September is often a month that evokes back to school for students, with images of backpacks, lunches and yellow school buses. With a growing number of adults returning to school in recent years, the extra lunch is headed with a parent to a classroom instead of a...

Backpacks, lunchbags, pencil cases and notebooks are part of the traditional purchase pattern of the back-to-school ritual at the end of each summer.  Older students include new technology like smartphones, tablets and laptops to assist in academic tasks. From...

Ask any young person, parent or teacher if they have had a discussion on this topic and the chances of them saying yes is very high. That is because in every generation there is a hot button topic that fires one set of minds against another: two generations ago it was...

There are many mixed messages in the education domain about testing. Good testing, bad testing, useless testing and useful testing. What does it all mean when it comes to your child? If you’ve already had a child or children move through the education system in...

Why are teen girls more likely to volunteer? Visit any fundraising event, sporting event, social or cultural event and the number of girls volunteering far outpaces the guys. Is this because girls are more social than boys? Have different motivational reasons? Are...

Why alternatives are on the rise to a system that isn’t changing fast enough Our high school system still values “book smarts” while our society thrives on creativity and innovation. Have you heard an adolescent express how useless school is to them? Why adults keep...

Is your child bringing home the first report card from Junior Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 4, grade 7 or grade 9? Perhaps from college or university, if you are lucky enough to have an adult child share their results with you? There are several benchmark years in the...

Backpacks, lunchbags, pencil cases and notebooks are part of the traditional purchase pattern of the back-to-school ritual at the end of each summer. Older students include new technology like smartphones, tablets and laptops to assist in academic tasks. From...

Why alternatives are on the rise to a system that isn’t changing fast enough Our high school system still values “book smarts” while our society thrives on creativity and innovation. Have you heard an adolescent express how useless school is to them? Why adults keep...