There are many Benefits of Storytelling To borrow the words of American literary scholar Jonathan Gottschall: man is the storytelling animal, and he always has been. Over the course of our history, the stories that have been told and the means of telling them have changed as much as we have. Today, in our world of 2015, stories and the art of storytelling have become more important than ever in ...

Many American adults find their daily lives shaped by some degree of stress, and an ever-constant feeling that there just aren’t enough hours in the day. In the world of 2015, the same thing can easily be said for thousands, if not millions, of American children and teens. Beat Stress This School Year Now more than ever before, young children and teens can find themselves weighed down by the expectations ...

If you ask an adult about the education they received as a child, most will tell you that part of their education included learning a second language. For many of us, our formal introduction to that second language came during the secondary school years – long after the window of opportunity for easy language learning had closed. As a result, many of us who have moved beyond high school and ...

Entering kindergarten is a huge milestone for every child. Whereas pre-school programs serve as a child's first formalized introduction to socialization and learning, the skills learned in kindergarten become the foundation of an academic journey that, for many, continues well beyond the high school years. For some students making this transition, the "one size fits all" mentality of most kindergarten programs isn't necessarily the best fit. For those children, Transitional ...

For many children and parents, any mention of "school houses" conjures up Harry Potter-like images of distant boarding schools and decades (if not centuries) of competition and tradition. Fortunately for children and parents everywhere, a child no longer needs to attend one of those distant boarding schools in order to experience the benefits and culture of a school house system. In recent years, more and more day schools have come ...