For Parents, For Teachers & Principals
As the ongoing pandemic brings into sharp focus the ways kids are learning (or not), Next City looks at self-directed education, which respects each student’s passions, encourages self-sufficiency and turns the city into a classroom. The story about the United States...
For Parents, For Teachers & Principals
The medical journal The Lancet has examined the impact of social distancing on adolescents. The summary points out that young people between the ages of 10 and 24 need to interact face-to-face with their peers to develop fully, both behaviourally and neurologically....
For Parents, For Teachers & Principals
This article is a good reminder to focus kids’ activities on play, physical exercise, the arts (music, drama, art, movement, etc.) as therapeutic outlets. Reopen schools with a ‘golden age of play’ Excerpt: When the novel coronavirus is no longer as...
For Parents, For Teachers & Principals
Sir Ken Robinson, a world-renowned education and creativity expert, fascinatingly talks about reasons to change education. We are still doing what we did in the past and this is alienating kids, according to Robinson. Robinson suggests that we need to think...
For Teachers & Principals
School health research suggests that school communities need to have a variety of opportunities that will assist the school population to reach its full potential. A shared vision with realistic goals Collaboration based on trust and shared responsibility is central...
