This summer’s San Anselmo Art & Wine Festival was a blast! We got our groove on with the “Sounds of the 70s” in our free photo booth. Thanks to all the brave souls who made headbands, dressed in costume & posed in our sweet cardboard ride. And thanks so much to photographer [...]
With wild eyes & hammer in hand the 11 year old boy carefully located the covered tile and…Whac… 2 pieces… Whack!…4 pieces…Whack!…8…Whack whack whack!…dozens! At the other end of the picnic table several students diligently glued broken tiles as well as circles, squares & triangles onto the mosaic pattern. Slowly the design emerged [...]
Great performance in the SAT boils down to getting all the questions done and all the answers right. We provide weekly dress rehearsals every Saturday: a complete practice test free of charge!
On each of the following Tuesday evenings, students grade their own tests to understand the scoring system, to adjust their pacing, and make a [...]
We’ve long offered group and individual sessions, but now that we have a brand new center, we can offer a long considered idea of ours: Drop-in Membership. Subscribers can stop in anytime after school to work on their homework or master plan to overthrow the world and mold it to their own nefarious purposes… or [...]
Summer vacation has a special place in our annual experience. While our students see the world or just spend days at the skate park, we take time to gather our wits about us and create the perfect opportunities for our budding scholars. Slow, quiet days quickly give way to brisk breezes in August! Our back [...]
“What’s your relationship with math?” I asked my new student.
“I’m an artist, so the technical parts don’t excite me.”
I showed him a beautiful way to visualize algebra with a grapefruit and a piece of graph paper. His eyes lit up with curiousity and, after homework, we spent a little time each session exploring the beauty [...]