Katie Abercrombie, Academic Coach

05/04/2023

So much learning happens outside of a classroom.

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07/16/2021

01/08/2019

Read to your kids!

01/02/2019

12/01/2018

Let's stop hurrying our children.

Instead of recognizing that schooling is the problem, we blame the kids.

08/11/2018

Not only do they not need to, many of them cannot or should not.

03/02/2018

Can we do this please??? I don't know if I could have made it through school without music.

“We were in special measures. We had low staff morale, parents not happy with the school, results were poor and nobody wanted to come here, we had budget issues. It’s a downward spiral when you’re there.” This is what Feversham headteacher, Naveed Idrees, told The Guardian. He continued: “...

01/15/2018

Yet here, music gets cut along with other "specials" so we can pull up those test scores! Hmmmm....

“We were in special measures. We had low staff morale, parents not happy with the school, results were poor and nobody wanted to come here, we had budget issues. It’s a downward spiral when you’re there.” This is what Feversham headteacher, Naveed Idrees, told The Guardian. He continued: “...

11/30/2017

Read with your kids. Have lots of experiences. Talk, talk, talk.

Comprehension depends on what you already know. Let’s start there.

10/15/2017

I'm not trying to get political on my academic page, but this article makes a case for parents making a point to teach logical fallacies at home. I have a copy of The Fallacy Detective, and I have to say that it is a good text.

From the article, quoting a college professor:

“My university has just dropped the logic requirement. Why? Because it doesn't sell. I'm sitting here at academic assembly after a rousing speech by our dean telling us we had to worry about the possibility of a decline in enrollment and so had to work ever harder to sell ourselves by offering gimmicky junk and renaming courses with sexy names, etc.”

The examples all point to a major lapse in curriculum.

07/10/2017