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The first lesson of the year s I write this editor’s note, weeks before I think of that long story of teacher support is the fuel for discovery. Our collective human this magazine will reach your reader — from the P.E. teacher who taught both knowledge all stems from that simple word: Ahands, my two children are in the daughters to ride bicycles, to the fifth-grade ignorance. Isn’t that incredible? kitchen baking scones for their Seattle teachers, teacher who taught my older child how to make In this pressure-cooker age of high-stakes who are about to begin a strike. Instead of a better PowerPoint than I can, to the first-grade testing and “finding your passion” we as parents starting third and fifth grades tomorrow, my teacher who deeply respected and understood should be focused not on pushing our kids to kids are planning to walk the picket line at our my younger daughter’s unique, meandering succeed as much as possible as soon as they neighborhood school, handing out breakfast mind — and I feel grateful. My kids have can, but on the process of inquiry. That process (they’ve planned cookies for an afternoon benefitted from educators who care about them, might be littered with failures. It likely will be. snack, too). Needless to say, the kids are thrilled nurture them, and push them to be responsible But on a curiosity-driven journey of inquiry, our on many levels, not the least of which is that for their actions. A wonderful teacher is one of children will develop into learned humans. More apparently summer is stretching on longer than the biggest gifts a child can receive, than good grades, diplomas, or high-paying anyone thought it could. Although a strike isn’t a gift that makes an impact for life. jobs, what I want for my daughters is the ideal way to begin a new school year, I am And one of the most impactful just that: a passion for learning, in all comforted by two facts: First, my daughters are lessons any mentor or adult can its forms. Whether they are making getting a pretty good, real-life lesson in social impart is something we explore calculations to solve climate change, studies, labor law, union history and politics. in-depth in this year’s feature, engineering a piece of jewelry in a 3-D And secondly, they have been handed the unique “The science of failure” (p. 20): printer (“Welcome to lab land,” p. 17) opportunity to now support their teachers the it’s OK to make mistakes. In fact, or measuring dough for strike scones, same way those teachers have supported them ignorance — not knowing the may our children always be learning. answer, doing the wrong thing — over the years. — Natalie Singer-Velush

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ullying has become a hot-button issue in our society, and for good reason. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, one out of three U.S. students reports being bullied Bat school. Children who are bullied are more likely to struggle with depression and anxiety, and their academic performance may also suffer. On the flip side, it’s been shown that children who bully others are more likely to engage in criminal activity as adults and be abusive toward their spouses and children. All these statistics drive home the point that the earlier we address bullying, the better. Many schools have implemented social-emotional and anti-bullying curriculum. Home is the other place Caitlin Flynn is a lifestyle and where you can teach these lessons and give your child strategies for coping and communicating. entertainment writer at bustle.com. This year, address bullying with the help of strong, age-appropriate storytelling. This curated list Before moving to Seattle, she worked at features eight books that address the issue in a thoughtful and empathetic manner and offer an excellent Random House Children’s Books way to start the important conversation about bullying with your child. in New York City.

Llama Llama and Marlene, Marlene, Spaghetti in a Hot Confessions of the Bully Goat Queen of Mean Dog Bun a Former Bully By Anna Dewdney (Ages: 3–5) By Jane Lynch & Lara Embry By Maria Dismondy (Ages: 3–7) By Trudy Ludwig (Ages: 6–9) Llama Llama loves learning, but (Ages: 3–7) Lucy embraces her uniqueness, When Katie is caught teasing Gilroy Goat’s incessant taunting Marlene is small but fierce, and especially her curly hair and a classmate one too many begins to make school miserable she uses her powers for evil rather appreciation for unusual food times, she meets with the for him and his friends. Gilroy than good. Her classmates cannot combinations. Her grandfather school counselor, principal calls them names, kicks dirt escape her incessant bullying and encourages her to be her own and her parents. Asked to look and mocks students who are unkind words. They aren’t safe on person and tells her, “We’re inside herself for answers about struggling. When Llama Llama the playground, in class or in the all different. What a boring why she bullies, Katie begins a tells a teacher what’s going on, halls of school. Finally one brave world it would be if we were journal and reflects on the ways Gilroy Goat is forced to take peer, Freddy, asks her why she has exactly alike.” Unfortunately, her her behavior has hurt her peers a long time-out. After having to be so mean. classmate Ralph makes fun of her and even herself. Katie’s diary time to reflect on his behavior, Marlene’s classmates take away for being unique, even after she entries are interspersed with Gilroy is given another chance her power by refusing to be afraid begins to cry. facts and advice about how to to play, and this time he treats of her. It forces her to realize When Ralph gets stuck on top handle bullying. The unique his classmates with respect that ruling the halls of school of the monkey bars during recess, perspective offers insight into and compassion. Llama Llama by being a bully is isolating, the tables are turned, and Lucy what drives kids to mistreat offers him a second chance at not empowering. She reforms has to make a choice about what their classmates and how being friends, and Gilroy gladly her ways, and everyone is way kind of person to be. In the end, authority figures can help accepts. happier — including Marlene. everyone learns a lesson. them reform. >> parentmap.com/learning ParentMap Learning 2015 • 7 bullying

Books to battle bullying continued from page 7

Wonder Because of Stargirl Thirteen By R.J. Palacio (Ages: 8–12) Mr. Terupt By Jerry Spinelli Reasons Why Ten-year-old Auggie was born By Rob Buyea (Ages: 8–12) (Ages: 12 and older) By Jay Asher (Ages: 12 and older) with a severe facial deformity that Fifth-grade teacher Mr. Terupt has When formerly homeschooled When Clay receives a mysterious causes young children to scream a knack for connecting with all his Stargirl enters high school as a package of cassette tapes, he’s in fear and older children to students, from the prankster to the sophomore, her classmates are shocked to hear the voice of his mock him as a “freak.” After being mean girl to the bullied. Without fascinated by her. She is whimsical, classmate and crush, Hannah, homeschooled, Auggie enters being preachy, he gets them to free-spirited and unapologetically who committed suicide two weeks fifth grade at a private school think about their actions and how nonconformist. Stargirl does earlier. She’s sent recordings to in New York City. While some their behavior affects those around things like serenade everyone on 13 peers explaining how their students welcome him, others are them. Told from the alternating their birthdays — complete with a actions contributed to her spiral of outwardly cruel or, worse, pretend perspectives of seven of Mr. ukulele. Although she enjoys a brief despair and ultimately her decision to be his friend and mock him Terupt’s students, we slowly gain stint of popularity, it doesn’t take to end her life. Clay listens to behind his back. insight into their backgrounds and long for her peers to turn on her. Hannah’s words as she describes Told from multiple their family lives. The book is narrated by Leo, the emotional toll of unrelenting perspectives, Wonder is a When an accident leaves Mr. who has strong feelings for gossip and cruel rumors from thoughtful look at how to handle Terupt in a coma, his students Stargirl, but ultimately isn’t brave merciless classmates. But he’s bullying with both courage and come together to support each enough to risk the reaction of their confused — he adored Hannah resilience. It also sends a positive other. While they have listened classmates. Thirty years later, he and never did anything to hurt her. message about standing by your to him throughout the year, they still thinks of her and is filled with As Clay finishes listening to the friends even when doing so may finally take his words to heart and regret. He made the mistake of recording, he learns that she has a make you “uncool” in the eyes of adjust their behaviors in ways that going along with the crowd, but special message for him. It turns your classmates. would make their teacher proud. he learned from it, and so do we. out, kindness matters. n EXPLORE NEW WORLDS book your field trip today! TOURS | WORKSHOPS | CURRICULUM GUIDES

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Organization uh-oh! Does your kid need an organization coach?

Executive function skills help us stay focused, make the transition to the next task and remember. But to succeed in school, some students need extra help building these skills.

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ear the end of elementary school, David Nstarted losing track of his papers. A lost worksheet here, a late book report there. Not unusual, really, among a fifth-grade teacher’s charges. Often came the reminder: “Use your planner” — that spiral-bound calendar provided or required by so many schools to help students organize assignments and due dates. But that system didn’t work for David. By the middle of high school, his continued struggles

with organization were affecting not only his MIKE KEMP / GETTY IMAGES grades, but also his entire outlook. So this past David’s organizational challenges fall Skills start early spring, he and his mother turned to an outside under the category of “executive function.” In school, children rely on their executive source for help: an educational services firm that Experts describe it as an “air traffic control function to follow instructions, make the specializes in brain therapies and organization- system” for the brain, responsible for transition between activities, persevere to solve skills coaching. working memory, self-control and mental problems and manage their time to complete “Everyone kept saying, ‘Use your planner, flexibility. Humans rely on these life skills assignments. Cognitive growth in these areas use your planner.’ Well, after four or five years, every day, almost without thinking about it, spikes in preschool, according to Harvard it became apparent — he wasn’t going to use whether to complete a multistep assignment University’s Center on the Developing Child, his planner!” says his mother, a Seattle-area or to plan dinner. Some children may and continues to increase through the teen physician who asked not to be identified for have diagnosed special needs in the area years. Executive function, Harvard researchers the sake of David’s privacy. (David is the boy’s of executive function, while many others say, is linked to successful social and work habits middle name.) “He was floundering. He was not simply need coaching, from professionals in adulthood; the center provides a series of age- succeeding at any of this stuff. And as a parent, or parents, to develop their own internal based online activity guides (developingchild. you just don’t want it to get that far.” systems and routines. harvard.edu; click on Resources, then Tools

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Organization uh-oh! continued from page 11 & Guides) to help parents promote executive says Cindy Lehman, a former teacher who, for the management: Kids typically don’t have a sense function development in their children. past 15 years, has run Lehman Learning Solutions of how much time a task will take, so help The Washington State Department of Early in Lake City. “By middle school, you’re into them verbalize a process. Model this by talking Learning (DEL) has spent the past two years multistep assignments. You have to organize your through how you set aside time to prepare piloting an executive function curricular program time, your materials, your information. If you’re dinner and follow a recipe, for example. — with activities to address self-regulation skills not good at that, then it becomes problematic “If you have language, then you can develop a such as impulse control — at a handful of day- for you. Disorganization gets in your way.” plan of action,” Bennett says. care centers and preschools around the state. Lehman and her staff work with children and Help children make choices about the goal Now, the department is planning an executive teens on a variety of issues, addressing academic of a task and the steps to follow to complete it function project that will involve parents in needs, learning disabilities and executive — maybe getting dressed for the day, or picking state-funded preschool programs. function. Help with organization is a common up toys. For toddlers and preschoolers, the idea is to request. The more families can slow down and take develop skills that precede task organization, An early step is to identify a system that time to tackle this skill, Bennett says, the better says Angela Abrams, professional development works for the student. David, for instance, equipped a child will be to manage himself later administrator for DEL. Activities such as “Simon didn’t like the paper planner, so Lehman on. Not every child needs explicit instruction Says” help them perceive and understand recommended he use an iPad app. (“It’s made a to develop executive function, she adds, but multiple instructions or steps of a process. As significant difference,” his mother says.) Some when a problem doesn’t go away — when a child children grow older, following a series of steps, kids like having a whiteboard calendar on the frequently is unable to complete a task, even whether in games or assignments, becomes a wall in their bedroom. when you break it down to two or three steps regular part of life. Another key: Designating an appropriate, — consider outside help. “It’s about being able “We’re calling out executive function as a quiet place for homework, with ready access to to step back and take the time to think about: skill set all its own,” says Abrams, who’s been pencils and other materials, and a system for What do I want my child to be able to do? How involved with the pilot project in Seattle, storing papers. Just having everything ready can do I teach my child how to make choices, how to Spokane, Vancouver and Bellingham. “We’re help procrastinators avoid distractions. break the task down?” Bennett says. “Instead of identifying the skills that children and adults Such processes give kids a foundation, telling them, ‘Clean up’ or ‘Get ready,’ the two of need to be successful and make us who we are.” Lehman and other educational therapists say. you sit down and decide what needs to be done.” But the goal is for the child to assume the Specialists agree: When a child takes Organizing materials responsibility. Parents tend to want to jump in ownership of a task, or feels that she’s had input While the skill building begins early, a child’s and sort through the backpack or check over the in decisions about that task, she is more apt to struggles with organization often manifest in homework, but where does that leave a teen who feel invested in it. intermediate or middle school — the time when eventually needs to make her own way? Louise Berman teaches organizational skills students start juggling multiple homework to small groups and sometimes, entire classes, in assignments and classes, and are expected to do Choices and ownership her role as counselor at a Snohomish elementary so independently. Organizational skill building can start early, school. She works with her intermediate “It’s a critical skill. When everything is says Barbara Bennett, a University District students on “backward planning”: Identify the organized, it creates a sense of peace and control,” educational consultant. Consider time due date of an assignment, say, a book report.

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0115_sweetie_pie_parenting_1-8h.indd 1 12/12/14 9:40 AM Circle it on a calendar. Then back up to figure out everything from how long it will take to find a book to how long it will take to edit the report. tips from the pros The key: Get their buy-in. Let them help call the shots. And if they make a mistake or miss a USE A CALENDAR. Pick a kind that works and plan accordingly: Which one is due deadline, allow that to be a teachable moment. for your child: Is it a school-provided first? Which one takes the longest? Which “We want them to think independently and planner? A display calendar? A whiteboard? one requires the most help? be problem solvers. Parents rescue kids far too Label assignment due dates, activities — TIDY WEEKLY. Ask your child to clean out anything your child needs to remember. often rather than let the natural consequences of his or her backpack once a week until it COLOR CODE. Use different colors of becomes routine. their behavior happen — that’s what they learn folders for different school subjects: green MAKE A SPACE. Create a bin of from. What are we really helping them with, by for science and red for math, for instance. homework supplies and designate a doing it for them?” says Berman, who serves FIND A STORAGE SYSTEM FOR PAPERS. distraction-free homework space as vice president of the Washington School If your child has trouble TAKE SHORT BREAKS. Counselor Association. throwing things away, Decide how much time “Once they can stand on their own, they can designate a stack — or a folder or a bin — for papers your child can spend on just soar. Once their self- confidence is up, they they don’t need but aren’t an assignment in one feel like they can do anything.” n ready to toss into the sitting and take a break recycling bin. if necessary. Kim Eckart is a Seattle-area writer, editor and PRIORITIZE. When deciding — Louise Berman, Barbara mother. She has been a newspaper reporter and what assignments to tackle Bennett, Cindy Lehman, editor, and, more recently, an elementary-school first, ask these questions scholastic.com teacher.

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But there came a time when she could see coding would significantly improve her project. TAF, part of Federal Way Public Schools, It’s not about an “The desire to make it better encouraged me has 350 students. Most began attending TAF in achievement gap, to try coding,” she says. sixth grade. Interested students apply; if there Some of the projects Bassi has developed are more applicants than openings, students it’s about an at TAF include a farm project that involved a are selected randomly through a drawing. The opportunity gap blueprint and specific animal-stall positioning. school has a 95 percent graduation rate and a She also created a jewelry neckpiece that was 100 percent college acceptance rate. inspired by a peacock, and a computer application Lorenzo Scott, a 2015 graduate who started over the next hurdle,” Tytler says. That’s where that analyzes how much water a family wastes. at the University of Washington, Tacoma this the richest learning takes place. Tyler Tetzloff, who created the energy- fall, began attending TAF in sixth grade. One of TAF boasts a STEM lab, called The producing stairs, says that biology and humanities 20 graduating seniors this spring, Scott says the Lighthouse, which features 3-D printers, are often taught through science fiction books small school community is part of the appeal, computer-assisted design capabilities, a such as I, Robot, Jurassic Park and Frankenstein. as is the project-based learning and one-to-one laser cutter, hand tools, microscopes for “We analyze how those books correlate to laptop availability. DNA barcoding and multimedia production real-life issues,” he says. The beauty in this type of learning is that it’s capabilities. TAF Academy is part of a movement taking not just a theory, says Paul Tytler, TAF Academy The lab, which opened this spring and was place around the country and in the Puget principal. The students apply their learning to created in part through by a sponsorship from Sound region that brings real-world problems to issues they care about. Seattle’s Wimmer Solutions, is called The students through the use of science, technology, Scott, for example, is passionate about Lighthouse because “it’s where bright ideas come engineering and math. Students are challenged political accountability. So he created an app that to life,” says Gabriel Bello-Diaz, an engineering to find solutions via project-based learning, tracks a politician’s accountability. instructor at TAF. often with the help of 3-D printers, STEM labs “The projects are something they’ve developed Bello-Diaz has a background in architectural and specialized equipment. themselves, so they are more motivated to go engineering. 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20 • ParentMap Learning 2015 parentmap.com/learning ilson Greatbatch was an inventor with more than brain. Early on in his teaching, he began to worry. Would his 150 patents. He wasn’t a doctor or a surgeon. students think that the textbook, with all its facts and data, He knew little, if anything, about the heart. But contained all that we need to know about the brain? Would they in 1956, when he was working on a device to think that they were learning everything that they would ever record heart sounds, he reached for a resistor need to know? These questions led Firestein to conclude that what to complete the device’s circuits, inadvertently picked up the wrong was missing in science courses was the idea that science, although size of resistor and installed it. With this innocent mistake, he found exhilarating and interesting, was more than facts and data, and that his device gave off an intermittent electrical pulse — the kind more than an orderly process. that could regulate a heart that was beating erratically. Instead of What science mostly consists of, Firestein believes, is ignorance. switching the circuit, Greatbatch ran with it, thereby changing Not the kind of ignorance that means dumb, but that which comes cardiac care forever by creating the pacemaker. from a gap in our knowledge; this ignorance is valuable because it We tend to think that science is orderly and clean, with neat facts leads us to great discoveries. that line up on the pages of science textbooks. We also think that How do we find out what we don’t know? Right now, our science is full of eureka moments of discovery, such as Alexander students do their research primarily on Google. But to use Google, Graham Bell’s “Mr. Watson, come here” moment. Actually, science one must first have a question to pose. A simple question can get 1 is more ponderous than that. It requires diligence, and inherent million responses. A refined question can garner 10,000, and a more in it are many, many failed moments like that of Greatbatch’s. refined question can get us to maybe 150 responses. Questions, says Stuart Firestein, author of Ignorance: How It Drives Science, likes Firestein, are the keys to ignorance. Not just one, but one question to describe science as a magic well: “No matter how many buckets after another, after another. This is how we begin to make great of water you remove, there’s always another one to be had.” While science. And this is the science, driven forward by both questions science gives us a sense that it is an orderly process, says Firestein, and mistakes — by giving value to both ignorance and failure — “it almost never is.” that we want our children to be learning. As a professor at Columbia University, Firestein runs a But are they? In a climate of high-stakes testing and results-driven neuroscience lab and teaches an undergraduate course on the academic approaches, some say no. >> parentmap.com/learning ParentMap Learning 2015 • 21 ARTS + ACTIVITIES

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formations, questions about chemical reactions in questions that the students ask. Other barriers the body may not be relevant. But that old adage exist, too: Students may not be encouraged to that there’s never a stupid question still exists. ask questions. Sometimes students don’t have If ignorance is the beginning of the scientific Who would have thought that Leonardo da Vinci, the basic knowledge to know where to start process, then questions are the foundation on who was fascinated by how water moved in and with a question. And often, students will not ask which scientists lay their path. To change science around objects and studied the dynamics of its questions for fear of sounding stupid or making in the classroom from a facts- and results- flow, would figure out how blood moved through a mistake. driven discipline to a prelude to discovery, we the heart’s valves? We must first acknowledge that “I think that the fear of sounding stupid must embrace the idea that ignorance begets a questions need to be asked. contributes to not responding to a teacher’s question, which then leads to more questions. To do that, we must create a place where question and not answering the question,” says “Every scientific fact started out as a question,” it’s safe for students to ask questions — even Rothstein. “What we are establishing [by asking says Firestein. So we have to teach students “stupid” ones. questions] is that we are honoring ignorance. from the beginning that we want to focus on the This is why Stuart Firestein’s book spoke so questions rather than the facts, he says. clearly to what we do. We really have to make But what questions matter? How do we figure out which are the right questions? When you students more comfortable asking questions.” don’t know something and you want to know it, While a curriculum that focuses on questions you ask, right? That’s curiosity. “We feel curious works well in most disciplines, it works where there is a gap between what we know and especially well in science classrooms. According We all know that making mistakes is a valuable what we want to know,” says Ian Leslie, author to a brief from the Center for Inspired Teaching, life skill. We tell ourselves that making a mistake of Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your which shows positive outcomes from schools is just a part of learning; that everyone makes Future Depends On It. using the inquiry process, inquiry learning them, and a mistake doesn’t measure how Scientists, says Leslie, have to look in places focuses mainly on students’ questions as the dumb or smart a person is. But actually, most where no one else has ever thought to look, to center of the curriculum. Teachers help guide Americans tend to view mistakes as failures, says close that gap by asking lots of questions. This is students in generating their own content-related Alina Tugend, author of Better by Mistake: The true in the classroom, too. investigations. Key to this process is a classroom Unexpected Benefits of Being Wrong. “We tend to Dan Rothstein, co-author of Make Just environment where it’s OK to ask questions. be focused more on results in this country than One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own But existing institutional barriers in on the process. People say that they are not, but Questions, believes that the single most important education often prohibit this simple yet valuable everything we do, from testing to jobs, is about skill that anyone can have for learning is the function. Most of the time, says Rothstein, the not making mistakes,” Tugend says. ability to ask a question. But not all questions are focus in the classroom is on the question that And no place in America is more results pertinent. Sure, if students are studying cloud the teacher asks of the students, and not the driven than the classroom. A 2013 study by the ARTS + ACTIVITIES

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The science of ignorance Build your continued from page 23 American Federation of Teachers blocks, it takes time and effort. found that the time students spent Despite the clash this often best taking tests ranged from 20 to 50 creates with a results-driven testing hours per year in heavily tested environment, some teachers grades. In addition to taking tests, are working to encourage their students also spent from 60 to students to accept their mistakes bookshelf more than 110 hours per year in and learn through process. test preparation. The pressure on One teacher who has “Keen insight into the inner world of children.” —Marsha Linehan, Ph.D. students today to produce results, transformed his classroom by as measured by test scores, is focusing on inquiry is high school Getting to immense. science teacher Tim Renz of Foster We want results, but we also High School in the Tukwila School CALM want kids to learn by asking District. Recently he worked THE EARLY YEARS questions, being curious and by on a cerebral malaria project in Cool-Headed Strategies for Raising Happy, Caring, and Independent Three- to Seven-Year-Olds making mistakes, too. This creates a laboratory at the Center for a dilemma not easily solved. Infectious Disease Research in “Teachers are in a tough situation Seattle. Not only did he have an in this country. Testing … is all amazing chance to do “real science” about results. No one says that in a “real laboratory,” but he came you had a great effort doing the away from the experience with SAT — all that matters is the final the tools that forever changed his Laura S. Kastner, Ph.D. score,” Tugend says. “I think that teaching in his own classroom. “Kastner masterfully guides parents through the complex maze of parenting.” there is a sense among adults and While most labs in schools —Yaffa Maritz, director, , cause parenting is a trip! Community of Mindful Parenting kids that we don’t have the patience are essentially confirmation- “Powerful . . . discusses sex and relationships for effort.” We have to remember, in language boys will based labs — meaning students understand. This is an invaluable book!” says Tugend, that for most of us, do experiments only to confirm —Michael Gurian, author of The Wonder of Boys learning is a long, hard slog marked their answers — Renz says he by trying, failing, trying and failing. wants his students to use a more In science, says Firestein, open-inquiry lab. In such a lab, failure is what makes science work Renz says, “students are not only because “it is failures that allow us developing their own investigative Spare Me to determine the boundaries of our plans, but also developing their knowledge and our ignorance.” In own investigative questions.” ‘The Talk’! his upcoming book, Failure: Why A Guy’s Guide to Sex, With their final lab results, Relationships, and Growing Up Science Is So Successful, Firestein students in Renz’s class present JO LANGFORD, M.A. explores failure in science. “We their claims and defend them to fail quite a bit in science. There their peers. “Students are taught to “Emphasizing kindness and responsibility, Langford provides comprehensive information for teen boys about one of life’s riskiest realms.” are many wonderful stories of , , be open to new ideas and to have —Laura Kastner, Ph.D., author of causecause parenting parenting is a is trip! a trip! Getting to Calm and Wise-Minded Parenting failure,” Firestein says. “It is really informed skepticism,” Renz says. fascinating to think that very, very “Asking good questions, developing smart people thought a certain way good investigative questions, ORDER NOW and could be wrong.” making great observations, and analyzing their data and developing parentmap.com a claim that they can support with evidence and reasoning will lead The best science learning is all them to be great critical thinkers. amazon.com about process, asking questions [It gets] to the ‘why’ part of the and making mistakes. Like building science world.”

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e teachers often tell parents about Make studying homework. If your child is going to be in transit the importance of creating solid l1 on the go easier a lot, make sure they have access to enough study routines at home. Advice W While it’s great to have a desk and homework healthy snacks and meals. (Find creative ideas, revolves around the idea that kids should come space everywhere your child resides or including hot meals for families on the run, at home, have a healthy snack and immediately get parentmap.com/thermosmeals spends time, prepare for homework to be .) working. Homework should be done at a central location, so parents can hover nearby, monitor done anywhere. All necessary supplies and Use technology productivity and sound out letters or explain completed work should stay permanently in l2 to your advantage a backpack, organized with folders and pencil how to calculate the correlation coefficient. Older kids might be alone in the hours after cases. Many schools give your child access to But for many parents, this is frustrating or school. How do you supervise them from afar? online textbooks or even additional books. (If even useless advice. You might still be at work High school English teacher Kris Gonzalez has while your children are supposed to be eating you aren’t sure of what’s available, ask.) If your her students take pictures of completed work those apples and sharpening those pencils. If child has a smartphone, he or she should get into and text it to parents as proof of completion. your child splits time between you and another the habit of taking pictures of relevant textbook Parent Alicia Sambrano-Priest, who often parent in different homes, routines can be hard pages so they are always available. For kids who doesn’t get home from work until close to to establish. If you are a solo parent, keeping live in more than one home, most teachers are all the afternoon or evening balls in the air can bedtime, changes the family Wi-Fi password willing to distribute two copies of parent notes be especially challenging. And many families daily; her son receives the new password as soon and school flyers so that all caregivers stay in the with multiple kids and busy schedules find as she receives the text message showing his loop and the student doesn’t have an additional themselves on the move many afternoons and homework has been finished. even evenings with soccer practice, pickups, burden placed on them. Some kids might benefit commutes and dance classes. But even for the from extra copies of homework; multiple folders Enlist teachers and busiest families and in the most challenging help keep things straight if the child is moving l3 other school resources situations, there are still many ways to create around a lot. Speak with the teacher about your Most teachers are available before and after consistency, establish routines and hold your situation and make them a partner. school to help students. Not only do we teachers kids accountable for homework. Hungry kids have a hard time focusing on know the specific assignments needed to raise parentmap.com/learning ParentMap Learning 2015 • 29 S C H O O L S

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Study with your If your workplace doesn’t allow you to make phone l6 child once a week 1-to-1 or 1-to-2 Although you might not have time to help with calls or if your kids have friends who are exceptionally Test preparation good at impersonating adult voices, try email. If homework every day, try to plan a study evening at least transportation is an issue, some schools have a late bus once a week. Do this at home, or try it at a local coffee Homework help or activity bus that will pick up students an hour after shop or restaurant, where you can do homework over Study skills school ends. Also, contact the school counselor and ask lattes or pizza. Bring along your laptop and catch up about resources. Often, homework clubs, peer tutors on emails, pay bills or peruse Facebook while your kid Over 30 locations and volunteer groups are sitting around after school, annotates that speech or labels the anatomy of a cell. nationwide! just waiting to help students tackle their homework. 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Expect a student in middle school or high school try creating an incentive for them to prove they are ® to study every single day, not just “when they have OLS capable of studying on their own. You can even pass the $15 child-care cost along to your kid in the form of homework.” I once ran an after-school homework Optimal Learning allowance. club (attendance was mandatory for students who Solutions were failing two classes), and my charges would often Monitor grades online claim they didn’t have any homework. I would nod l5 and in person in understanding, open up a random textbook and When schedules are hectic, children are splitting prepare them to start taking notes. Invariably, they TUTORING time between different caregivers, or parents are would suddenly remember that they actually did have AD/HD COACHING overwhelmed, it can be challenging to monitor your an essay to work on after all. Don’t accept claims of not student’s progress closely. 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tarting grade school can be unnerving for first-time students and parents: a big, Snew school building to navigate, new expectations and many unknowns. Will my child make friends? Get over her shyness? Settle down at her desk? Eat her lunch? These are common concerns. Many parents of kindergartners today have an additional worry: Should my child be reading? “Getting kindergartners ready for elementary school does not mean substituting academics for playtime, forcing children to master first- grade ‘skills’ or relying on standardized tests to assess children’s success,” stated the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) in 1996. But since then, kindergarten has become increasingly academic, leading many to view kindergarten as the new first grade. A recent report by the Alliance for Childhood and Defending the Early Years titled are 11 as those who were taught to read at age 5. “Reading Instruction in Kindergarten: Little to My experience as a In Finland, where students consistently rank Gain and Much to Lose” raises new concerns parent and early in the top 10 on the Program for International about the changing nature of kindergarten Student Assessment (PISA) scale, formal since the introduction of the Common Core education teacher has reading instruction begins when children are 7 State Standards. The report places particular shown me that children years old, when they enter school after years of emphasis on the expectation that, by the end free universal day care through age 5 and a year of kindergarten, children will be able to “read do not need to be of preschool/kindergarten at age 6. This system emergent-reader texts with purpose and is based on the belief that children learn best understanding” and draws attention to the drilled to learn to read. through play until the age of 7 and will therefore absence of the phrase “with prompting and enter school with an eagerness to learn. support,” which precedes other standards. primed for such development — we can look to This approach rings true for me: My research and a variety of education case studies. experience as a parent and early education New standards If your child at age 5 or 6 has little or no interest teacher has shown me that children do not need The Common Core standards were adopted by in sounding letters into words and progressing to be drilled to learn to read. Early reading is Washington state in 2011, and standards for through the books known as level readers, this highly dependent on foundational skills. Many English language arts and mathematics were fully research will reassure you. children will learn to read by the age of 6 as incorporated into the state learning standards Sebastian Suggate, a professor of psychology a natural progression from emergent literacy during the 2014–15 school year. Common who teaches at the Alanus University of Arts or imitating reading and writing behavior. Core attempts to standardize expectations for and Social Sciences in Bonn, Germany, and who Many schooling philosophies, including the children’s educational achievements at the end studied early childhood reading in 2007, found Montessori approach, are based on a child-led of each grade level, but does not dictate how no solid evidence of long-term gains for children path to literacy. My own children learned in this teachers achieve these goals. who were taught to read in kindergarten. way, and both have reading ages way beyond To understand when a child needs to learn Children who learn to read later do just as well their years. Of course, some children will still to read — including when the brain is most in scholastic measurements by the time they need specialist support, but I believe pushing

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children before they are ready creates a negative 1970s comparing play-based and highly directed attitude toward reading that is difficult to reverse. kindergartens. Children attending play-based Jason Yeatman, assistant professor at the programs excelled beyond the other group in all what to do at home University of Washington’s Institute of Learning 17 measures. As a result, German kindergartens and Brain Sciences (I-LABS), explains that returned to a play-based format. Read together every day. Early in brain development, there is substantial In play-based kindergartens and preschools, literacy experts Sue Palmer and Ros variability in the rate and timing of maturation teachers intentionally design language and literacy Bayley recommend preschool children from one child to the next. “Particularly when experiences that help prepare children to become share five stories a day, returning to familiar books until they can “read we look at the brain’s reading circuitry, children’s fluent readers. Teachers observe children engaged along.” Keep it fun, not a chore. growth rates are quite heterogeneous,” Yeatman in meaningful experiences and then create More tips: parentmap.com/earlyreading authentic documentation of growth and progress. says. “A one-size-fits-all model of education is Eat dinner together to promote surely inferior to a model that tailors instruction Yet in many elementary-school kindergartens, important skills for reading writing and to an individual’s needs.” reading goals encourage teachers to teach to comprehension. Encourage discussion, Advocating for a child-led approach to the test and focus on straight academics versus taking turns, listening and telling literacy does not mean that literacy concepts play. A recent study by University of Virginia stories about your day. should not be introduced early — they researchers found that in 2006, kindergarten Sing together and learn rhymes. These help children to recognize rhyme, should be, most experts agree. With an early teachers spent as much time on literacy activities rhythm and patterns in language. introduction, students who might struggle as on mathematics, science, social studies, music Seek words and letters in the or lack foundational language skills (which and art combined. environment, pointing out words on can impede reading) can be identified and With the pressure of test scores and many common signs. competing demands of kindergarten classrooms, helped. Early literacy introduction is, however, Model being a reader. Give your child very different from a performance-focused the ability for children to build literacy at a opportunities to see you reading and environment in which kids are constantly natural pace could be at risk. writing by writing notes and lists with measured and drilled. But remember, when parents are worried, they your child, keeping a notice board in often project this onto their children. And there your kitchen and showing children that books are to be treasured. Play is the way is much that we can do at home to build the right Research suggests that the best way to promote environment and attitude toward literacy. n Play games that help your child foundational literacy is through play. A number discriminate between two sounds. For example, hide two instruments or of studies point to greater gains for children Rachel McClary is a British early education sound-making toys behind your back attending play-based preschool compared consultant, writer and mother of three. and ask your child to guess which you to preschools with an academic focus. The She is a qualified teacher with a master’s are playing; or go on a walk together to Alliance for Childhood report cites, among degree in psychology of education. She blogs find different sounds. others, a German longitudinal study in the at rachelmcclary.com. SCHOOLS + PRESCHOOLS Summer Camp

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Eastside Pediatric Dental Group . . . 16 Pacific Northwest Montessori PARENT RESOURCES Specialists in oral health for kids of Association ...... 35 Allegro Pediatrics all ages Montessori School Directory, teaching (formerly Pediatric Associates) . . . . 5 Issaquah; 425-392-4048 positions, events Quality children’s health care in your eastsidepediatricdentalgroup.com Statewide neighborhood pnma.org 8 Eastside locations Family Psychological Services [email protected] 425-827-4600 of Kirkland, P.S...... 31 Assessment and services for struggling allegropediatrics.com Pediatric Speech and Language students Therapy ...... 12 American Cancer Society ...... 4 Kirkland Communication assessment and intervention Cancer education, research, treatment 425-576-1817 for children and resources fpskirkland.com Nationwide Seattle, Bellevue Lice Knowing You ( 800-227-2345 206-547-2500 Lice- and nit-free in only one treatment pediatricspeechtherapy.org cancer.org 4 Puget Sound locations [email protected] 206-654-LICE Child Care Aware of liceknowingyou.com Washington Family Center ...... 10 Puget Sound Independent Helping parents find child care across Lynnwood Kids Dentist ...... 16 Schools ...... 14–15 Washington Comprehensive pediatric dental care Admissions collaborative connecting families Statewide; 206-329-1011 or 800-446-1114 Lynnwood; 425-774-1285 and schools childcarenet.org kidsdentist.com Greater Puget Sound area [email protected] [email protected] pugetsoundindependentschools.org SCHOOLS + PRESCHOOLS Homeschool Science Classes & Adventures plore cience trog anon eperiment actiitie emontration an inirae learning. toor actiitie an natre al incle

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SweetiePie Parenting ...... 12 Asia Pacific Language School . . . . . 41 Bellevue Montessori ( ...... 36 Love and Logic® parenting classes Chinese and Japanese preschool, Inspiring life-long learners; ages 3–12 Greater Seattle kindergarten, after care Bellevue 206-200-8488 Bellevue; 425-747-4172, 425-641-1703 425-454-7439 sweetiepieparenting.com apls.org; [email protected] bellmontessori.com [email protected] Assumption-St. Bridget School ( Bertschi School ( Washington Early Achievers . . . . . 10 Comprehensive, Catholic education; Balanced education for pre-K–grade 5 Preparing children for success in school pre-K–grade 8 Seattle; 206-324-5476 Statewide Seattle; 206-524-7452 bertschi.org 866-482-4325 asbschool.org; [email protected] [email protected] del.wa.gov/care/qris/ The Bear Creek School ( ...... 30 Billings Middle School ( Christian liberal arts education; Dynamic academic community, SCHOOLS + preschool–grade 12 excellent faculty PRESCHOOLS Redmond; 425-898-1720 Seattle; 206-547-4614 tbcs.org; [email protected] billingsmiddleschool.org Academy Schools ...... 41 Small enough to make a big difference; Bellevue Christian School ( . . . . . 35 Cedar Crest Academy ...... 35 pre-K–grade 12 Comprehensive Christian education; An academically enriching program; Tukwila preschool–grade 12 preschool–grade 5 206-588-0860 Bellevue; 425-454-4402 ext. 215 Bellevue, Kirkland, Redmond academyschools.org bellevuechristian.org 425-454-1234 [email protected] [email protected] cedarcrestacademy.org >> SCHOOLS + PRESCHOOLS Asia Paciﬁ c Language School Academic Success With A Second Language PRE-K 12th Grade CHINESE & JAPANESE Nurturing each child’s Summer Language Camp High School Credits unique potential Enrichment Classes Ages 15 months - 6 years Kindergarten & Pre-K Summer in China 24326 SE Issaquah-Fall City Road Abacas & Asian Culture Issaquah 98029 Small classes & Learning Groups 425.557.7705 www.apls.org 425-641-1703 • 425-747-4172 issaquahmontessori.com

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 Max 10 Students per Grade The School You’ve Been Searching For  Inspiring Teachers The only AMS-accredited Montessori school in Sammamish and Redmond.  Challenging Curriculum 14601 Interurban  Robotics, Chess, Legos, Music, Ave. S. Computer, Field Trips & Outdoor Please join us for our Open House Tukwila Environmental Learning Center November 21, 2015 • 10:00AM-12:00PM Centrally Located  Creative After School Clubs & Child I-5/405 Care RSVP at www.MCHkids.com or call (425) 868-7805 Interchange at  Adventurous & Academic Discovery • Serene 5-acre campus Southcenter and Summer Academy • Farm animals on-site 206-588-0860 www.academyschools.org • Infants through Elementary

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LM15_academy_schools_1-8h.indd 1 9/3/15 9:28 AM SCHOOLS + PRESCHOOLS SnoSpringS School PRE-K thru 3rd Grade The Sammamish Montessori School In Redmond Call 425-883-3271 for a tour.

• Child-centered, joyful atmosphere • Accelerated Academic Program with strong academic focus • Experienced, Compassionate Teachers • Experienced, Montessori-certified • Individualized Instruction teachers • After School Enrichment Program • Preschool, kindergarten and elementary • Science, Technology, Spanish, Fitness • Located at the end of SR 520 in • Now Celebrating Our 18th Year Redmond • Top 3 Finalist Small Business Award • Family owned and operated Call Today! (established 1977) • Summer, before & after school programs *Foundation Education* Issaquah / Sammamish Plateau 425-392-1196 www.sammamishmontessori.com www.snosprings.com Snoqualmie Springs School 425-883-3271

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Charles Wright Academy ( Forest Ridge School KapKa Cooperative School ( . . . . 30 Private, independent day school; of the Scared Heart ( ...... 30 Collaborative, experiential learning; pre-K–grade 12 Catholic, all-girls school for grades 5–12 grades K–5 Tacoma; 253-620-8373; charleswright.org Bellevue; 425-641-0700 Seattle; 206-522-0350 [email protected] kapkaschool.org; [email protected] forestridge.org; [email protected] Chestnut Hill Academy ( ...... 44 King’s Schools ( ...... 44 French American School Private day school for grades K–5 Supportive Christian education for Bellevue; 425-372-2800 of Puget Sound ( ...... 27 preschool–grade 12 chestnuthillacademy.com Excellence today, the world tomorrow; Seattle; 206-289-7783 [email protected] preschool–grade 8 kingsschools.org Mercer Island; 206-275-3533 Christ the King School ...... 36 Lake Washington Girls Catholic, individualized learning; fasps.org; [email protected] Middle School ( preschool–grade 8 French Bilingual Association . . . . . 45 Experiential, holistic education for girls; Seattle; 206-364-6890 grades 6–8 ckseattle.org; [email protected] Bilingual French middle school classes; grades 6–8 Seattle; 206-709-3800 Chrysalis School ...... 38 Bellevue; frenchbilingual.org lwgms.org; [email protected] Personalized learning for grades K–12 [email protected] Le Petit Village French Woodinville; 425-481-2228 Immersion School ...... 34 chrysalis-school.com; [email protected] French Immersion School A happy, healthy learning environment; ( ...... 28 Eastside Catholic School ( . . . . 38, 40 of Washington ages 2–5 Faith-based learning; grades 6–12 Preschool and elementary school; Seattle; 206-329-4336 Sammamish; 425-295-3014 age 2½–grade 5 leptvillage.com; [email protected] eastsidecatholic.org Bellevue; 425-653-3970 [email protected] fisw.org; [email protected] Little Explorer Preschool ...... 45 Play- and literacy-based curriculum; Eastside Christian School ( . . . . . 37 French Mornings Preschool ...... 34 ages 2½–5 Strong academics, Christian worldview; French immersion education for preschoolers Woodinville; 425-486-5499 preschool–grade 8 Seattle; 206-422-4305 littleexplorerpreschool.com Bellevue; 425-641-5570 [email protected] ecswa.org; [email protected] frenchmorningspreschool.com The Little School ( ...... 30 Hillside Student Community Eastside Preparatory School . . . . . 28 Experiential, child-centered learning; Inspiring grades 5–12 to think, act, lead, School ( ...... 38 ages 3–11 innovate Small college prep school for grades 5–12 Bellevue; 425-827-8708 Kirkland; 425-822-5668 Bellevue; 425-747-6448 thelittleschool.org; [email protected] eastsideprep.org; [email protected] hillsidesc.org; [email protected] Living Wisdom School ...... 30 Epiphany School ...... 27 Hope Lutheran School ...... 32 Joyful, mindful, individualized preschool– Independent, non-sectarian school; Rigorous academics, Christian faith; grade 8 preK–grade 5 Shoreline; 425-772-9862 Seattle; 206-720-7663; epiphanyschool.org preschool–grade 8 livingwisdomschoolseattle.org [email protected] West Seattle; 206-935-8500 hls.hopeseattle.org The Meridian School ...... 30 The Evergreen School ( ...... 25 [email protected] Caring community promoting a balance of Serving highly capable learners; preschool–grade 8 ( work and play Issaquah Montessori School . . . . 41 Seattle; 206-632-7154 Shoreline/N. Seattle; 206-364-0801 Nurturing learning community; evergreenschool.org meridianschool.edu ages 15 months–6 [email protected] Issaquah; 425-557-7705 Montessori Children’s House . . . . . 41 Explorer West Middle School ( issaquahmontessori.com AMS-accredited Montessori school; Rigorous academics, Latin, art, drama, music, [email protected] infants–grade 6 outdoor ed Redmond; 425-868-7805 Seattle; 206-935-0495 JDS: The Jewish Day School mchkids.com; [email protected] explorer-west.org; [email protected] ( of Metropolitan Seattle ...... 28 Montessori School of Seattle . . . . . 32 Faith Lutheran School of Redmond ( . . 38 Jewish community school; Nurturing the love of learning in ages 2½–6 Private school, small classes; preschool and early childhood–grade 8 Seattle; 206-325-0497 elementary Bellevue; 425-460-0200 montessorischoolofseattle.com Redmond; 425-885-1810; faithredmond.org jds.org; [email protected] [email protected] >>

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Morning Star School, Inc. ( The Overlake School ( Seattle Academy ( ...... 27 Preschool/pre-K, extended/full care, Curriculum with commitment to diversity; College prep curriculum for grades 6–12 school-age care grades 5–12 Seattle; 206-324-7227 Kenmore; 425-486-9333 Redmond; 425-868-1000 seattleacademy.org [email protected] morningstarschool.com overlake.org; [email protected] Seattle Area German Morningside Academy ( ...... 32 Puget Sound Community School ( . . .45 American School – SAGA ...... 34 Rigorous full-year and summer; grades 1–9 Turning passion into achievement; grades 6–12 Language immersion for preschool–grade 3 Seattle; 206-709-9500 Seattle; 206-442-2023 Seattle; 206-324-4350 morningsideacademy.org sagaschool.org; [email protected] pscs.org; [email protected] [email protected] Seattle Country Day School ( . . . . 26 Queen Margaret’s School ( . . . . . 37 The Northwest School ( Inspiring gifted K–8 students through inquiry Boarding school for girls, on-campus College preparatory school; grades 6–12 learning equestrian program Seattle; 206-682-7309 Seattle; 206-284-6220; seattlecountryday.org Vancouver Island, BC; 250-746-4185 [email protected] northwestschool.org qms.bc.ca; [email protected] Seattle Jewish Community Open Window School ( Sammamish Montessori School ( . . 42. School ( ...... 36 For gifted kids who love to learn; grades K–8 Art, sports, science, more; ages 3–10 Exceptional K–5 education for all Jewish Bellevue; 425-747-2911 Redmond; 425-883-3271 children openwindowschool.org sammamishmontessori.com Seattle; 206-522-5212 [email protected] [email protected] sjcs.net; [email protected] SCHOOLS + PRESCHOOLS

Parents want a school that offers challenging academics taught by teachers that care. The test scores at King’s are impressive and even more so are the teachers. King’s students are given unique opportunities inspired by teachers that settle for nothing less than the best from their students. Contact us today. 206-289-7783 www.kingsschools.org Preschool through High School Financial Aid Available

Discover an Extraordinary Place of Learning Degrees & Certiﬁcates Chestnut Hill Academy is a private day school for boys and girls, kindergarten through ﬁ fth grade. We provide a progressive academic Co-op Preschools curriculum to help children reach their full potential. • Open House October 3, 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Parent-Child Center • Learn about our unique Leader In Me program, strong test scores on standardized tests & extra-curricular activities

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Shoreline Christian School ( . . . . 45 St. John Catholic School ...... 37 Temple De Hirsch Sinai’s Academic and spiritual excellence; Challenging academics for preschool–grade 8 Jennifer Rosen Meade Preschool . . . 42 preschool–grade 12 Seattle; 206-783-0337 Play-based preschool in a welcoming Shoreline; 206-364-7777 st-johnschool.org Jewish environment shorelinechristian.org Bellevue St. Joseph School ( ...... 26 206-315-7428 Shoreline Community College . . . . 44 Catholic education for students; grades K–8 tdhs-nw.org 100+ academic, professional/technical, Seattle; 206-329-3260 [email protected] training programs stjosephsea.org Three Cedars Waldorf School ( Shoreline; 206-546-4101 [email protected] Superior Waldorf education; shoreline.edu St. Thomas School ( ...... 25 preschool–grade 8 Bellevue Snoqualmie Springs School ...... 42 Challenging, non-sectarian school; 425-401-9874 Accelerated academic program for preschool–grade 8 threecedarswaldorf.org pre-K–grade 3 Medina; 425-454-5880 [email protected] Sammamish/Issaquah; 425-392-1196 stthomasschool.org snosprings.com; [email protected] [email protected] University Child Development School — UCDS ...... 27 Spruce Street School ( Sunny World School ...... 32 Cultivating reflective, skillful thinkers; Personalized instruction for students Bilingual English and Mandarin preschool; pre-K–grade 5 ages 5–11 ages 2½–6 Seattle Seattle; 206-621-9211 Bellevue; 425-531-7586 206-547-8237 sprucestreetschool.org sunnyworldschool.com ucds.org [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] >> SCHOOLS + PRESCHOOLS M-Th AM SHORELINE CHRISTIAN preschool and PM pre-K Upcoming Open Houses Friday toddler group Pre-k to 12th Grade November 12, 2015

We oﬀ er a fun and educational Kindergarten play-based setting with weekly themes, December 3, 2015 with an emphasis on literacy. • Low child to teacher ratio • Wholesome, nut-free snacks with Preschool GF/DF options January 21, 2016

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UW Robinson Center for Woodinville Montessori School ( . . 30 LearningRX ...... 13 Young Scholars ...... 13 Montessori program for toddlers–high school Brain training for dyslexia, ADHD, autism, Acceleration and enrichment for highly Bothell, Woodinville; 425-482-3184 more capable students woodinvillemontessori.org Issaquah; 425-657-0908 Seattle; 206-543-4160 [email protected] learningrx.com/Issaquah robinsoncenter.uw.edu [email protected] [email protected] TUTORING, TESTING Lindamood-Bell Learning Center . . . 16 Villa Academy ...... 26 Teaching reading, comprehension and math Catholic, independent school serving + CONSULTING Bellevue preschool–grade 8 Best in Class Education Center . . . . 31 425-827-6288 Seattle; 206-524-8885 English, math, tutoring, test prep, more; lindamoodbell.com thevilla.org pre-K–grade 12 [email protected] [email protected] 10 Puget Sound locations; 888-683-8108 Russian School of Mathematics ( Westside School ( bestinclasseducation.com After-school math enrichment; grades K–12 Joyful learning, engaging curriculum; Hallowell Todaro Center ...... 10 pre-K–grade 8 Bellevue ADHD assessment, coaching and therapy Seattle; 206-932-2511 425-518-6114 Seattle; 206-420-7645 westsideschool.org russianschool.com [email protected] hallowelltodarocenter.org [email protected] [email protected] Whole Earth Montessori School ( . . .42 Singapore Math Club ...... 46 Montessori learning environment for ages Kumon Math and Reading Centers . . . 2 Math enrichment program for grades K–6 2½–12 After-school academic enrichment program Bellevue Bothell; 425-486-3037 Multiple Puget Sound locations 425-644-6056 wemschool.org 800-ABC-MATH singaporemathclub.com [email protected] kumon.com [email protected]

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