Carol Dweck discusses this concept in her Scientific American article “The Secret to Raising Smart Kids.” We all want our kids to be bright and reach their greatest potential and she gives some practical direction for parents and teachers.
What’s your philosophy about intelligence? Does each person have a fixed intelligence or is our intellectual capacity […]

One of the many assessments in the Frontier Learning Profile is the Swassing-Barbe Modality Index. It’s the classic tool to determine cognitive input. It answers the question of how a person takes in information, visually, auditorially or kinesthetically and is an important element of the cognitive input portion of the Profile.
Tim Scott recommends a secondary […]

Part of the challenge of teaching older kids at home is staying digitally literate. At our house we joke about Planet 8-Track (where I was born and raised) and Planet iPod, a culural illustration from Earl Creps’ book Off-Road Disciplines. My kids are from Planet iPod. I try to keep up with what happens on […]

As homeschoolers we are really ‘innovators’ and ‘early adopters.’ I am convinced that the trend in mainstream education must move toward individualized education a la homeschooling. Each child is gifted and the goal of a parent or teacher is to equip a child to make the most of his or her gifts.
This video talk […]

Change the way we teach kids; don’t just throw more money at schools. That’s what David Reaume wrote in today’s Anchorage Daily News. What a breath of fresh air from a columnist I rarely agree with. He discusses the potential impact of a recent court decision, Moore vs. State of Alaska.
A few years back […]