I frequently whisper in my son’s ear, ‘you are my favorite, don’t tell your brothers’. The truth is: my guys know that I play favorites. I haven’t fooled them at all. I have my favorite son to take to the bookstore, my favorite son to play me the violin (his brother’s never got past […]
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With all of the programs available to us in school, community, church, and work, why would we encourage our children to study independently? After all, isn’t it easier to learn a new concept or skill in a group? These are the types of questions that I wrestle with constantly, and this is how I answer:
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We talk a lot about mentoring at Scio. That’s because we truly believe that the best education is found through self-motivated guidance and mentoring. A student who desires to learn will learn better and faster with a guide to lead her. How do you give your middle and high school students a mentor to follow?
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What does the multiplicative identity have to do with conversions anyway? When I learned the power of the multiplicative identity, the entire world of algebra broke open for me. Algebra is simply all about manipulating numbers within a framework of laws. Simply put, it’s problem solving in God’s world. If Algebra was this world,
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Some of my family’s favorite books are ‘Farmer Boy’ and ‘Little Britches’. In both of these books the main character is a boy living on a farm or ranch. Something that always strikes me in these books is the school schedule for these boys. Like most rural boys before the 1930s, these boys attend school
