Are your kids ready for the 2024–25 school year? Or if it’s started already, how are they adjusting to new routines and challenges? School success isn’t just about mastering reading, writing, and STEM topics: there’s also personal time management, healthy…
As families across the country begin a new school year, thoughts turn to new routines—and new hassles. Adjusting wake-up hours. Getting everyone from bed to bus. Scheduling extracurricular activities. Briefing new teachers on accommodation and health needs. If you need…
By the time this article is posted, most schools in the U.S. will have reopened for the 2023–24 school year. But even if your kids have been back in class for two or three weeks, chances are it still feels…
What are your family’s “learning goals” for the 2023–24 school year? Your children’s school district and board of education will have official standards for academic skills that students are expected to master. (For Texas residents, these are in the TEA…
If school has started and there are still unchecked items on your getting-ready list, that’s not a disaster—assuming your priorities were in order. You may have a problem, however, if you spent too much “Priority A” time on what should…
As the 2023–24 school year begins—with the inevitable crowds and stresses of the season—these tips will help your children stay healthy for its challenges. Keep a couple of good health apps on your child’s device. These include coping tools for…
It’s August. Are your kids ready for school yet? Depending on where they’re enrolled, the actual first day of school may be as early as August 7 or as late as September 5. But however long you have to prepare,…
As teachers and therapists prepare for the new school year many are using mobile device apps like Pinterest to get ideas for their classroom, searching for organization apps such as Evernote, and looking for ways to increase communication with parents using…
BridgingApps just published the following BridgingApps Reviewed App on the site: Toca Life: School is a fun early learning app that helps develop pre-reading, language and fine motor skills. The engaging app also encourages creativity, problem solving and more. One…
BridgingApps just published the following BridgingApps Reviewed App on the site: My PlayHome School expands the PlayHome world into the classroom. Explore the school and play at being teacher, experiment in the science room, take lunch in the cafeteria or even…
