Whole Education and Adverse Childhood Experiences
It’s pleasant to imagine that all children are well-adjusted, happy little creatures, soaking up knowledge and experiencing live joyfully. While that’s the case with many kids, the sad truth in…
Author: Alan Gottlieb, Compositive Staff
Helping your child develop essential middle school skills
The middle school years are a vital developmental stage, during which our children must learn to navigate choppy waters with as little parental interference as possible. Phyllis L. Fagell, a…
The unintended biases of free-range parenting
Free-range parenting, a kind of antidote to the helicopter parenting that has plagued our society for the past couple of decades, has become a fad. But for some parents, it’s…
Homework needn’t be a battle of wills: expert
The Washington Post’s excellent parenting column lays out several strategies for taking the struggle out of homework.
Compositive: Peace, wellness and rigor at Namaste charter
Academy for Global Citizenship focuses on health & sustainability
Academy for Global Citizenship students are wholly engaged in their school, their community, and the world around them. That engagement takes many forms, but two stand out: wellness and sustainability.
Compositive: Overview: IB Primary Years and whole education at Academy for Global Citizenship
Compositive: A quick look at Denver’s Logan School
At its core, Logan is all about whole education. The school’s approach is to engage students through their own, self-identified interests and passions.
Compositive: At Bricolage, nurturing heart through empathy and identity
At Bricolage no one shies away from honest talk about race, privilege, and inequities. Kids who attend Bricolage will not graduate believing the world is colorblind.
At Bricolage, academics are the driver
Allowing children to fail is an important aspect of the innovation class at Bricolage Academy.