Has Curiosity been removed from the learning environment? Now that so many schools and districts are only focused on academic performance and test scores, where are children able to be curious about learning? Children need to be curious, investigative, inquiring, and discover how things work and figure things out. Curiosity and a desire to learn…
Chronic Absence is a huge problem for this country. The Department of Education put together a report originally on June 7, 2016, and was revised on October 27, 2016. The title of the report was Chronic Absenteeism in the Nation’s Schools: A Hidden Educational Crisis. The report stated over 7 million students missed 15 or…
Homeschooling is on the rise. There are two major reasons why homeschooling is on the rise. Children experience this in schools and it doesn’t matter if they are in public, charter, or private schools. The two main reasons come from many families this author has spoken with and read articles. The reason is children are…
Most people think building relationships is only with people. However, if students build relationships with academic content, they will succeed in all they do. Building relations with content is to find what is interesting to the child. The child needs to be an active advocate for what he/she likes with the content. The…
Students and adults either like math or hate math. There is usually no gray area. In the article Why So Many Students Hate Math ( And How To Fix it) published on March 28, 2019, on the website Oxford Learning https://www.oxfordlearning.com/why-kids-hate-math-how-to-help/ The article states 4 reasons why students hate math. The reasons are that the…
Recently published a meta-analysis of 52 studies from English-speaking countries on what is most important for teaching reading comprehension. The study was published on May 20, 2023, titled The Active Ingredient in Reading Comprehension Strategy Intervention for Struggling Readers: A Bayesian Network Meta-analysis. The study stated that there is no single strategy that works the…
Leadership styles and Parenting Styles are very similar. Think about parenting skills as leadership skills, it will help parent your children. If you think about how you are guiding your child to be a productive and responsible adult. As a leader, you guide your employees to be productive and responsible. Looking at parenting styles…
Mathematics for most people is a love or hate subject more than other subjects. Education Week sent out a special report this week titled “Miscalculating Math.” It has resources for teaching math and ideas for math. In U.S. News and World Report’s article U.S. Teens’ Reading and Math Scores Feature Largest Declines Ever by Lauren…
Recently, there have been multiple articles about principals and teachers leaving their positions. Other articles discuss the shortage of teachers at the beginning of the school year. Further articles state that teachers are quitting in masses. Additionally, articles state that students’ misbehaviors are increasing. After many decades of denouncing educators, we are in a place…
What is acting out behavior? Acting out behavior is a reaction to something. The American Psychological Association defines acting out as an extreme behavioral expression of emotions that relieves tension or communicates these emotions in a disguised or indirect way. Acting out is often disruptive, especially in a classroom or at home. Acting out behavior…
