In January 2012 till August 2012 Philadelphia engaged in a widespread reform of its educational system. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS Dr. Leroy D. Nunery II was a major driver for that project. Leroy is a former Acting Superintendent and CEO and Deputy Superintendant/Deputy CEO of the Philadelphia School District, so he had inside real-life experience of what had to be addressed . . . and he was able to earlier do so as an outside consultant. Today, Leroy is the Founder...
Oct 29, 2012•29 min
Today’s Learning Curve with Roger & Virginia explores the many aspects of the ways in which children can be gifted and how you can benefit your child by knowing this: and what to do about it. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS Our expert guest and friend today is Francie Alexander, the Vice President and Chief Academic Officer for Scholastic Education . This is a return appearance for Francie; her last show with us addressed how to prevent your child from losing recently...
Sep 24, 2012•30 min
Wonderful results have been achieved by implementing the simple idea that if teachers visited parents in their homes, both could work together more productively to benefit the child student. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS Carie Rose is the Director of The Parent-Teacher Home Visit Project This simple, wonderful idea is now a nationwide activity achieving great results. Since 1998, the Parent/Teacher Home Visit Project non-profitmembers have created stronger home/school p...
Sep 03, 2012•22 min
That’s what Virginia and I were left wondering after this interview with Dr. William Schmidt, the author of the exciting new book: INEQUALITY FOR ALL: The Challenge of Unequal Opportunity in American Schools. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS No, it’s not about rich versus poor or disadvantaged versus privilege. It’s a revelation of the fact that our schools, even within the same districts, cities and States do not have comparable curriculum content and standards on the sam...
Aug 05, 2012•32 min
Nowhere is the adage: “If you don’t use it, you lose it” more accurate than in the case of young minds and the reason behind the “summer slide.” Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS In today’s Learning Curve Francie Alexander explains how you can protect your child’s learning and advancement. Learn how you can easily prevent the “summer slide.” Francie Alexander is Vice President and Chief Academic Officer for Scholastic Education. Francie has taught at all levels, was a distr...
Jun 11, 2012•29 min
Today’s guest is Jen Lilienstein, the founder of kidzmet.com . Jen did her undergraduate senior thesis in 1994 on Howard Gardner’s theory of Multiple Intelligence and its effect on self-esteem, attendance rates and love of learning. Post graduation, she kept returning to her passion for non-traditional education. She currently serves on the Editorial Board of the National Afterschool Association, the Publications and Platform Committees of the NAA, the Quality Committee of the CA Afterschool Net...
Mar 26, 2012•31 min
Mathematics is the bane of too many students; and it need not be. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS Mathematics is too often a difficult subject for parents asked to help with homework: it should not be. Today you will learn how to conquer that fear. Today’s guest with Roger& Virginia is Marilyn Burns, the founder of Math Solutions , an organization that has been dedicated for almost 30 years to improving K–8 mathematics teaching through providing professional developme...
Mar 19, 2012•29 min
Lisa Niver Rajna is an honest-to-goodness science teacher working in the trenches at K-6. Lisa’s success is evident in the following: Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS One of her students WON an international award with OXFAM Canada in its contest on making toys out of recycled materials. Her team was the FIRST USA team in the contest in 20 years Further she has been invited to be Geographic Awareness Editor on the site: Wandering Educators.com ; and most recently has been ...
Mar 12, 2012•32 min
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Mar 05, 2012•37 min
Jennifer is lucky to be able to benefit from A Cyber Charter School with on-line curriculum along with on-line teacher back-up and testing. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS The benefit of all this to Jennifer’s two children is that, while they have to meet the state testing standards, she can allow the kids to progress through each item on the curriculum at the pace that best suits the child and also ensure mastery on all subject matter. Hear how Jennifer practices Student...
Feb 27, 2012•30 min
The big question parents should be asking is: when it works, why is it working; and if it doesn’t work, why not? Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS Our guest today with Roger and Virginia on The Learning Curve is Laurie Gray, the founder of Socratic Parenting. Laurie’s experience includes having been a high school teacher, a civil and criminal trial attorney and author of young adult literature. Currently she writes, speaks and consults through Socratic Parenting LLC as well...
Feb 20, 2012•30 min
Today’s guests are Beth Black and Denise Savage of Cherokee Creek Boys School. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS Beth is the founder and Chairman of the Board of Cherokee Creek Boys School, which is a therapeutic boarding school for middle school boys, ages 11-15, in Westminster, SC. The school is dedicated to “challenging boys and their families to discover what is real and true about themselves and the world around them.” The program seeks to build character by offering a...
Feb 13, 2012•31 min
Did you know many families go to camp as a family rather then sending the kids off alone? Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS Today’s guest is Peg L. Smith, the Chief Executive Officer of the American Camp Association, where she has been for over a decade. She has had a wonderful career and extensive experience in childhood, adolescent and young adult work. With her BS in early childhood and family studies, she began her career in 1974 as a Head Start Teacher. Later, in 1977 ...
Feb 06, 2012•31 min
Today’s educational system is a labyrinth of bureaucratic pitfalls. Even going outside the school system for private tutoring services has its short-comings. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS Today’s guest is Elaine Sigal who has had near 40 years of experience in education at all levels from grades 8-12 and teaching at university. At one point in her career in education she founded and ran a classroom based ‘brick and mortar’ educational company (from 1995 – 2009) Based on...
Jan 30, 2012•32 min
This works for children and adults! Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS Just as exercise promotes physical fitness, exercising our brain improves brain fitness in four critical areas. Memory Attention Processing Sequencing Today’s guest is Dr. Martha S. Burns who has been a practicing speech language pathologist for 45 years. Dr. Burns is on the Faculty of Northwestern University, Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders and who also works with Scientific Learning...
Jan 23, 2012•30 min
Today’s guest is Anne Maxwell, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and founder of The Child and Family Therapy Play Center. She also founded the childfamilyplaytherapy.com website . Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS Anne has had extensive experienced dealing with “troubled,” “disabled” or “disadvantaged” children in her clinical career — but something was discovered by her: many of these disturbed or troubled children were, in actuality, highly gifted children who’d been mis...
Jan 16, 2012•30 min
Today’s guest is Anne Maxwell, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and founder of The Child and Family Therapy Play Center. She also founded the childfamilyplaytherapy.com website. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS Anne has had extensive experienced dealing with “troubled,” “disabled” or “disadvantaged” children in her clinical career — but something was discovered by her: many of these disturbed or troubled children were, in actuality, highly gifted children who’d been misd...
Jan 09, 2012•28 min
Today, with Roger & Virginia on The Learning Curve, we have the return of Jeffrey Pflaum, the author of Motivating Teen and Preteen Readers: How Teachers and Parents and Teachers Can Lead the Way. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS Jeffrey is a 34 year veteran of teaching in the New York City School System where he achieved spectacular results in the classroom. He and his work have been widely cited in publications dealing with education and is featured on the Education ...
Dec 26, 2011•24 min
Today’s guest with Roger & Virginia on The Learning Curve is Jeffrey Pflaum, the author of Motivating Teen and Preteen Readers: How Teachers and Parents and Teachers Can Lead the Way. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS Jeffrey is a 34 year veteran of teaching in the New York City School System where he achieved spectacular results in the classroom. He and his work have been widely cited in publications dealing with education and is featured on the Education Resource Info...
Dec 19, 2011•27 min
Today’s guest with Roger & Virginia on The Learning Curve is Murray Bass, the founder and president of Tools of Learning for Children . This is part 2 of our interview with Murray. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS Murray is an 83 year-old retiree who has some children enjoying reading books as early as 3 years-old! His “wards” are routinely doing it at age 4! What a remarkable story this is. The Mission Statement of Murray’s registered Section 501c(3) non-profit, Tools...
Dec 12, 2011•23 min
Today’s guest with Roger & Virginia on The Learning Curve is Murray Bass, the founder and president of Tools of Learning for Children. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS Murray is an 83 year-old retiree who has some children enjoying reading books as early as 3 years-old! His “wards” are routinely doing it at age 4! What a remarkable story this is. The Mission Statement of Murray’s Tools of Learning for Children organization is: “The Founders of this Nation envisioned a ...
Dec 05, 2011
Into whose hands goes the decision of what will be learned and by when? Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS Currently, the system’s standards make the system more important than the children it is supposed to serve, hence: A Declaration of Educational Independence. Parental choice in education is needed rather than the new laws being foisted upon us. We need to change the core common standards that perpetuate the current system along with its belief that all children can be c...
Nov 29, 2011•28 min
Parents have a critical part to play in getting their kids ready for college. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS This week we have the return of Dr. Robert Neuman, the retired Dean of Academic Development at Marquette University and author of Are You Really Ready for College? Dr Neuman reveals there are too many conversations about what the schools are not doing, but not enough conversations about what parents are not doing! What you and your child can do to prepare for coll...
Nov 21, 2011•25 min
This week’s Learning Curve with Roger & Virginia is about preparing for college and doing well when there. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS Our guest is Dr. Robert Neuman, the retired Dean of Marquette University and author of: Are You Really Ready for College ? ( http://www.areyoureallyreadyforcollege.com /) Hear Dr. Neuman reveal the fact that good grades in High School do not guarantee good grades in college? No! — College takes personal skills as well as smarts. St...
Nov 14, 2011•28 min
Today on The Learning Curve with Roger and Virginia we have the return of Linda Dobson, author of The First Year of Homeschooling Your Child, and eight other books on helping your child’s education. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS Linda has a treasure trove of information on her website: http://www.parentatthehelm.com Linda has been a columnist with Home Education Magazine “forever,” and was the first “Early Years” advisor for http://homeschool.com . She also participated...
Nov 07, 2011•27 min
Dr. Frank Barnhill, M.D., author of Mistaken for ADHD , returns to tell us what can be done to protect your child from this catastrophe. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS Dr. Barnhill, affectionately known as “Dr. Huggy-Bear,” gives us answers to the following points: What is the key to good discipline? How to handle a child who fidgets. The consequences of wrong diagnosis and unneeded medication. Did you know pesticides disrupt childhood behavior? What are the most common ...
Oct 31, 2011•37 min
Today’s guest on The Learning Curve with Roger and Virginia is Linda Dobson, author of The First Year of Homeschooling Your Child , and eight other books on helping your child’s education. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS Linda has a treasure trove of information on her website: http://www.parentatthehelm.com Linda has been a columnist with Home Education Magazine “forever,” and was the first “Early Years” advisor for http://homeschool.com . She also participated with Barn...
Oct 24, 2011•28 min
2007 US government stats state 5.4 million children have been given a ADHD diagnosis. The most recent figures are much higher. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS This week’s guest, Dr. Frank Barnhill, M.D., author of Mistaken for ADHD , reveals the incidence of wrong diagnosis is something in the order of 20%-40%! Kids in the conventional educational system are at real risk of being misdiagnosed, mistreated and mishandled. This is a program that should outrage many parents. ...
Oct 10, 2011•33 min
What’s the importance of an at-home kindergarten readiness program? . . . Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS Because children who are ready for school do better in all the other grades and have more chance of finishing school. Because many children who enter school unprepared or behind their classmates stay behind. But mostly because being ready for school starts long before getting there: it starts at home—this and parent involvement are shown to be critical factors in the ...
Oct 03, 2011•33 min
You’ll be surprised how easy it is to tutor your own child and thereby ensure their academic success. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Android RSS Today’s guest, Marina Ruben, is the author of How to Tutor Your Own Child : Boost Grades and Inspire a Lifelong Love of Learning—Without Paying a Professional Tutor . Hear Marina describe the fun to be had by both parent and child in this activity, the easy successes to be had with it and the simplicity of the techniques that can be used. M...
Sep 26, 2011•29 min
