by Sarah Green | Jun 7, 2017 | Student Issues
College is a very different experience from high school. First of all, the courses are much more difficult. Second, your parent or guardian isn’t there to remind you to do your homework. You’ll probably also have to balance academics, work, and social life. Here...
by Sarah Green | Jan 4, 2017 | Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
We all know that kids like to play video games. Whether it’s Pokémon Go or games played on social networks or through phone apps, we’ve raised a generation of game-loving children. While some may think this will lead to the end of society as we know it, research has...
by Sarah Green | Nov 18, 2016 | Student Issues
School discipline can have a long-term effect on children’s lives, especially kids growing up in poor urban areas. Traditionally, the default response to kids getting in trouble is either detention or suspension. The former is mostly boring, and the latter disrupts...
by Sarah Green | Nov 7, 2016 | Student Issues
We tend to think of our minds “wandering” as getting away from the task at hand and being a distraction from important work. But according to new research from the University of British Columbia, this is an essential part of how our brains work. According to the...
by Sarah Green | Oct 26, 2016 | Teacher Issues
It’s hard being an introverted teacher. Every single work day is filled with hundreds of children of various ages and needs. You have to balance teaching your class with individual attention to students, and it always seems like you’re doing a dozen things at once....
