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Alternative Schools: A Pathway to Flexible and Inclusive Education
What is an Alternative School? Imagine a place where education adapts to the students, not the other way around. Alternative schools are...
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Lisa Kelleher
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Why our private school embraces atypical students
Celebrating our atypical students and how we help them and their families. Our team is so proud of their amazing success this year.
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Education Consultant
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We couldn't bring your kids back from Ecuador.
We're really sorry, but a lot can happen in 12 days in South America. In fact, when you jam pack an itinerary with hiking mountains,...
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Jason Ellenbogen
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Attachment and the Classroom
Attachment theory is a psychological theory developed by John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth in the 1950s and 1960s. It proposes that infants...
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Jason Ellenbogen
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Learning on a Living Planet
By David Aubrey Berger We live on a planet, with myriad human and non-human beings. We humans are thinkers, schemers, dreamers, a mix of...
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Jason Ellenbogen
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Peace over Progress
By David Aubrey Berger The job of the teacher is to teach; the job of the student is to learn. In order for a student to learn anything,...
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Jason Ellenbogen
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Should we learn all day?
By Efrat Shapir A student this summer asked me about the purpose of being at school all day. “Can’t you just teach me all that I need to...
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Jason Ellenbogen
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When just getting to school is an emotional challenge, our teachers step up.
Being a teenager is hard work. For every kid that makes it to school on time without a hitch every morning - there are kids that struggle.
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Education Consultant
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Why Is History So Boring?
By Efrat Shapir Obviously, history is not boring. Even Canadian history. So why is it that students find this subject in particular so...
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Jason Ellenbogen
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Screen Addiction: Are We Winning the Battle?
Parents are concerned that their children are spending too much time in front of screens. With teens using screens for an estimated...
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