learning

A few days ago I read a story about a woman who went to Auschwitz as a girl with her little brother. On the way there her brother lost his shoe. She chewed him out and called him a "stupid boy!" Soon after that moment, they were separated and she never saw him again. Last […]

I just read an excellent article about the difference between a high achieving student, a gifted student and a creative student.  Our schools tend to treat high achievers and gifted students the same and they are not.  Although a student may be both a high achiever and gifted.  For example: the teacher announces an assignment,

From NPR’s Student’s View of Intelligence Can Help Grades: The students in the latter group "learned that the brain actually forms new connections every time you learn something new, and that over time, this makes you smarter." … By the end of the semester, the group of kids who had been taught that the brain

Remember the spinning girl?  If she spun one way, you were left-brained, if she spun the other way, she was right-brained.  I thought it was a trick because she kept changing directions.  A friend came over and actually watched it with me and he swore it kept going the same way all the time even

Last week I decided to learn calligraphy.  Why? It looks cool. I like doing things with my hands. I like paper and notebooks. I wanted to revisit what it’s like to learn how to write as our seven year old is working on his writing. I love learning new things even if I don’t take