Month: August 2016

Making It Stick: How one Homeschool Program incorporates difficult learning in the classroom

Make It Stick Part 2–The Good News about Testing

My last post on “Make It Stick,“ covered “desirable difficulties” created by spaced, interleaved, and varied practice to help the brain hold on to new information.  One problem the authors noted over and over among students was a disconnect between what they thought they knew and their actual retention of new material. Their recommended remedy…

String Lake with Tetons in background

Musings from Mrs. D

We recently visited the Grand Tetons with our extended family. As we enjoyed the beauty there, the Lord impressed some things on my mind that I would like to share with you. Looking at String Lake (at the foot of Mount Moran in the Grand Tetons) “So teach us to number our days that we…

John 3:16

For God loved the world in this way: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.