campuses
There was a time when acts of violence on school campuses in the U.S. were pretty much confined to an occasional after-school fistfight or an altercation on a football field, but things are different now and it has became abundantly clear to all in recent years that safety in schools must come first.
Teaching Youth Values and Life Skills Helps Overcome Social and Economic Adversities
Regardless of their social and economic backgrounds, all young people need to be trained early on how to meet and overcome challenges and other forms of adversity.
School Aviation Programs Respond to Critical Shortage of Pilots
The future of our nation and that of other developed countries is literally up in the air, due in large part to a growing worldwide shortage of commercial and military pilots.
How Boarding Schools Prepare Young People for College
Boarding schools provide the away-from-home living environment where children can develop the personal independence skills they’ll need for college later.
Why Lacrosse is the Sport of Choice of Today’s Youth
The interest and popularity of lacrosse has mushroomed over the decades to become the fastest growing sport today in U.S. high schools and colleges.
Good Manners Matter in Preparing for Success in Life
“Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.”
Courage is Key to Being Prepared for an Unsure Future
Personal character is the primary trait that produces personal courage. Both are learned traits, gained from observing them in role models and formal character development orientation,
Boarding Schools: Where Learning Never Stops
There’s been so much focus on what’s being taught in our schools’ classrooms that we’re apt to forget what needs to happen beyond the traditional school day
Got GRIT? – Teens Shouldn’t Leave Home Without It
Teaching teens to cultivate grit is teaching them to believe that their personal and professional success is in their own hands. Not a bad way to begin the journey through a life of success.
Effective Communication is Key to Resolving Conflicts
Conflict is unavoidable. When humans interact with each other, there is an eventual certainty that different personal preferences, ideas, likes, and dislikes will create conflict.
Just Who is the ‘iGen’ Generation and How Are They Different?
Just Who is the ‘iGen’ Generation and How Are They Different? The 74 million young Americans born between 1995 and 2012 comprise the most important generation in the nation’s history.
There’s a Critical Need to Build a Moral Compass in Our Teens: Here’s How
In the wake of the 2002 national “No Child Left Behind” educational initiative, it appears that plenty children have been and continue to be left behind when it comes to developing character, morality, and ethics as standard behaviors.
Grit Seen As Major Predictor Of Success For Teens
It seems courage, follow-through, resilience, and excellence – collectively referred to as “grit” — are in short supply among today’s youth.
Additional Approaches Needed to Enhance Student Learning
While academic content and teaching strategies are important in planning children’s education, there are at least two more ingredients needed in a quality education.
Large Number of Teens Need a Moral Compass, Studies Show
Beyond school classrooms, there are character education resources that parents, grandparents and other adult role models can use to instill basic moral and ethical values in teenagers.
