This year I began my education activism in earnest. My tipping point was when my youngest daughter’s school defended their worksheet-based, everyone does the same thing, curriculum. After being rebuffed by the school, I used my blog to express my feelings. And, I’ll tell you – that got their attention, even though that was not [...]

Children are naturals when it comes to celebrating. They innately laugh, play and have fun – I find it inspiring! So, with each passing holiday, I take part in the youthful joy and make my best attempt at teaching traditions of our culture…when I can, I explore what others do and make it a cross-cultural [...]

Two of the harshest food critics I know live in my home and are both under the age of 8. It’s a daily struggle to sneak a morsel of something resembling health into their diet and often results in a complete surrender by dinner time. Yet, these two, picky eaters are absolutely thrilled to cast their [...]

Once a week, for at least an hour, middle school students at two Denver public schools are working in groups to try a new way of reading.
“I have a clunk,” Martin Luther King Jr. Early College seventh-grader Brian Estrada told his group as they read a science passage. “Gnarled limbs. I re-read the sentence. It [...]

Don’t miss these five low-cost (and easy) ideas for Easter Activities for preschoolers that you can fit into your busy schedule and encourage the fun of the season with your little ones.

Saturday. The Children’s Museum of Denver will be hoppin’ for the Bunny Trail EggVenture, the museum’s annual spring festival. The fun starts on the museum plaza with music and games from Radio Disney—ride Vern’s Mini Train and pet cute animals from the Urban Farm at Stapleton, too. A springtime wonderland awaits inside the building: Storytime [...]

Sometimes numbers are the story, and in the case of the new dining hall addition at Kent Denver School, the numbers are impressive: landfill waste down 90 percent, standard energy costs down 42 percent, leafy vegetable consumption up 500 percent.
But here’s the bigger news: Working with local architects Semple Brown Design, the school has added [...]

Dear Mama Drama:
My nine- year-old daughter takes an excessive amount of time to do her homework every day. If she would just do the work, she would be done in thirty minutes to an hour. Instead, she whines, complains, cries, fights, distracts herself, etc., for hours on end. By the time she is done we [...]

So want to celebrate Earth Day with your kids in a fun, interesting, cheap way that might just save the planet? 
Well, let’s head on over to the bus stop…

One person switching to public transit for just one day can reduce daily carbon emissions by 20 pounds – over a year that’s more than 4,800 pounds. [...]

Sunday. Warm up those pipes—Opera Colorado is coming to the Children’s Museum of Denver. Get a sneak preview of the opera’s upcoming production of “La Cenerentola”, Rossini’s Cinderella tale, through opera shorts and meet-and-greets with performers. Try on real costumes, get your face painted and even take an Italian lesson to get in the spirit. [...]