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Helping Kids Get Organized

We have a guest post on our blog today from Roxanne Turner.  Roxanne is a Board Certified Life Coach with extensive training in ADHD and executive functioning, focusing on the process of getting things done. Today she writes about Organization: Helping kids learn how to organize. Organization! By; Roxanne Turner When I was little, my…

THREE IMPORTANT MOTIVATION IDEAS TO KEEP MOMENTUM DURING SUMMER

Teaching is the art of making students believe in themselves. Motivating students to believe is often at the heart of a student’s success. Show me a student who believes in themselves, and I will show you a student who is in charge of their learning. Ultimately, when a student believes in themselves and finds success,…

Improved Open-Ended Communication Inspires Learning Communities

John Hunter is a fourth grade teacher, and he’s one of the best around. Watching his Ted Talk, I was in awe at how he expertly communicates with children. He truly believes that informed parents, engaged communities and better schools arise from high quality communication. If you haven’t watched it yet, it’s well worth your…

Positive Messages Lead To Positive Results When Advertising to Parents

Sponsors, are you ready for an alarming statistic? According to a recent report conducted by Common Sense Media, kids aged 2-11 are exposed to over 25,000 ads per year. That’s almost 2,100 ads per month. Put another way, that’s an incredible 15 ads per hour. So yes, we truly live in advertising age. While it’s…

Data Shows that Funding Drives Achievement

I’ll never forget my first job teaching in the South Side of Chicago. It was gratifying to be making a difference in a community that needed difference makers. There were some limitations, but in teaching you can’t ask for better professional development than to make due with what you’ve got. We used old textbooks, and…

TSCA lets you grab a slice of a huge pie

Recently, I overheard a conversation by a group of parents enjoying the day in one of our local dog parks. They were talking about trying to find a fidget spinner at a nearby store. Fidget spinners, if you haven’t heard, have been all the rage this year in classes across the world. As I listened to…

4 Ways Screen Time Can Be Engagement Time

Now that most schools are off for the summer, the countdown has officially begun until the start of the school year – two months, or about 87,600 minutes, and counting. For kids used to an eight hour school day, that’s 480 extra minutes each day to keep themselves occupied, not including homework, or any other clubs that they do after…

Why Communication is The Key To Engaged Communities

Communication. Communication. Communication. For an education professional, it might be the most important part of the job. A thoughtful article addresses the enormous influence of positive communication, from a teacher’s perspective. From calling, emailing, to crafting an easy-to-read newsletter, there is no doubt that a well informed community produces positive results for all involved. Just for a…

3 Summer Engagement Ideas For K-12 Students

Let’s face it. Students love summer. No school to wake up early to. Long days by the pool or on the baseball field, sleepovers, and, of course, time for movies, video games and Snapchat. With this in mind, here are a few ideas for keeping kids engaged and fresh for the fall, with insights from…

The Importance of Parenting

In a recent article in the publication ExchangeEveryDay, which writes about early childhood concepts and ideas, they wrote about the importance of parenting. Below is a reprint of that article. We at the School Communications Agency thought you’d like it so we are re-posting it here: “Having had a difficult relationship with one’s parents is…