Interviews

 The report cards that list grades as letters might be eschewed for an educational approach that emphasizes grading students on mastery and fluency. Competency-based learning typically includes number grades denoting and correlating to a child’s mastery of a particular subject. While standard grading systems favor grade percentages that correlate to a specific number grade, … Read more

 Play is fun for children, but it can also help reinforce educational concepts and facilitate learning. Through playtime and games, children immerse themselves not just in lessons but in fun, too! Harvard’s Graduate School of Education published a story titled “Playing to Learn” that detailed how play is an important part of learning and … Read more

 In kindergarten, children begin to put sounds together as they learn to read simple words and text. As a child moves through grade levels, reading begins to focus on more difficult content and abstract understanding. What parents might not know, however, is that not every child may be ready to read at the same … Read more

 Reading struggles can be obvious, but some struggling readers fly under the radar for various reasons. Reading struggles could be difficult to spot, as some children may seem to easily decode certain words; parents may assume that their child is progressing perfectly fine. In actuality, the child could have memorized certain words or may … Read more

Laurel Handfield began her writing career about two decades ago, but her passion for the written word was deeply rooted in her youngest years. Her childhood literary influences were both real and fictional–Judy Blume and the Archie characters Betty and Veronica. However, it was the Riverdale duo who pined for Archie’s heart that figured heavily … Read more