There is a little debate that a parent’s engagement in a child’s learning is highly beneficial. A number of studies have shown the extent of the positive impacts that healthy parental involvement can provide with marked improvements in attendance, behavioral patterns, and social skills, as well as better grades and test scores, resulting in higher graduation rates. But distinguishing the … Read More
The Link Between a Child’s Learning and a Mother’s Voice
We talk a lot about parental engagement in the development of a child’s education and how the success of progress in school can be attributed, at least in part, to having the parent actively engaged. A mother reading to her child can be an enriching and rewarding experience that has the potential for a positive impact on that child’s learning … Read More
State of Arizona Informational ELL Resources
The state of Arizona had 91,382 ELL students enrolled in grades K-12 during the 2012-13 academic year, making up 8.4% of the school population. Among those children, Spanish was spoken by a large majority at 70.5%, with Arabic, Navajo, Vietnamese, and Somali making up the balance of the top five languages currently spoken by non-English speaking students. The following is … Read More
The Benefits of Professional Development Webinars for Teachers
Webinar. A funny sounding combination of “web” and “seminar” to create a keyword often used in today’s digital online marketplace to describe a useful and convenient teaching method that is becoming more widely relied upon in a number of industries. The theory behind the webinar is to provide a personal, face-to-face approach to teaching without the need for the teacher … Read More