Your Child Should Have A Job

Experiences can build strong character in your child.  Not only that, but experience can provide things to look back on an...

The Beginning, The Failure, and The Comeback

Don’t fear beginnings. Fear regret. How many times have we decided to dedicate ourselves to something completely new and th...

What is the Socratic Method and Why is it Important?

I was watching a Louder With Crowder “Change My Mind” segment yesterday when just about 15 minutes into the video, the host,...

The Classroom is Out of Style

If I tell you to think of a classroom, what do you picture? Is it so surprising that it would be desks lined into rows fac...

Why in the world would a school put on an event called “No Safe Spaces”?

If you know anything about Acton Academy, you know that we’re no ordinary school.  Students from different grade levels in...

How to give your child respect and maintain your authority

You will always hear me talk about how children are smarter than society often gives them credit for.  We can see evidenc...