Aug 21, 2012 | Education, Elementary, From the Heart, High School & Beyond, Homeschooling, Middle School, Moms & Dads, Preschool, Private Schools
By Karen Grossman, author of the blog Mom in the Muddle It’s August. My heart sinks when I see store shelves crammed with notebooks, pencils, lunchboxes, and various other school supplies that give my credit card a workout. My kids get lost in the excitement of...
Aug 20, 2012 | Education, Elementary, High School & Beyond, Middle School, Preschool, Private Schools
By Rachel Hoeing and Guest Blogger Amy Beveridge School days are just around the corner! Most school systems in our area will be hosting Open Houses during the next two weeks. Even most preschools will have a “meet the teacher” day. Since I taught in the school system...
Jul 19, 2012 | Children's Health & Wellness, Developmental Concerns, Education, Elementary, Health, High School & Beyond, Middle School, Preschool
By Henri Brown Of all the things parents need to know—how to potty train, how to prevent accidents, how to feed and water your children well—no one educates parents about the components of reading. Yet, according to childrenofthecode.org, ”more children are at...
Apr 23, 2012 | -, Education, Elementary, High School & Beyond, Middle School, Private Schools
By Joyce G. Henson, Interim Head of Forsyth Country Day School It’s an all-too-familiar story: when the state seeks to slash budgets, it looks invariably to our schools. Teachers are laid off, class sizes increase, and programs judged “unnecessary” are eliminated or...
Mar 16, 2012 | Education, Elementary, High School & Beyond, Middle School, Private Schools
By Jennifer Aceves, Assistant Head of Lower Division/Director of Communications at Noble Academy Do you have a bright child who is struggling in school? Is their current academic environment not the best fit for the way they learn? You may have heard that Noble...
Mar 3, 2012 | Education, Elementary, High School & Beyond, Middle School, Parenting & Family, Raising Children
By Melissa Norman, Founder & Executive Director of Girl CHARGE, Inc. Ask any female if they have ever been disappointed by a friendship, if they have ever known the confusion and hurt of having other girls turn on them, and most will respond affirmatively. Beyond...
Feb 28, 2012 | Education, Elementary, High School & Beyond, Holidays, Middle School, Parenting & Family, Preschool, Raising Children
This is a fabulous activity to demonstrate all the wonderful things that African-Americans have contributed to our society. I thought this activity was great for children of African-American descent to appreciate their own culture, while other children can find an...
Jan 12, 2012 | Education, Elementary, High School & Beyond, Middle School, Preschool
Westchester Country Day School, a college preparatory school located in High Point, has announced that it is exploring a pre-kindergarten program to add to its already outstanding K-12 curriculum. “We are excited to expand our programming to include four-year-olds,”...
Nov 23, 2011 | Children's Health & Wellness, Education, Elementary, Health, High School & Beyond, Middle School
By Jennifer Long, M.S., S.S.P. with Angela Smith, M.A., C.A.S I promise no one grows up dreaming of being a school psychologist. Well, maybe the children of school psychologists do, but I doubt it. I know I certainly didn’t. Something about a car so full of test kits...
Aug 22, 2011 | Education, Elementary, Middle School, Parenting & Family, Raising Children
By Guest Blogger, Anonymous Over the weekend, I went to my friend’s daughter’s dance competition. The talk turned to girl drama between her daughter, “Hannah,” and her best friend, “Michaela.” According to Hannah’s mom, the girls are drifting apart. Apparently,...
Aug 15, 2011 | Education, Elementary, High School & Beyond, Middle School, Preschool, Recreation, Sports
Have you longed for your child to have a more systematic and values-centered education? As a classical, Christian K-12 community school, Caldwell Academy in Greensboro offers parents in the Triad a unique, but well-established model, utilizing systematic,...
May 6, 2011 | -, Education, Elementary, High School & Beyond, Just for Moms, Middle School, Moms & Dads, Pop Culture, Books & Movies, Recreation
By Caren Grice It became abundantly clear to me, about a month into my daughter’s kindergarten year, that her first precious year of formal education had changed dramatically in the three short years since my son had started kindergarten. While my husband, myself...
Apr 21, 2011 | -, Education, Education for Special Needs, Elementary, Middle School, Private Schools
By Jennifer Aceves, Director of Communications, M.Ed Special Education, Noble Academy Homework Strategies for Students, including tips for those with with AD/HD Although spring fever has hit, we still have an entire quarter left in this school year! Once mom and dad...
Mar 25, 2011 | -, Education, Elementary, High School & Beyond, Middle School, Preschool
By Kristen Ring, Director of the Multisensory Academy of Practitioners at Forsyth Country Day School Have you ever heard anyone say, “My children are all EXACTLY the same”? Aside from it being creepy in a Brave New World kind of way, it is also simply a ludicrous...
Feb 12, 2011 | -, Education, Elementary, High School & Beyond, Middle School
Sponsored by Guilford County Schools; written by Haley Miller, Guilford Parent Academy Coordinator In February 2009, one month after Guilford County Schools Superintendent Mo Green launched his strategic plan, I received an e-mail from my boss. I had been named the...
Feb 3, 2011 | -, Education, Education for Special Needs, Elementary, High School & Beyond, Middle School
Sponsored by Triad Academy, written by Carrie W. Malloy, Director, Triad Academy A child comes home from school each day frustrated that he can’t keep up. He’s not able to participate in class and bursts into tears during homework time. He is becoming socially...
Jan 23, 2011 | -, Education, Elementary, High School & Beyond, Middle School, Private Schools
Submitted By Stacy Calfo, Director of Communications, Public Relations & Marketing at Greensboro Day School Our Children & The iGeneration “As the pace of technological change accelerates, mini-generations are defined by their distinctive patterns of...
Oct 17, 2010 | Education, Health, Middle School, Parenting & Family, Tweens & Teens
By Michelle Bostian, LCSW Lower School Counselor for Greensboro Day School Feeling uncomfortable about being separate from mom and dad, or “separation anxiety” is most commonly thought to be something that impacts preschool children and kindergarten age. It does, but...
Oct 11, 2010 | Education, Elementary, Middle School
By Rachel Hoeing If you have never heard the term EOG, you are lucky. For the rest of us, it is a term that can quickly equate to stress! EOG stands for End-of-Grade or End-of-Course Test. This test is given in all public schools in NC to 3rd – 8th, graders....
