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How to balance when everyone is working from home…even the kids!
Working from home can be a difficult transition. You are trying to balance your own work, your children's work, household chores, and organization. We collected tips from online, our clients, and our mentors on how to balance and stay sane during this time. Tips from...
SA Charter Moms & Homeschool During Corona Virus
Beyond Education founder, Lara Kilgore, interviews San Antonio Charter Moms Blog founder, Inga Cotton, about how San Antonio schools responded to coronavirus and transitioned to distance learning. https://youtu.be/TVmfoy_pJfg SA Charter Moms is a non-profit that helps...
SAT, ACT, and AP Test Status
*This article is taken straight from the ACT, SAT, and AP Exam Website Blog* If you haven't heard, the College Board (the organization that gives the SAT) and ACT canceled testing dates in February, March, April, and May. For the AP Exam, all...
Become a Zoomie: Tips & Tricks
We are now in the place where most of our classes are back in the swing of things. Zoom has been the go-to source of communication between teachers and students. We thought it would be helpful to gather just a few tips and features that exist in Zoom so you can easily...
The Free Education Subscriptions Worth Checking Out
We are on the hunt for companies that are giving away free access or free subscriptions to their services while kids are out for school. We wanted to collect them here in one place. Check them out below. Design Theme Parks and work on Engineering Skills Educational...
Success in an Online Learning Environment
**Thank you to Lauren Francis, a college educator and veteran online course facilitator, for this article's content. The copy is taken from her PDF Success in an Online Learning Environment** Online classes can require more maturity, self-motivation and time...
Adapting to Homeschool & Distance Learning
With schools transitioning to Distance Learning in response to COVID-19, many families are finding out what it looks like to homeschool their kids for the first time. To help make that transition as smooth as possible and maintain sanity and peace in the household,...
Online Learning Platforms to use while the Kids are Home!
Hey Parents out there navigating the wild world of distance learning (otherwise known as homeschool)! We know this distance learning for your younger children might be a little intimidating, scary, and unknown...and also, exhausting. So we have decided to start...
‘Tis the Season…for Exams
May is one week away, which means it is time for the the chaotic sprint to the finish line of the school year so long as we can all get through FINAL EXAMS. I am stressed as much as the kids because I know for May I go into "Finals Mode" where my schedule is no longer...
Afraid to Talk to My Teacher
Your teacher finally returns your math test, but your grade is much lower than you expected it to be. It turns out that for all of the problems, you did 90% of them correctly but made a simple mathematical mistake somewhere that threw off the final answer. You...