In the first blog of this series, I mentioned that stepping up and advocating for our children provides a model for them of how to resolve problems. Ultimately, we want …
Being Your Child’s Advocate – Part 5: Everybody has a boss
In any large system like education, there are many layers of management, oversight, and accountability. In some ways, these layers can create burdens and obstacles to progress; but in other …
Being Your Child’s Advocate – Part 4: Make sure you know these seven truths
Often, I speak with parents who feel like they have no choices about their child’s education or that the school is doing something to their child instead of engaging in …
Being Your Child’s Advocate – Part 3: Don’t be afraid to lead
In the last blog post, I talked about building a positive working relationship between home and school [https://www.campkodiak.com/being-your-childs-advocate-2/]. Today I’m going to talk about the parent taking the lead in …
Being Your Child’s Advocate – Part 2: Becoming the right kind of dance partner
In the last post I talked about good advocacy being a bit like a dance. For any dance to work, the partners need to trust each other and coordinate their efforts …
Being Your Child’s Advocate – Part 1
Our children’s school lives seem to happen in a universe that is very separate from us. The social organization of having so many children together with relatively few adults is …
Kids Need More Than Just Being Back In School
Camp Kodiak has always been good at boosting up kids who felt let down by the social and academic challenges of school. These were the kids who didn’t get invited …
Easing the Switch from Summer to School
Getting your child ready to go back to school at the end of the summer can be challenging at the best of times. And, after months of online learning, this …
Vlog: Find Time To Snuggle Up & Read
Reading aloud to children is an important part of their language development, even after they have learned to read. This is especially true for children with reading difficulties. So even …
Vlog: Prompts
Shari explores prompts – cues that are given to learners who are trying to master a new concept. She outlines four types of prompts – physical prompts, modelling, verbal prompts …