Karyn Lewis

You don't need to be a mathematician to help kids see math in the world--from counting passing cars to spotting circles and triangles on a playground, math is everywhere for young children. Along those lines, just as they can support early literacy by reading to their kids from a young age, families can play an important role in teaching their children math by helping children see math all around them. A new video from REL Northwest describes two strategies, based on the IES practice gu...

In an ideal world, everyone's physical well-being would start strong and then be on a continuous upward trajectory, only getting better over time. Unfortunately, that is rarely the case. The health of most people tends to fluctuate from year to year, month to month, or even week to week. This is true even for people who take care of themselves; we all get sick or injured from time to time. The same goes for our social and emotional well-being, which is often referred to as social and e...