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It all adds up

Math tutoring is a wise investment, as it helps develop skills down the line   Ioana Teodorescu started tutoring in math seven years ago. Her start in tutoring was somewhat serendipitous. An architect and a professor in interior design at […]

Planning for private school

Like any investment, private school takes research and financial planning   Sending your child to a private school is an important decision. It’s an investment in your child’s future that might take financial planning, says Turnbull School director Gareth Reid. […]

Keep on truckin’

Summer doesn’t mean putting learning on hold                                                      When the final class bell rings, how do you convince your kids not to shelve their schoolbooks for the summer? “Make it fun,” says Madghis Madi, manager of Scholars in Barrhaven and […]

Jon Willing graduated from Grand River Collegiate Institute in Kitchener in 1997. Photo Courtesy Jon Willing

Back in the day

Columnist Jon Willing notes major differences between current school protocols and the ones he experienced as a student   With the arrival of a new school year, it has struck me that it’s been almost 25 years since I graduated […]

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I’m with them

Membership in organizations and clubs often teach kids just as much as official school activities     When we think about learning, we may think about classrooms. But just as much of the childhood learning experience happens outside those four […]