“If at first you don’t succeed, try try again.” How many times have we heard this saying or have said this to our children? When we are learning a new skill, whether baking, a sport, crafting, or math homework, practice does...

Thirty years ago, President Bill Clinton declared, “Classical music is a celebration of artistic excellence… Whether in new American works or in the masterpieces of the great composers of old, music is a unifying force in our...

There is an intrinsic curiosity we are born with. It is what gets us identifying where a sound is coming from, what happens when I push this button or press this lever, or what type of reaction happens when this is added?...

Gaps, holes, chasms — call them what you will, but they are a real fear for some parents and something they will avoid if possible. Gaps typically happen when you make a big change. It can be from one math program to another, or...

Reading has to be taught. We don’t intuitively know how to interpret those letters on the page. We call that skill decoding: the groups of letters make sounds which are put together to make different words. But how we teach a...

A fond memory I have is listening to Grandma quote poems around the fireplace. As a child, I firmly believed she knew everyone and everything. She was always learning and memorizing, and she loved when we would recite to her our...

There is no greater joy, as a kid, than to open one’s eyes in the morning and see your world blanketed in snow. For some, this joy and enthusiasm wanes as we grow and must navigate our world, now covered in frozen fractals. For...

Have you ever wondered… What was the first puzzle ever invented? Is there really an impossible puzzle? Can I be a professional puzzler when I grow up? As the winter doldrums settle in this month, National Puzzle Day, on January...

The latest buzz in math nowadays seems to be teaching kids the “why” behind math and emphasizing multiple strategies when working math problems. While there is nothing wrong with these pedagogies and there are huge benefits to...

Feeling equipped to educate students from kindergarten through high school is a huge confidence booster when tackling history studies. BiblioPlan resources parents to confidently teach history at any level from a Biblical...