by QPS | Sep 23, 2019 | Community building, Parenting, School News, Social Emotional Learning
Our recent Parent Orientation was an update for “stakeholders” (parents) about what the Staff of QPS thought about over the summer. We did not changed our curriculum or how we implement it, though we did make some tweaks to our systems and...
by QPS | Sep 14, 2018 | Parenting, Personalized Learning, Practice, Problem Solving, School Events, School News
Last night was our annual Parent Orientation. Having done this for almost 10 years, it may surprise some readers that we put a large, critical eye on it every year, as if it’s our first time. Just as we teach our students to ask and answer questions (and to...
by QPS | Jul 25, 2018 | Educational Technology, Media, Parenting, School News
On Friday, 7/20, Midday on WNYC hosted an interesting conversation and call-in show about kids and screen time. The guests were: Angela Santomero, co-creator of Blues Clues, Super Why!, Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, and other children’s programs designed to...
by QPS | Apr 16, 2018 | Educational Technology, Media, Parenting, School News, Technology in Education and Personalized Learning
No parent social gathering is complete without someone raising the topic of their kids and digital technology, a conversation rife with anxiety-filled confessions of confusion and genuine helplessness. The conversations are also vague, because the wider discussion of...
