HELP! I don’t understand 6th grade math!
Confession: I’m a college graduate, I’ve worked at an investment company in a high rise and wore a suit, I’ve worked from home having started my own business, I’ve run a retail store and I still get stuck on math.
Honestly, I have forgotten, well maybe misplaced, many if the [...]

Our school’s PTA asked me this fall if I’d be interested in running a science club after school. As if I didn’t have enough on my plate, I agreed.
After tossing around the best way to have a science club, we decided to start with a Halloween science club. One that would meet one time in [...]

What’s scarier? Ghoulish Halloween masks or getting ready for a conference with your child’s teacher? Well, I suppose it depends on your child and how he or she is behaving in class. And it depends upon your relationship with your child’s teacher, and whether you see eye-to-eye.
Not to sound like a braggart, but my [...]

Want to make a difference in the lives of Colorado children but are unsure how to do it? The Children’s Hospital Colorado has some fantastic introductory advocacy events that will help.
ADVOCACY WORKSHOP – Hear from Children’s Colorado’s government affairs team and real moms who are speaking out on the issues they care about. They’ll share [...]

When I was a kid (yes, it begins that way), I went to school in a small town with 20 people in an elementary school of about 100 students, and then our elementary combined with the other elementary school in the next town for middle and high school, and my graduating class was composed of [...]

A former Denver Public Schools lunch director told a group of journalists and school advocates Wednesday that his district likely would cut free-meal programs for poor schools if new nutrition standards take effect that require schools to serve more fruits and vegetables.
The panel discussion was sponsored by the National Potato Council, which represents potato farmers [...]

In the beginning, there was Monte Vista On-Line Academy. Its state-assigned “pilot project” status signaled its daring, and its 13 students, wired up and logged on, were spared hours of bumping along rugged San Luis Valley roads to and from brick-and-mortar schools.
Now, no longer provisional or experimental, and championed by a strange-bedfellows mix of parents, [...]

This November, Colorado voters will have the chance to stop additional cuts to Colorado’s schools and to start reinvesting in our kids. Proposition 103 is a simple proposal that offers a five-year time out from school cuts by going back to the sales and income tax rates that Colorado had throughout the 1990s. All [...]

Last year, I wrote about the kindergarten dilemma. Mainly, whether I should enroll my son on time or hold him back a year so he would be one of the oldest vs. youngest in class. It was one of our most highly-debated posts ever.
In the end, I enrolled him.
I have not regretted my decision. [...]

I’ve always been a big fan of Target so when a Super Target was built 2 minutes from our house, my husband braced himself for the repercussions.
My bank account will confirm there were many.
But my Target spending is being put to good use. The corporation donates five percent of its income (that’s more than [...]