Click here to Subscribe to Victoria’s Blog Every year I asked my students to write stories geared to eight year olds. The source for their stories were challenges they had faced and overcome. The personal experience provided them with all the details and a ready made plot. When asked to describe the feelings of their
“As we move into the 21st century, we need to prepare our children for the information age. Parents’ roles will now need to focus on helping their children navigate the information highway. The computer age will require students become adept at problem solving and time-management. Technology is changing so fast that more than likely the
I wrote the following poem about 26 years ago with my mother, that expressed the challenges we were having with children being too dependent on their parents to help them with homework. I sit at this paper and I stare and I think. This homework and these projects have me right on the brink! The
Children are manifesting many puzzling behaviors today. Parents are reporting unexplained tantrums. When asked why they threw a fit, most children can’t explain it. Others are avoiding work that they once would tackle without trouble. I believe we are seeing the impact of a prolonged period of unnatural stress and fear. Many students are absorbing
Victoria is an educational consultant, nationally recognized speaker. Her over 50 years in education has been focused on developing resilient self-reliant self-advocates who know how to tap into their innate ability to independently solve challenges.