This week marks the final days of the 2019-2020 school year. The year has left a huge question mark hanging over the education community, and truly our society as a whole, asking the question “what does the future of education look like?”. To start, we can all acknowledge that 2020 is the year that will …
Lone hotel room in middle of Waco, Texas. Traveling from Dallas to Austin between games as a hockey scout. 2pm in the afternoon, bright sunny day, but it was the darkest day and hotel room I can ever remember. “He is so mental!” “He is crazy!” When I was growing up, being “mental” was a …
I have an anxious brain. I was born with an anxious brain. For as long as I can remember my brain worked a little differently than other people who weren’t blessed with thinking in layers; an abundanceof creativity and empathy and an innate ability to recognize and understand subtle nuances. When I was a child… …
The #SameHere program provides students, teachers, administrators and parents with a network of resources, live video sessions and community connections to help support their own mental health. New York, New York, May 1, 2020- In celebration of Mental Health Awareness Month, Belouga and We’re All A Little Crazy have organized a month-long program, starting, May …
The current global climate has forced a majority of the world to practice social distancing; leaving administrators, teachers and parents scouring the internet to find engaging solutions to provide continuity of education for their students and children. And as if transitioning to a completely new way of teaching is not a struggle enough, many teachers …
Every classroom and every student has different learning needs and interests. With that being said, why are traditional learning materials such as textbooks and worksheets so cookiecutter? At Belouga, our mission is to create a personalized learning experience for each and every K-12 learner worldwide. With more access to content than ever before, learners need …
The work-life of the Belouga team has always been digital. Our team lives all over the world, and we use technology for everything we do. In so many words, we practice what we preach! But that’s not how most businesses and schools operate. With the recent outbreak of Covid-19 around the world, however, schools have …
In an attempt to match Marjorie’s “math-madness,” this is how I would express Marjorie’s Series, Behind the Brackets as a mathematical equation: Basketball in March + Multidisciplinary Approach to Subject [Math] x Quick Response to Current Event = [Math] Magic Whether that computes with you or you need to check the back of the book, …
Like most educators swimming on Belouga, I’ll never forget the first time I met, Drew Crismon. It was a balmy February morning in St. Louis, Missouri at EdCampSTL where I was facilitating a session on Curiosity-Based Learning. Drew wasn’t just raising his hand, he was raising his hand like his pants were lit every time …
As a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, whenever I hear the term, “multi-level class,” my brain does one of those faulty autocorrects turning “level” into “resource.” For starters, schools in the country where I served were so under resourced, it was difficult to even determine levels. I was told my classes were grouped into differing levels …