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 […]
For more than 100 years, the Children’s Home & Aid Woman’s Board has worked diligently to raise funds to help Illinois children and families thrive. This past year, Covid-19 disrupted everyone’s lives, including Children’s Home & Aid’s earliest learners. Children’s Home & Aid is a leading child and family service agency in Illinois. They help […]
Imagine being the parent of a high schooler, watching your child struggle to adapt, and even though the school is trying to communicate the issues, you can’t understand them because you don’t speak the language. Add to that navigating the Covid-19 pandemic, when language barriers mean you don’t fully understand the public health guidelines or […]
Rebecca Wunderlich, born and raised in Mill Valley, is an eco-warrior doing all she can to spread the word about the importance of environmental consciousness. She attributes one of her childhood teachers, Mrs. Terwilliger, the belated and beloved Mill Valley environmental teacher, remembered by many locals for her inspirational ways of sharing and educating children […]
The power of sports in building confidence and success pathways is a privilege that all of the youth in our community should be able to experience, including those in our neighboring community of Marin City. The skills youth learn on the fields, on the courts, on the track, in the pools, and on their boards, […]
It was a senior year like no other and this year’s North Shore valedictorians and commencement speakers shared a few of their hopes, future plans and secrets for success with Better. Zara AnwarNew Trier High School Zara Anwar lives in Winnetka and will attend Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. She plans to study cognitive sciences with […]
In a wide-ranging Fireside Chat with Better, legendary psychologist and Harvard Graduate School Of Education professor Howard Gardner discussed how education around the world evolved in response to his Multiple Intelligences Theory (MI). During the discussion, based on his memoir, “A Synthesizing Mind,” Gardner explained how parents and educators should be nurturing and educating children […]
If your child has ever been called a “visual,” “verbal,” or “mathematical” learner, you can attribute this realization to developmental psychologist and Harvard professor Howard Gardner. In 1983, Gardner published his groundbreaking book called Frames of Mind, which outlines his theory of Multiple Intelligences. Rather than just one general intelligence—the kind measured by IQ tests—Gardner […]
