Education + School

Library story hours are the best. Not only do you get out of the house with your little ones, but you get to do something that's great for them in so many ways. Improving listening skills, learning new words,...

An Open Letter To Virtual School Parents… And the Educators Who Serve Them. To best support our distance learning teams' efforts, we need to recognize the difference between homeschooling and schooling at home. I am not homeschooling… and you might not...

  Reading has always been a big part of my life. My grandma worked at a library when I was growing up, and I have many fond memories of spending afternoons there in the summer, bringing home stacks of books,...

It goes without saying that the past year has been especially demanding and tumultuous for our education system. Without a doubt, through uncertainty, unprecedented difficulty, and straight up scary circumstances, the educators in our community have shown incredible commitment...

January 20, 2021 will be a historic day. Not only are we still deep in the midst of a pandemic that is keeping the usual throngs of people from attending the inauguration of a new President in person, but...

Teach Your Kids a Second Language from Home The benefits of learning and speaking a second language are plentiful. They include all sorts of fancy terms like improved executive functioning and metalinguistic awareness, better English reading skills, and cultural awareness...

An unconventional school year deserves an unconventional approach to learning in Milwaukee It's no stretch to say that 2020 has dealt us a pretty unexpected hand, especially when it comes to the educational environments for our kids. Many who started...

My mother told me the story over and over again — I was in the second grade and an exceptional reader, but suddenly I started to complain of not being able to see the board from my seat in...

My family is about a month into full-time virtual school, and honestly, it hasn’t been the train wreck I anticipated. Our school is super organized, the communication is outstanding, and our kids show their resiliency and rise to the challenge....

Discover playful learning that encourages your child to wonder through creative, hands-on workshops led in real-time by Instructors from across the globe. The Betty Brinn Children’s Museum just launched its brand-new platform for online education — Play in the Cloud...