Education trends come and go. However, the importance of nurturing your child's curiosity, imagination, and comfort with the unknown will never change.

"Coding is not the new literacy... There are no books that teach you how to solve a problem no one has seen before. This is why I don’t want my kids to learn syntax. I want them to learn to solve problems, to dive deep into an issue, to be creative. So how do we teach that?"  http://ow.ly/MDPw30neCyf

Dive into parenting topics, such as how to speak to your baby, with our weekday Parent and Child classes, starting today! ​

Q. What is "Parentese"?

A. "It’s not baby-talk or made-up speech. Instead, it’s the way you talk to your baby — the sounds your voice makes, the intonation, and how clearly you speak. To speak parentese you need to slow down, exaggerating vowels and upping intonation. Real vocabulary is more than acceptable: It’s necessary." http://ow.ly/oCi730neE7i

Congrats to our colleagues at the Waldorf Academy in Toronto for continuing to make strides that are inclusive and reflective of our shared human experience. ​

New Year. New approach to learning from our mistakes. 

Some teachers have stopped giving grades altogether to try to refocus class on learning instead of on grades... [Teachers need to] continually remind them that in seventh grade it's more important that they learn the math than that they get a certain grade....  http://ow.ly/VIEQ30n6ciV