At The Old Schoolhouse Magazine, we are increasingly aware that we serve a growing population struggling with learning issues. Often, we are hard pressed to find the answers we need to help our children. Fortunately, consultants are available to help us get a handle on the nature of our challenges and plan a program to

How to Teach Your Platypus

“My boy’s a platypus!” she gushed enthusiastically. “He’s a what?” I was certain I must have misunderstood her. “He’s a right brained, quasi-lateral, confrontational platypus!” “Oh,” was all I could muster. I was really hoping my cynicism wasn’t showing. “Well that is great.” My friend had recently purchased the latest learning styles program and clearly,
“[Sherry] knew that special ed. was not rocket science and that with information she could do as good a job as a teacher . . . As homeschoolers, never has there been an opportunity like this to influence the culture of death with the message of life.”-Tom Bushnell, NATHHAN When our daughter was first diagnosed

What Is a Unit Study?

By Sharon Gibson   I first heard the term “unit study” several years ago, but hadn’t seen one until the day a client gave me a study to edit. Within minutes, my pre-conceived notions of complexity and time-consumption were banished. I realized unit studies were an incredibly flexible and interesting educational tool. Sometimes known as

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