Suki Wessling: writer, teacher, radio host

Category: Education

  • Forging new teacher relationships for your twice-exceptional child

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    Twice-exceptional children, who are both intellectually gifted and learning disabled, face a tough challenge at school. Parents can work with teachers in a variety of ways to help support their 2e students.

  • Rethinking the education problem

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    Judging from the mainstream education news you read, the US is in big trouble. Our students are falling behind. Little countries like Finland and Singapore are going to take over the world with their fantastically well-educated populations. Our public schools are so broken, we should pay corporations and churches to educate our youth instead. If…

  • Homeschooling Mom’s Bill of Rights

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    First, my disclaimer: There are some fathers who are the primary homeschooling parent, but this piece specifically addresses a “mom thing.” As women, many of us have been socialized to feel that it’s our job to take care of everyone else to the detriment of our own health and happiness. Homeschooling dads, please feel free…

  • Talk to your kids

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    When my children were small, we were fortunate that our lives intersected briefly with a wonderful woman who was temporarily working as a babysitter. She was a refugee and had gone from being a respected professional in her native tongue to a naive beginner in America. As such, she had the unusual experience of being…

  • A question of scale

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    This year my son and I decided to use a new and unusual history curriculum in our homeschool. The Big History Project is an attempt to reshape history to be meaningful to kids in the age of information. Rather than focusing just on the wars and conquests of the past, this curriculum attempts to help…