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 …
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 …
Is there anything that brings us together more than food? No matter what country or city you are in, we can all connect over a good home cooked meal. Nicholas Blandford, a teacher at O.O.Y. Slavejko Arsov in Stip, Macedonia, shares one of the countries great recipes with us- Ajvar! Ajvar is made from bell …
Remember the first time you learned about another culture than your own? Perhaps it was in the setting of your classroom, in a local restaurant or maybe even on a family vacation. No matter how you discovered this culture, you may quickly start feeling somewhat of an attachment to that culture or as we like to …
With so many classes connecting on Belouga daily, it can be easy to forget that there are numerous cultural differences between countries around the world. Here’s a great infographic on how your friends overseas spend their school year. Infographic provided by Visualistan (@visualistan).
The following is a guest post from Bronwyn Joyce (@JoyceBronwyn). Today my students were separated from me as they participated in a transition morning. Seeing what it will be like in Grade 5 and Grade 4 ready for 2017. After an outstanding year of learning about the world they returned from Transition asking about what their …
The following is a guest post from Marialice and Curran (The @CurranCentral Team). Over the holiday vacation we joined #EdCampVoice on Voxer and were inspired to create the DigCitKids January Challenge around EMPATHY based around Dr. Michelle Borba’s book, UnSelfie: Why Empathetic Kids Succeed in Our All-About-Me World. In December, we were inspired by the …