Category: Education
Building Bridges to Another Culture
As part of Earth Day celebrations, Portland Family wants to recognize a local effort impacting global living. Bridges to India is a program led by students from Riverdale High School that raises money to fund Hope Charities Inc., a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide health care and community support for the needy people [...]
The Montessori Approach: Promoting Mindful Learning
Young children aren’t usually known for intense concentration. To the contrary, kids are expected to bounce from one activity to another with the attention span of a gnat. That’s why parents are surprised by what they see when they tour Eton Montessori School in Bellevue, Washington: Children as young as three happily engaged in independent, [...]
Cash for Grades: Good Idea or Bad Parenting?
If you ever want to start a lively discussion among parents, ask them what they think about paying kids for good grades or for excelling at a sport. Then sit back and listen to the heated banter. Most parents seem to fall squarely into one camp or the other. Some feel that money is a [...]
Libraries Make a Difference for Working Families
A library district will keep them working for us. Families have lots of concerns these days — keeping our jobs and our health care coverage, raising children and supporting our parents as they age and need our help. Fortunately, there are things in our community that help families get through their busy lives. One of [...]
The Art of Unfolding
“All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” – Pablo Picasso At Oregon Episcopal School, children begin to unfold their artistic wings in pre-kindergarten, setting the stage for original artistic exploration throughout their school years and beyond. In a sunlit and open space, the atelier, these young [...]
Sleep, Science and Smarter Kids: How Sleep Boosts Learning
Want kids to bring home As? Start with more ZZZs. According to sleep experts and numerous new studies, lost sleep hurts learning and hinders school-day success. That’s bad news, because today’s
Translating History
In 2011, Mariah Weber, Erin Murphy and Avery Thompson brought closure to families of eight WWII-era soldiers. In the process, history became a bit more personal. When Maron Faulkner, their French teacher at St. Mary’s Academy, asked for assistance with a WWII translation project, the three graduates of the French American International School were well [...]
Help Your Child Prep for Preschool
From ages 2 to 5, kids make big leaps in all areas of development. At age 2, they begin to expand their vocabulary as they associate sounds with objects (“brown cow”). By age 5, they’ll be able to string
Oregon Zoo Releases Rare Oregon Silverspot Butterfly
Zoo releases more than 1,000 endangered butterflies into wild. Photographer’s time-lapse sheds light on rarely seen transformation PORTLAND, Ore. –– The Oregon Zoo’s butterfly conservation lab successfully released the last of this season’s 1,183 zoo-reared Oregon silverspot butterfly pupae this week. A dozen pupae (butterfly cocoons) were transported to coastal headlands to complete their transformation [...]
International Friendships: Learning for Life
The thought of his ten-year-old twins spending two weeks in China made Craig Miller only slightly anxious. The kids weren’t alone — Seth and Claire were in China with classmates and their teacher for The International School’s capstone trip. It was just that every other child had a parent accompanying them. “It wasn’t exactly that [...]
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