The Top Five Questions to Ask Admissions
Let’s be honest, when it comes to finding the right academic fit for your child, pretty brochures, lofty language and bland statistics simply do not give the full picture. Each student is an individual and should be treated as such. The task of preparing a child for college may seem overwhelming to parents, particularly those seeking the right questions to ask when speaking to the admissions office.
At Evansville Day School, the music instructors believe that music is more than just sound and lyrics, music is interdisciplinary and multi-faceted. Read the article below which encompasses the true feelings of Marilyn Lankford, Dona Hayden, and Steve Greenwell, the gifted music instructors at EDS.
“What matters most in a child's development is not how much information we can stuff into her brain in the first few years. What matters, instead, is whether we are able to help her develop a very different set of qualities, a list that includes persistence, self-control, curiosity, conscientiousness, grit and self-confidence.”
- How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character by Paul Tough
Learning how to read can be exciting and rewarding. Road signs, menus, magazines, and so many other things that you have been seeing for years start to make sense and actually tell you something!
It’s an experience familiar to everyone. You are trying really hard to concentrate on the task at hand and then, boom, your thought process is rudely interrupted by those pesky distractions of the day. What am I going to fix for dinner? Is that a siren I hear? I really should have worn another shirt today. How long before the bell rings?
Each year parents across the US spend millions of dollars hiring tutors for their children. It is a frequent topic of conversation when parents gather at school and play dates, and one that is asked often of teachers and administrators. Prior to committing the time and financial resources to tutoring, the underlying needs should be considered carefully and thoughtfully.
The best schools think backwards. They intentionally and thoughtfully paint a portrait of a graduate and build around that vision in programming, technology, staffing, and fostering of community.
