Almost every parent with a gifted child asks themselves the questions: should my child skip a grade, and how will it affect them? For some gifted students, skipping a grade can have adverse affects to their emotional development as well …
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Is My Child Ready for the SAT or ACT?
Whether you have a senior with limited remaining test dates, or you’re simply planning ahead, you may have asked yourself this question: “ Is my child ready for the SAT or ACT? ” I’ll be the first to admit that …
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How Does a Healthy Diet Affect Academic Performance?
When we think about ways to improve academic performance in school, we often think about reading, studying, taking extra classes and making sure not to watch too much TV. Nutrition is often overlooked even though a healthy diet from a …
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Teacher Survey: What Do Students Need to Work On Most?
Sometimes a report card doesn’t tell the whole story when it comes to how well your child is doing at school. In fact, many behaviors and interactions in class can tell you just as much or more about your child’s …
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10 Most Common Mistakes Made in English
Between grammar, mechanics, and style, there are plenty of different ways for students to mess up their writing. Since the full list of mistakes is far too long to cover in a blog article, let’s focus on the 10 most …
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Why Should Students Show Their Work?
We have all heard “show your work” from a teacher or two. We have all groaned as we erase and rewrite the math problem, wondering why it’s necessary – why should students show their work when they already got the right …
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7 Ways to Make Math Practice Fun for Kids
Let’s face it, it can be pretty difficult to try to spin math into something that doesn’t look like work to kids. Math requires lots of brain power and is often associated with school and boredom, so it can be …
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6 Tips for Teaching Kids Responsibility
Teaching kids responsibility is one of the most important tasks a parent has. Showing children how to be responsible from a young age will turn them into responsible teens and adults, who can do things on their own and realize the …
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How to Find Good Books to Read: 5 Helpful Tips
Maybe you’ve finally encouraged your child to read more, or maybe your child has always been a reader. Excellent! But now what? I have loved reading for as long as I can remember, and to this day I still struggle …
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Help Kids Learn with Service Projects
There are many ways that students learn and use their knowledge in the classroom, but learning can also be extended outside of school hours when kids participate in service projects (also called service learning projects). What is Service Learning? Service …
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