Earn high school credit in the comfort of your own home! In less than 2 minutes, Kirsten at Pacific Learning Academy explains how students working with our teachers complete courses in less time and with deeper understanding. It’s the magic of 1-on-1 education! Most of our high school credit students… Read more
How many times have you cringed when a colleague ham-fisted their utensils at the networking lunch? Well, this event will nip that in the bud before our favorite little humans even get to junior high school! An interactive manners class for children, taught by local etiquette coach, Arden Clise, caught… Read more
School is out in a few weeks – great news for area students, and a possible headache for families trying to keep their kids both busy and enriched. [Tweet this!] While you begin to plan what June, July and August look like for you and your family, keep in mind… Read more
This past Sunday I found myself running a 5k in a purple tutu. Surrounded by 6,000 very happy people, I asked myself more than once what on earth had compelled me to get up at 5:45 a.m. on a weekend morning just to run 3 miles with complete strangers. It… Read more
Every year Pacific Learning Academy asks families whether they called us at exactly the right time, or if they wished they had called sooner or later in the year. Not one family ever says “later,” and about half say they wish they had called sooner. It’s tough to gauge the… Read more
Mathematics is such a fundamental subject that it tends to play a part in just about every discipline, scientific and otherwise. As a certified math and music teacher, I had a diverse course load throughout my college days. The fun part about having two foci in college is that the… Read more
[Carrie is the SAT/ACT Program Manager at Pacific Learning Academy] With college admissions becoming increasingly competitive, particularly for the top colleges, more and more students are spending considerable time preparing for the SAT and ACT, the standardized tests to get into college. Gone are the days when students simply show… Read more
Recently I sat down with a family looking for some writing help for their 5th grader. We soon started to talk about how he was responding to his reading assignments as well. *David‘s mom shared that he had a hard time containing himself. After every few paragraphs of reading, David… Read more
Parents of Sophomores and Juniors: “HOW TO CHOOSE THE BEST COLLEGE FOR YOUR STUDENT AND FOR YOUR POCKETBOOK“ Tuesday, Feb. 5th, 2013 7pm – 8:30pm Sammamish Public Library 825 228th Ave SE Presented by Crystal Anderson (Crystal Clear College Planning) This will be a valuable class for all parents with… Read more
(Written with Kirsten O’Malley, PLA Director) When it comes to school, everyone has their strengths and weaknesses. You might plow through two chapters of American History in a single sitting, but find that five single-variable algebra problems require the kind of suffering we normally associate with polar exploration. Everyone has… Read more
