When’s the last time to told your kids they were incredible?  Have you ever thought about writing them a letter to let them know how you feel. Well nows your chance. Next Thursday, March 20th is Absolutely Incredible Kid Day. The day honors our natio

CELEBRATE MUSIC IN OUR SCHOOLS MONTH in MARCH 2014 Did you know that March is Music In Our Schools Month?  According to the National Association of Music Educators, "Music In Our Schools Month – March 2014  is a great time to highlight the impor

Hiya Art Smart Parents!   I hope that last few weeks have been amazing.   As you've grown your knowledge base surrounding MI and the arts, I know you've been able to help your kids gain new found confidence in school and life.   March 2 is a special

If you're a regular of the Raising smART kids podcast/blog, you know that I find story telling and creation a family-fun activity and one that engages all the multiple intelligences.   This week we'll be discussing story creation for Tell A Fairy Tal

Happy valentine’s day art smart parents! We've spent the last 8 weeks diving into specific study strategies for each of the 8 Multiple Intelligences.   I'd like to take a departure from such academic discussion and offer some activities you can use

  Today we’ll be diving deeper into study strategies for Verbal Linguistic Intelligence or Word Smart, the final installment in this series of 8 podcasts/blog posts.  As with the previous posts/podcasts, this post has been inspired by the work o...

Over the past 6 weeks we’ve been discussing Howard Gardner’s 8 multiple intelligences or learning archetypes as well as specific study strategies for each of them.  Adam Sikinski's blog inspired this current series of podcasts/blogs.  Though he does

For the past several weeks we’ve taken a closer look at study strategies for each of the Multiple Intelligences as proposed by Harvard Professor Howard Gardner and discussed on Adam Sikinski’s blog.   Today’s topic is study skills for mathematical

For the past several weeks, we’ve been discussing study strategies for each of the 8 Multiple Intelligences (Howard Gardner and the blog post of Adam Sicinski). To recap, each of us has 8 distinct types of intelligences that come in to play depending o

We've explored study strategies for Visual-Spatial, Bodily-Kinesthetic, and musical Intelligences. Today we’ll look more closely at study strategies of Interpersonal Intelligence (again inspired Adam Sikinski blog post). Before we dive it, I just want