By working together, children, parents, and teachers can Facilitate, Aggregate, Cultivate, Educate, and Succeed through today’s challenges

Facilitate – VERB – To make (an action or process) easy or easier.

Education is not a destination…it’s a journey. By working together, we can facilitate the journey so that we truly enjoy each and every moment.

Aggregate – Verb – to form or group into a class or cluster; to collect (related items of content) so as to display or link to them.

They say “it takes a village to raise a child…” I say it takes a slew of villagers.  When we all come together and are on the same page for the needs of each individual child, each phase of their learning process will link together like pieces of a puzzle.

Cultivate – Verb – to raise or grow; to apply oneself to improving or developing; to try to win the friendship or favor of; to try to acquire or develop (a quality, sentiment or skill).

“Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.” Anthony J. D’Angelo. They say, “you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink…But if you put salt in his mouth, you can sure make him thirsty”. If we make our children thirsty, we can help them cultivate their passion for learning.

Educate – Verb – to provide schooling for; to train by formal instruction and supervised practice especially in a skill, trade, or profession; to develop mentally, morally, or aesthetically especially by instruction; to provide with information; to persuade or condition to feel, believe, or act in a desired way.

“Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.” (Albert Einstein) In an ever changing world of instant gratification, we need to acknowledge the social, emotional, and neurological challenges our children face and teach them how to think for themselves and learn from their mistakes.

Succeed – Verb – to achieve the desired aim or result.

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” (Colin Powell) By working together, we will facilitate the hard work, aggregate to overcome our failures, cultivate the learning process and educate ourselves AND our children, how to reap life long success.