Parents and teachers are a team
Sheree has been an educator for more than 30 years. She shares insights on how when parents and teachers partner up and work together, kids benefit.
Sheree has been an educator for more than 30 years. She shares insights on how when parents and teachers partner up and work together, kids benefit.
Family connections are important to Pilar. She lives near grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins, so her boys benefit from lots of intergenerational relationships. Pilar and her husband have taken his son, Dylan, to New York to trace their roots at Ellis Island. She has also taken them to South America to meet previously unknown family members.
Kelly talks about how important it is to allow our kids to fail.
Aidan O’Dowd-Ryan, designed the curriculum for the UNBOXED project, The Science of Bread, as a cool opportunity to bring some hands-on science into kids’ lives while they’re out of the classroom.
Wilita arrived in the U.S. from the Congo as a refugee when he was ten years old. He shares his experience as Dad to mixed race kids in the U.S.
When students aren’t in the classroom, how do teachers create a sense of belonging at school?
Would you like to instill a lifelong love of learning in your kids? Read how Susan overcame her inner demons to help her son explore his interests.
Isabel and her family immigrated to Boston from Mexico. She recently completed her Master’s and talks about how she felt like she didn’t “belong”.
Sloan’s mom is Vietnamese. Her dad is African-American. Mom, Lan talks to us about being intentional in family conversations about cultural and ethnic identity.
1 in 4 U.S. residents speaks a language other than English at home; 33% of all children living in the U.S. live in multi-lingual households. Carrie and Chris speak Mandarin, French, German, and Italian. Their son, Daniel, uses English, French and Mandarin.