Virtual Online Classes Back to School Plan 2020-2021
Dear Parents & Guardians, We are excited to share our plan for Virtual Online Classes in addition to our In-Person Onsite classes. Please see Kim Langen’s video message in which she introduces and explains our elite online course offerings for 2020-21. Please click on any link below to view a specific topic of interest in […]
Spirit of Math Back to School Plan 2020-2021
Dear Parents & Guardians, Please watch Kim Langen’s video message in which she explains in detail how we are rolling out our In-Person, Onsite classes in the coming school year starting the week of Aug 30th, 2020. We will be making another announcement in a few days about the online options that will available to […]
A Sizzling Summer is Here! What are you doing to keep, or bring up your child to the standards set before COVID-19?
Summer is here, which in a regular year, means two or three months of holidays. That’s 1/6 of the year. This past school year has been exceptional as students have lost three months of learning due to the spread of COVID-19, plus they have an additional two months of vacation time. That is almost ½ […]
Lessons Learned – Education
Spirit of Math is an after-school school for high performing students. Our focus is to introduce higher level thinking and challenges for high performing students. The classes focus on problem solving, collaborative group work, intense discussions, presentations and lots of skill-development practice. This was accomplished well in an environment consisting of in-person classes combined with […]
Combing Technology to Create an Amplified Effect
Being able to create an engaging learning environment while producing high level reasoning in an in-person classroom situation is a challenge and creating the same effect in a virtual classroom is even more of a challenge. For Spirit of Math, creating an online experience that would produce the same experience and output wasn’t a choice: […]
A Massive Shift from In-Person Learning to Online: 11,000 students in Two Weeks. How did we do it?
This past February with the incoming Covid-19 virus we realized early that we would have to do some online learning for certain centres, so we looked at the small one-class pilot that we were running from Canada for bright students in Pakistan to see what we could do. Then, at the beginning of March, we […]
A new understanding of how to live in this world: The effects of Covid19 on our children’s understandings.
Children and youth look to adults in their lives for certainty and understanding. Our kids today are facing a world that has never existed before, dealing with the massive and collective impact that one virus has made. They are living through a time where everyday life has turned upside-down and is very different than anything […]
Helping Your Children Manage Stress Brought about by Covid19
During this time most families are feeling a unique type of stress that is intensified by a war-like attack against something difficult to understand, and invisible to see. In many families one or both income earners (if there were two), have had their jobs affected permanently or temporarily. In other cases, if they owned a […]
Creating a New Norm
Changing our lives to suit what people are stating as the “new norm” has influenced our work, and our family lives. When speaking to a couple of mothers during the first week of the Covid-19 isolation time, they were stating that they didn’t mind their kids watching movies all day, or just hanging out, doing […]
Creating Certainty in Times of Change
“The kids were having a hard time in this new normal not seeing their friends and not attending their usual activities. Then Spirit of Math comes right back on schedule and on time. You could see the joy in all the classes, they were happy to see their friends and teachers. They were also happy […]