The lunar eclipse this Friday has me thinking about the best places to get science news, activities and events for our students.

Celebrating Women's History Month this year at Kalexedy I decided to make it my mission to connect my students' personal family histories...

If there's a holiday (Alien Abduction Day, anyone?), we're looking forward to celebrating it. We have fun as a learning community

"I found a tooth!" isn't something you'd expect a sixth grader exclaim in your classroom and be excited about, but this week...

From July 7-11th, 2025 our center will be transformed into an engineering challenge lab using all things cardboard, paper, wires, glue...

Our interns are here on Fridays, and those correspond with the days that our enrichments are led by students – which gives them so many

It’s easy to set resolutions and even easier to quickly abandon them, but one of the ways we are approaching the New Year at Kalexedy

While we don’t have a school bus or need to plan field trips a year in advance, we can nimbly choose our field trips based on interest

As the parent and teacher of voracious readers, I am so saddened by the disservice that students (many of whom are now adults and parents

6:00am Wake-Up I wake up and get ready for my day – waking up my two daughters who will join me today at Kalexedy. They are with me three...

I sat down to write this post so that you’ll know more about me, but being a teacher I am naturally more inclined to celebrate the

Most modern homeschoolers know that the “home” part of that title is a misnomer. U.S. parents are facing a simultaneous increase in remote

I planned a four week series, one lesson a week of a bonafide “Writers’ Workshop” series where we all meet in our collaborative space

We have a multi-age classroom at our learning center and as a result have a large variety of books that our students are interested in readi

This is a great elementary or middle grade STEAM activity for homeschoolers or a classroom -- we did it this month with our students...

What is most attractive about working here? The most attractive thing about working at Kalexedy Learning Center is that all of my favorite

My teacher friends all technically have single-age classrooms but can tell you that within each classroom the social and academic abilities

When our family began our homeschooling journey in 2021 we had a first grader who had never attended in-person school, instead she ...

I just had the best first day of school of my career.  My first  first day of school as a teacher was as a public high school math...