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The Date Doesn’t Matter: Getting Past Simple Date Memorization in History Classes
Memorizing dates is not the most effective way to understand history. This blog post explains why and gives you permission to get to the fun stuff.
Can You talk to Deaf People from all over the World?! Is ASL Universal?
Have you asked yourself or anyone else these questions before? Do you know the answer? The answer is in the name: American Sign Language.
Parents Who Work and Homeschool: 3 Ways to Balance the Priorities
Can parents work full-time and homeschool their children concurrently? There are many different ways to balance the demands of the workplace and homeschooled students’ educational development.
Does My Student Need Economics? Personal Finance? Or Both?
The study of economics is essentially the study of how and why people make the choices they do. Wait a minute. Isn’t economics about money? Yes, sort of. Money is how we assign value to the choices that we make. Every choice we make is a determination of how we...
Word Problems in Math Class: An Important Oxymoron
Why are word problems important in elementary school math? What skills does solving word problems help students develop? How do word problems benefit my math student? These are questions many of us ask as we help math students solve word problems. After all, this...
Can Two Negatives Really Create Something Positive?
Is watching your child struggle in math really such a bad thing? A positive times a positive is positive, a positive times a negative is negative, a negative times a negative is positive. What?? Ughh? Sigh? Head drops to table. To connect this to a personal real-life...
The Importance of Proofreading: Easy Tips for Building a Lasting Habit
Why is it important to proofread your writing? Written language allows us to communicate with each other and document our thoughts and understandings for future generations, which is important in industry, academia, and personal life. While people may often associate...
Why Mastering Strong Paragraph Writing Is Crucial For Essay Writing
Why is it important to understand, apply, and master strong paragraph writing before moving on to essay writing? Practically anyone can put together a paragraph of 5 sentences. But is it constructed properly? Do your sentences flow to form a well thought out paragraph...
Windows and Doors: Discover the Value of Learning a Foreign Language
Learning a second language can open unexpected doors in a person’s life. As is often the case for many school subjects, students ask why it is worth their time and effort to study the material. There are subjects that have obvious and immediate applications in the...
You Don’t Have to Agree with Your Teacher (And Other Secrets for Analyzing Literature)
The first secret of literary analysis is that you don’t have to agree with your teacher. Yep, I said it. While some people try to fit literature into tidy boxes, genres, and purposes, my favorite high school English teachers and college professors encouraged...
How Can Studying Psychology Help Me TODAY?
Why study psychology? I get asked this question a lot. After 20 years of creatively trying to inspire the asker of the question to see how amazing and far-reaching experience in the field of psychology can be, I have some pretty nifty answers. Do you ever have contact...
Need A COVID-Friendly Fun Family Activity?
Are you and your children tired of being stuck inside because of COVID? Is everyone tired of the same old thing? Well, here’s something fun you can do to get everyone excited about getting outdoors again. Go geocaching! What’s Geocaching, you ask? Geocaching is a fun...
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