by Tim Seldin | Jul 8, 2019 | Blog
by Jackie Mader When schools slap the ‘Montessori’ name on their buildings, parents often don’t know what they’re getting. Austin, Texas — Mallory Foster was relieved when she, her husband and her stepson’s mother agreed that a local Montessori...
by Tim Seldin | Jul 8, 2019 | Blog
by Tim Seldin Your Child’s Brain – Executive Function Skills Executive Function skills are the mental processes that enable us to solve problems, plan, focus attention, remember instructions, organize, and complete multiple tasks successfully. Brain...
by Tim Seldin | Jul 8, 2019 | Blog
“Education should be a Journey, Not a Race.” We believe that the rhetoric about education, which is most often focused on words like rigorous, challenging, and competitive, misses several fundamental truths about children and education. The...
by Tim Seldin | Jul 8, 2019 | Blog
John Long is the Headmaster Emeritus of The Post Oak School, in Houston, Texas. He is an old friend. It was her second visit in a week. Mrs. Jones described her son as kind and gentle, a truly sweet child, but retiring, even cautious. “Would Post Oak admit him as a...
by Tim Seldin | Jun 8, 2019 | Blog
I graduated from NewGate last June (The NewGate School’s Class of 2018) and continued my study of mathematics at New College here in Sarasota (Florida, USA). When I came back to visit the school during my freshman year, Tim and the teachers asked me how I was...
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