Curriculum

Owning the Act of Knowing

I heard this quote at a business training seminar years ago… No one waxes a rented car The speaker was making a point about the difference between employee mentality and business owner mentality; that, generally speaking, people care more for something, in this case a business, when they are the ones who own it. What […]

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Revisiting Math

Euclid in the School of Athens, Raphael Sanzio Some call it an ‘aha’ moment. I can’t think of it as anything other than Divine Providence. In any case, it happened today after finding this gem of a Parent’s Review Article entitled “Home Arithmetic” by Ms. May Everest Boole, written for our discovery no less than

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Reflections on AmblesideOnline YR2 – An Intelligent, Sequential, Integrated Curriculum

On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt, 1868, Claude Monet I first heard of an ‘sequential, integrated curriculum’ earlier this year when I read an article titled, Is Sequencing and Ordering the Curriculum Important for Scaffolding Learning? by Dr. Carol Smith in a back issue of the Winter 2007 Parents Review. The article is long

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