This is a sponsored post When I taught first grade, my main objective was to teach kids to read. I started each year with beginning readers who transformed into fluent readers during the course of the year. But teaching kids to read wasn’t easy. It was often hard to tell if a stumbling block was…
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Remake Learning Days Bring Free STEM Programming to Communities Across the US
This post is brought to you by Remake Learning Days and The Motherhood Whenever I give presentations to PTAs and other parent groups about today’s digital parenting challenges, I remind them their child’s experiences with technology are preparing them to thrive in a world of constant change. I’m living proof that the job I have…
Why We Love the Tútit App for On-Demand Homework Help
This post is sponsored by tútit I admit that the AP Physics and magnet pre-calculus classes Emily is currently taking as a high school freshman are well outside my comfort zone. Even though her teachers are always available to answer questions at lunch and she has a group chat with friends in her engineering magnet program,…
Introducing tútit On-Demand Pay as You Go Virtual Tutoring App
This post is sponsored by tútit How many of these scenarios sound familiar? It’s 9pm and your middle schooler just announced that he has an algebra quiz tomorrow and he just doesn’t get it. He’s frustrated, you’re frustrated, it’s getting late, you’ve still got laundry and some work to finish, and you don’t know how to…
5 Resources for Teaching Financial Literacy to Tweens and Teens
This post is sponsored by T. Rowe Price. “I just don’t understand why my friends want to spend real money on things for Fortnite®”, my 12-year-old son pondered one night after the latest Battle Pass came out. Thomas likes playing Fortnite with his friends, watching YouTube® videos featuring game play, and stays up to date…
Regeneron Science Talent Search Rewards Promising Young Scientists
This post is sponsored by Regeneron Clipboard pressed to my body, I made myself as small as possible as I squeezed my way past fellow parents and students in the already narrow space between poster boards during our middle school’s annual STEM Night. As a parent judge, my goal was to locate and talk to…
4-H STEM Lab Makes it Easy for Non-Engineers to Teach Engineering Concepts to All Ages
This post is sponsored by National 4-H Council “Wow, a high school magnet program in engineering?” marvel fellow parents upon hearing my daughter has started her freshman year in high school. “Has she always liked STEM? What inspired her to apply to an engineering program? What kind of engineer does she want to be?” Since…
How to Get Travel Scholarships to Explore the World for Less
I’ll never forget the day my newly minted middle schooler announced she and a friend hatched a plan during lunch in the school cafeteria to travel the world together. “When we’re in college, we’re going meet and travel together,” Emily confidently told me as she rattled off a list of countries that were on their…
3 Ways to Ensure Mid-Year School Success for All Ages
The start of a new year for many kids means coming back from winter break and being confronted with the end of the second quarter. Rather than starting the new year with a fresh clean slate, your child is being hit with homework assignments, project deadlines, and end of the quarter quizzes and tests. With…
Dear Future Coders: 4 Pieces of Advice for Tween & Teen Technologists
Thank you to Capital One for sponsoring this post As a former classroom teacher, I can distinguish between social chatter and productive chatter. Social chatter was typical in my first-grade classroom as kids were transitioning between parts of the day or weren’t engaged in classroom tasks and had the power to create a ripple effect of off-task…
