Victoria Olivadoti

Critical Thinking-Crucial Success Skill

With the focus on passing tests to determine student success being the focus of so many educational institutions since the 1980’s, critical thinking has taken a backseat. It’s crucial that we help students recognize for every one opinion there should be several opposing opinions. Finding opposing opinions was much easier in the 1970’s when students […]

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Sandbox Mystery Writing Contest

Magic Lenses is my new story book designed to help students see how much better things can be when they are open to listening to others and their different ideas. The Magic Lenses opens the children’s eyes to the real beauty of working together. It also encourages students to imagine what other magic the lenses

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What is the Most Important Tool Students Need to Get the Leading Edge?

What is the tool they all possess but don’t know how to maximize it’s power? Here are some clues: It doesn’t plug in. It doesn’t run on conventional energy. It can be used any time of day or night and doesn’t require parent or teacher support. It gets teachers to teach to the learning style

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How I Survived 50 Years of Teaching

I’ve been asked, “Hw did you survive 5o years of teaching under the conditions teachers experience?” My answer is simple, “I listened every new next great idea in teaching demanded by administrators. I evaluated it considering the unique needs of each of my students, and if it was no aligned with that, I would nod

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Ban AI and It Becomes the Forbidden Fruit

Banning anything makes it the forbidden fruit and creates more of a desire to use it. Offering the fruit alone is not going to protect our children. Before we put our young people behind the wheel of a car, we warn them of all the hazards connected with driving one. We need to do the

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Why Children Procrastinate

Whether students are dealing with homework from conventional classrooms or are homeschoolers, children who procrastinate simply need to understand what is behind their procrastination. It can be different for different children. The following might behind your children’s failure at managing their time: Please share the challenges with time your students’ experience in the comment box.

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Meeting the Challenges of the Ever-Changing Devices

Teaching children to control their devices require parents to be sure the children are ready. Do they have the background they need to manage their devices effectively? In my book, User’s Beware-Stranger Danger Lurks Behind Children’s Screens, readers will learn whether their children are prepared for what lurks behind their screens. The following is an

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The Homework Doctor Has the Perfect Prescription to Cure Common Homework Ills

Ailment #1:“I don’t know what to do it Blues”  or “The teacher didn’t teach me this blues.” Cause: Many children are accustomed to their parents re-teaching homework concepts.  For this reason they do not feel a need to listen carefully in class.  In order for the brain to store information for more than 2-3 seconds

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