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Multisensory Experience (Part Six of “How They Learn”)

March 15, 2018

A few weeks ago we hosted a webinar that focused on how the latest research can improve your homeschool. You can watch the entire webinar here.

by Debra Bell, The Science of Learning

Positive Emotions Enhance Memory (Part Seven of “How They Learn”)

March 22, 2018

A few weeks ago we hosted a webinar that focused on how the latest research can improve your homeschool. You can watch the entire webinar here.

The Science of Learning

The Science of Learning: How Brain Research Can Power Your Home School

February 17, 2017

Making time to think about the big picture in homeschooling is hard. Math lessons must be completed by lunch. A co-op class must be planned for tomorrow. But if we don’t take time to think about how we ask our kids to learn new information and why we use the teaching methods we do, we Read More...

Aim Academy Online, The Science of Learning

GRIT: What Is It? Why Does It Matter?

March 7, 2019

GRIT is persevere in the face of failure; getting back up when we fall; starting over when we fail. It is a way of redefining success not simply by your talent or your intelligence, but by changing the way you think about failure and perseverance. Although not a skill that all of us are born Read More...

Aim Academy Online, High School, Meet the Teachers, The Science of Learning

Help Your Child Develop Grit

May 11, 2018

If Grit was simply will power or self-control eventually most of us would be exhausted and there would be few of us who would be able to keep up with the work. Although these characteristics are important, for the persistence needed to be gritty we need to develop a different strategy. The strategy of consistently Read More...

High School, Meet the Teachers, The Science of Learning

The Power of Parental Influence in Uncertain Times

August 1, 2017

The Power of Parental Influence in Uncertain Times This is the second in several installments about navigating through the teenage years. In this post I would like to spend some time describing the culture our teenagers find themselves facing; and discuss how parents can both grieve the loss of our compliant naïve children and begin Read More...