Evaluating Your Child’s Academic Progress: 3 Core Questions to Ask

As a parent, it’s only natural to be invested in your child’s academic success. Keeping a close eye on their progress is crucial for understanding their strengths and areas that may need improvement. While report cards and parent-teacher conferences provide valuable insights, it’s essential to dig deeper into your child’s learning experience. Asking the right …

Executive Function: Boost Your Student’s Skill Set

If you’re not family with the term, “executive function,” you’re not alone. Sometimes referred to as “the management system” of the brain, this skill set includes working memory, cognitive flexibility and inhibitory control (self-control). Working together, these skills help us do things like pay attention, plan, organize, prioritize and see goals through to completion.  Although …

Is My Child’s Learning Struggle because of the Subject, the Curriculum, the Teacher, or the Brain?

When a child has a learning struggle, it can be daunting to figure out what you can do to help them overcome it. Learning challenges have far-reaching impacts beyond just grades: learning struggles also affect confidence, self-esteem, motivation, and many other areas of life.  So what can you do? The first step is to dig …

Differentiating and Improving Study Skills

You may have heard that there are two parts to smart: knowledge and cognitive skills. The latter, which includes foundational brain skills such as visual and auditory processing, memory, logic & reasoning, attention, and processing speed, are essential for strong study skills.  Regardless of your student’s age, study skills create more confident and independent learners. …

5 Fun Cognitive Exercises for Kids That You Can Do at Home

Parents understand the importance of physical exercise for their children’s health, but what about mental fitness? Cognitive exercises play a crucial role in helping kids and teens develop essential thinking, learning, memory, attention, and reasoning skills. These underlying brain functions, collectively known as cognitive skills, are vital for success in school, work, and everyday life. …

The 411 on Unschooling

Don’t let the term “unschooling” fool you. The educational style might be less traditional than other forms of curriculum-based study, but the approach is still focused on learning. The primary philosophy of unschooling is to let the learning be guided by the child’s innate curiosity, interests, and abilities rather than by a set curriculum. Although …