Cara Thorpe, founder and CEO of Yellow Parachute Learning Partners, is here again with answers about personalized learning. Learn about setting aside our own experiences with school and asking a question that will help students get what they need to [...]
Cara Thorpe, founder and CEO of Yellow Parachute Learning Partners, is here with answers about personalized learning – an angst-filled topic for teachers and parents alike, given time constraints all around. How much is "too much" support? Shouldn't my kids [...]
Do you argue about the same school-related problems every evening? See tears or anger that you don’t understand? Feel like you have to ride your kids’ coattails to get them to try? Or that you’re always on edge about school? [...]
I remember when my kids took their first steps. They first learned to stand on two feet, then, slowly, how to put one unsteady foot in front of the other. When they fell, we cheered. We didn’t say, next time [...]
To my fellow parents, I’m about to save you from your own expectations about summer learning. At this point in May, summer feels like that land of promise and endless possibility. We plan on learning from every mistake from past [...]
And How YP Is Cleaning Them Up When I mention “personalized learning,” to my ACT students eyes roll, jaws clench, gum snaps, arms cross, shoulders shrug. Why such bummer reactions to a term I believe can revolutionize education? Because “personalized [...]
“There’s nothing really that great about being cool. Cool is, by definition, self-protection.” - Brené Brown I heard it again this week: “My teacher hates me.” This, from a student who I look forward to seeing each week, who asks [...]
When our self-images get warped, we need relationships—the vision and kindness of caring friends and mentors—to correct them. I’ve found some incredible interventions to combat this broken-lens-view in my own adult life and can’t wait to share them with you.* [...]
You may recall our friend and professional organizer Suzanne van Dyck from our post on letting go of the clutter in your life. Suzanne has also been a proud Yellow Parachute parent since 2009, turning to YP’s ACT tutoring for [...]
We spend a great deal of time telling you the how and why or our teaching, what inspires us, and how we hope to inspire our students. Now, we’d like to take a few minutes to talk about the range [...]
