Vital Mercy
In this Vital Mercy series, Dr. Brenda Murphy shares letters to help calm the fears, answer the questions and steer parents on a path to successful teaching and learning with struggling learners at home. Have you ever had a day (or a week? or a month?) when your heart...
Vital Mercy
In this Vital Mercy series, Dr. Brenda Murphy shares letters to help calm the fears, answer the questions and steer parents on a path to successful teaching and learning with struggling learners at home. Laura Bailey, SailAway’s former Homeschool Director and...
Vital Mercy
In this Vital Mercy series, Dr. Brenda Murphy shares letters to help calm the fears, answer the questions and steer parents on a path to successful teaching and learning with struggling learners at home. It’s hard to face the fact that I worry too much. Since the day...
Assessments
Marty walks around the classroom, daydreams instead of listens, and turns in half-finished assignments if he turns them in at all. He gets off the school bus, runs to the house, through the door, up the stairs, to his bedroom and immediately whips out the video games....
SailAway Approach
So, who is a falling-through-the-cracks-kid? Jimmy. He sits behind the 30 students in his 8th grade math class, disengaged, and counts down the minutes until class is over. At the beginning of class when the teacher passed his desk, he asked for clarification on his...
