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How Schools Can Accommodate Different Learning Styles

Authored By
George Higgins, Headmaster

Any seasoned educator will tell you that teachers face many different learning styles in the classroom.  Students vary widely, even when the classrooms are small.  Accommodating different learning styles is a challenge all schools face, but there are adjustments that can be made to help.

What does a typical Beekman student look like?

Authored By
Maren Holmen, Director, The Tutoring School

What does a typical Beekman student look like?

I am asked this question all of the time in interviews and conversations with people curious about our school.  This is what I tell them.  

There is no “typical” Beekman student.  We have a wide variety of students, including:

What is Personalized Learning and Why Can’t All Schools Offer It?

Authored By
George Higgins, Headmaster

More schools are using the term personalized learning on their promotional materials so, naturally, this trending buzzword in education has piqued parents’ interest.  What is personalized learning?  And, if it’s such a good thing, why can’t all schools offer it?

Personalized Learning: What We Can Learn from the One-Room Schoolhouse

Authored By
Maren Holmen, Director of The Tutoring School

Imagine this: a one-room schoolhouse, filled with students of all ages.  I’m sure you probably have a picture in your mind that is similar to a scene out of “Little House on the Prairie”—and a sense that this is an antiquated and out-dated mode of education.  The concept of one teacher working wi

When Should You Consider One-On-One Education?

Authored By
Maren Holmen, Director of The Tutoring School

The concept of personalized learning is a major movement in education right now—largely discussing treating students as individual learners, not as one big herd to move along the same path at the same rate at the same time.  This idea is not new, but with the aid of new technology, it is becoming

You’re a Unique Person; We’re a Unique School!

Authored By
George Higgins, Headmaster

Do you ever feel like you just don’t fit in at your school?  Mean kids, exclusive cliques, lunchroom gossip, bullying in the halls, unfriendly teachers, no one listens to you and no one cares?  Most teenagers feel that way at one time or another, but when the atmosphere at school