Nochum Kaplan

A master educator shares personal guidance from the Rebbe.

Educators advocate that schools actively teach more thinking skills as opposed to subject content. I wonder what of the moral underpinnings of our thinking processes?

It has been said that to teach a child to enjoy books is to open a window to a world of wonder; to the past and to the imagined future. It is to give a child a lifelong gift...

Parents need to know what their children are doing at school and to become actively involved in helping facilitate their success.

Parents are expected to be supportive of the school, supportive of the administration and faculty, supportive of its policies and to be fully engaged in the educational lives of their children.

The formula for making a parent teacher evening a success can be reduced to a single word: preparedness.

What should reasonably be expected of a teacher?

The most common reason for a child’s misbehavior is his/her need of attention. What's the teacher or the parent to do?

A closer relationship between home and school is essential if we are to deal effectively with some of the challenges our children present us with

One of the less admirable developments of our modern era, it appears, has been the gradual decline of refined language and civil behavior. The very idea of refined language seems somewhat quaint. What can we do to change attitudes about acceptable speech?