Category: Chanhassen

Stanford Engineer Talks K-12

The summer is always a slow time for school information. As result, we wanted to share what are some of the issues being talked about outside of are normal area of discussion. Linked is an article and discussion that we found interesting on K-12 education and innovation.

Tuesday July 27th, 2010 in ACT, Bloomington, Budget, Chanhassen, Chaska, Eden Prairie, Edina, Education, English, Jefferson, Learning, MN, Minnesota, Minnetonka, SAT, college, high school, math, schools, science, standardized testing, tutor, tutoring | 1 Comment »

Multi-Sensory Approach, Why It Works Best

At WHIZard Academy, we use a multi-sensory approach to learning. This method has a long history of research going back to 1943 that demonstrates that multi-sensory learning, works and it works very well. Why do we use this approach, because it works and because it is the natural way in which people learn. Imagine your [...]

Tuesday July 13th, 2010 in ACT, Bloomington, Budget, Chanhassen, Chaska, Eden Prairie, Edina, Education, English, Jefferson, Learning, MN, Minnesota, Minnetonka, SAT, college, high school, math, schools, science, standardized testing, tutor, tutoring | No Comments »

The Quiet Days of Summer are the Best Study Time

This time of year, many kids are busy enjoying not being in school. But schools don’t rest during the summer, case in point, our local school district where our office is located, is busy in the middle of a debate about how to redraw the schools lines. K-5 or K-6, those are big changes if [...]

Tuesday July 6th, 2010 in ACT, Bloomington, Budget, Chanhassen, Chaska, Eden Prairie, Edina, Education, English, Jefferson, Learning, MN, Minnesota, Minnetonka, SAT, college, high school, math, schools, science, standardized testing, tutor, tutoring | No Comments »

Part 5, A Parent’s Guide to College

This is the last part in our series. We hope you enjoyed them all. If you missed any parts, check out the old clips posted here over the last month or visit our channel on youtube.

Tuesday June 15th, 2010 in ACT, Bloomington, Budget, Chanhassen, Chaska, Eden Prairie, Edina, Education, English, Jefferson, Learning, MN, Minnesota, Minnetonka, SAT, college, high school, math, schools, science, standardized testing, tutor, tutoring | No Comments »

Part 4 of, A Parents Guide to College

We continue in our series, as we discuss what parents need to know for the college experience. Next week will be the last in this series.

Tuesday June 8th, 2010 in ACT, Bloomington, Budget, Chanhassen, Chaska, Eden Prairie, Edina, Education, English, Jefferson, Learning, MN, Minnesota, Minnetonka, SAT, college, high school, math, schools, science, standardized testing, tutor, tutoring | 1 Comment »

Part 3 of a Parent’s Guide to College

Part 3 in our series is here. We move on to new topics such as surprises you may find in the college process.

Tuesday June 1st, 2010 in ACT, Bloomington, Budget, Chanhassen, Chaska, Eden Prairie, Edina, Education, English, Jefferson, Learning, MN, Minnesota, Minnetonka, SAT, college, high school, math, schools, science, standardized testing, tutor, tutoring | 1 Comment »

Part 2 of our Interview, a Parents Guide to College

Our latest Tuesday Tip is part two of our interview with Cynthia Kazior. This week, we continue the discussion about her perspective of the college preparation process from the parent’s perspective.

Tuesday May 25th, 2010 in ACT, Budget, Chanhassen, Chaska, Eden Prairie, Edina, Education, English, Jefferson, Learning, MN, Minnesota, Minnetonka, SAT, college, high school, math, schools, science, standardized testing, tutor, tutoring | No Comments »

A Parent Talks about the College Experience

Cynthia Kazior is your typical parent with college students. We decided to talk to her about her experience sending her kids to college. In this part of the series we talk about the application process and the ins and outs of the process and some of the surprises parents face.

Tuesday May 18th, 2010 in ACT, Bloomington, Budget, Chanhassen, Chaska, Eden Prairie, Edina, Education, English, Jefferson, Learning, MN, Minnesota, Minnetonka, SAT, college, high school, math, schools, science, standardized testing, tutor, tutoring | No Comments »

Graduation in Minnesota

This week starts off a week of college graduations here in Minnesota. Some of us will be heading out this week to colleges around the state to attend as guest, graduation ceremonies. Instead of our weekly video, we would like to wish a happy graduation to all graduates during this year’s graduation season.

Tuesday May 11th, 2010 in ACT, Bloomington, Budget, Chanhassen, Chaska, Eden Prairie, Edina, Education, English, Jefferson, Learning, MN, Minnesota, Minnetonka, SAT, college, high school, math, schools, science, standardized testing, tutor, tutoring | No Comments »

Math and You

Math always seems to get a bad rep as being hard or difficult. It can be easy and enjoyable. One trick is to really know where you stand with math and what you wish to gain from it. Check out our latest video on math at Whizard Academy.

Tuesday May 4th, 2010 in ACT, Bloomington, Budget, Chanhassen, Chaska, Eden Prairie, Edina, Education, English, Jefferson, Learning, MN, Minnesota, Minnetonka, college, high school, math, schools, science, standardized testing, tutor, tutoring | No Comments »