You want the best opportunities available for your student when they move into adult life. Whether that will be a work experience, vocational training, college, or university, this podcast will tell you what you need to know about planning for high school to get the most doors open following high school. Printed resources mentioned are available on our website: www.zlo.org. Click on Planning for High School. LESS

Administrator and veteran educator Molly Crocker discusses what standardized tests are, who they are for, their usefulness, and which tests are important to take. LESS

Some of the things we teach in arithmetic tend to amputate skills for algebra! Students learn and perform algorithms without having a clue why they work. This podcast advocates for emphasizing mental math skills while teaching and learning arithmetic, because these preview and support the kinds of skills that we need to teach algebra.Molly Crocker is the administrator of Zacchaeus Learning Opportunities, a group that supports parent-directed education, and is also an adjunct member of the math faculty at Whatcom Community College in Bellingham, WA.www.zlo.org LESS