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If I told you that I know HOW to create a successful, confident and motivated child who loves to learn and not give up, would you want to know how? If I told you that I know the person who can help your child achieve this, would you want to know who? You'll find the answer simply by looking in the mirror. It's you! The parent! You are the closest source to helping your child begin to set goals towards being a successful student, and I'm going to share with you the HOW to star

Planning and organizing is constant no matter what phase we are in our lives. At this very moment, I can hear my husband on his Zoom call talking about dates for the next proposal and deciding who will take on what role in the project. In the kitchen, I see my son on his computer organizing his slides for his science research project. My daughter is on FaceTime with her classmate and it's Twin Day at school tomorrow so they are planning out what to wear. My 5-year-old is

Remember the guppies I was telling you about in my previous post? Well, they are doing great and our kids now have a greater interest in fish, so now we have added an additional fish tank to our home. Between our new fish tank and fish purchase and my husband's on-going enthusiastic conversations about fishing, I'm pretty sure that this blog post resulted from their influence. So here we go... I'm sure you have heard of the timeless proverb, “Give a man a fish and you feed hi

We have a fish tank at home and it's a community tank filled with guppies and tetras. It's a pretty happy tank and overall, all the fish get along except that whenever our mama guppy gives birth, the little fish don't survive as they get eaten by the tetras. We rarely see any of the baby guppies...we just know that they existed at some point because we'll see a very pregnant fish and then the next day, we'll see the fish deflate back to her pre-pregnancy stage but with no add

Now that report cards have officially transitioned to the new format where self-learning and reflection are the the key drivers, it is now more important than ever to have students fully understand what self-assessment and self-reflection really entails. Self-assessment, self-reflection, goal setting...these terms are thrown everywhere, but do students REALLY know what these concepts mean so that it makes an impact on them? It usually works like this. Teachers have the studen