Welcome to OLMC’s blog! We hope these posts give you some insight into our approach to education and why we love what we do. Because this is a new edition of our website, we haven’t fully transferred all of our archived material, which spans back several years and offers an even more complete glimpse into who we are and how we accomplish our goal of preparing children for lives of eternal purpose. Please be patient with us and check back often, as we’ll be hard at work both adding new content and updating our archive!
Reading Scores Aren’t Improving: Here’s How to Change That
In order for students to read critically, they require not only reading skills, but the kind of content knowledge that allows them to ask meaningful questions of what they are reading—otherwise, they will be ill-equipped to encounter and reason with new information. It is understandable that wanting to provide young students with material that is developmentally appropriate might lead educators to expose them only to the kind of information that they can grasp thoroughly and completely. But this impulse may deprive students of the kind of intellectual background knowledge that they will one day invoke to make sense of new and more sophisticated material.
The OLMC Approach STEM
“Technology alone is not enough - it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that makes our hearts sing.” ~Steve Jobs