The indigenous Miwok people of California’s Marin and Southern Sonoma Counties left adobe structures you can still see at Olompali State Historic Park. Ancestral Puebloans of Chaco Canyon in New Mexico built magnificent brick buildings – huge kivas and structures believed to have contained as many as 600 rooms — still standing after many hundreds […]
Beloved by local families for more than three decades, the Bay Area Discovery Museum (BADM) in Sausalito welcomes more than 350,000 guests a year. The museum’s spectacular Fort Baker setting in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge, is a definite perk. But the real draw here are […]
Create good home environments where children can flourish, understand their strengths and view mistakes as gifts from which to learn. These are just a few of the takeaways from a recent webinar featuring a panel of child education and behavior experts. Parenting: Make the Most of Your Child’s Education, presented by Make It Better Media […]
Are you seeking to improve your skills as a nonprofit board member? Want to better understand board governance or strategize a plan for your organization’s future? Are you wondering how your nonprofit can make meaningful and lasting change with regards to diversity, equity and inclusion? Nonprofit leaders and volunteers alike are encouraged to tap into […]
A web of narrow pathways winds up from Rodeo beach, through pink ice plant blooms and over rugged, sandy outcroppings, to hilltops with 360-degree views of the San Francisco skyline, velvety green cliffs, and a royal blue sky arching over the wild ocean below. The Marin Headlands offer visitors a front row seat to the […]
September is the best month of the year for people who love reboots, a time when we can all contemplate how to take on the next year with new folders, pencils and perhaps a new backpack, metaphorically, of course. And for parents everywhere, of course, it’s game time. For those of you deciding where to […]
It’s been a crazy time for education. Here’s one thing we can make easy for you — here are a few of the best local schools to pick from. For the complete listing of top private schools, check out our 2021 Private School Guide. St. John’s Northwestern Academies Accountability. Integrity. Respect Located just two hours from […]
The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center is hosting a groundbreaking new exhibit, Rise Up: Stonewall and the LGBTQ Rights Movement, which explores the struggle for LGBTQ rights over the past 50-plus years. The show, which begins on Oct. 17 and runs through May 8, is very much in keeping with the mission of the […]
We asked some of Chicago’s best private schools to tell us what they offer and how they can help your kids learn. Here’s what they had to say: North Shore Country Day What is your school’s academic philosophy? When we were founded in 1919, North Shore Country Day was the visionary answer to a fundamental […]
Entering kindergarten is a big adjustment, with longer school days, first-time bus rides, meeting new friends and so much more. Parents and teachers have plenty of suggestions for the little ones tackling all those milestones, but we wanted to talk to some real experts: first graders! We asked new first graders from some Chicago and […]
