Is It Time for a Tutor?
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To find a tutor, consider: grade level curriculum, organizational skills, attentiveness, study habits and life activities
Academy: A Positive Note to End the Year
Thank you to our Academy community for your resilience during these difficult times
A Guide to Online Friendships
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Guest post by CDB alumni Calder Hansen discusses how to navigate online friendships
A Spyglass Sit-In
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Reece Aguilar, the Assistant Debate Coach for USC, taught workshop at IEA about public speaking and the art of Speech and Debate
Virtual Learning Lab: Creative Problem Solving II – Changing Your Point of View
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2023 CDB Scholar Arul Kolla continues the series of videos about creative problem solving by talking about changing your point of view
Virtual Learning Lab: Mathematical Poetry – Topology
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Cassidy Kao introduces the basic concept of topology, creating a three line transforming poem, and Mobius Strips
Virtual Learning Lab: GOVLEARN – Presidential Elections, The Electoral College and More
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In November 2020, Election Day will arrive, and American voters will decide who to elect as President of the United States, but how does the process truly work?
Online Learning for Gifted Students: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
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While many may look at online learning as a recent innovation, the roots of distance learning in the U.S. run deep