FasTrack Tots: A Gradual Separation Mommy and Me Class for Toddlers
Don’t put off preschool! When 2 and 3-year-old children resist separation or have anxiety about preschool, parents often consider putting off school for another year. But studies show that 1/3 of intellectual skills are developed by age 6! This makes the pre-kindergarten years an opportunity for you to make the most of your young child’s […]
Report Highlights Importance of Affordable Supplemental Education in NYC!
A Spike in Failures The end of 2018 brought to a close the first five years of Common Core standards in New York high schools. After an initial drop in Regents exam pass rates, we thought we were out of the woods. Beginning in 2014-15, Common Core’s second year, scores improved and remained stable. Now, […]
An NYC G&T Success Story
FasTracKids is a gifted program (for gifted and potentially gifted students) designed to enhance the further intellectual development of naturally curious 3-to 7-year-olds. This STEAM+ Enrichment program is the culmination of years of research and has garnered a track record of proven successes in helping children achieve outstanding results in school and beyond! A Broad […]
Multiple Intelligences Theory at FasTracKids
At FasTracKids®, we believe in developing the WHOLE child. It’s not IF your child is smart; it’s HOW your child is smart! This simple statement guides everything we do at FasTracKids, but we can’t take credit for the idea. Our approach to learning has been influenced in significant ways by Howard Gardner’s theory of Multiple […]
Cashing in on (Distant Future) College Majors
Today’s Money-Making Majors The Cashlorette recently published an interesting (Depressing? Terrifying?) piece listing the top five most (monetarily) valuable college majors of 2017. The dismal pay associated with the top five least valuable degrees makes an appearance as well. It’s not hard to guess what the bullets on each of those lists have in common. […]
New Study Confirms FasTracKids Preschool Leads The Way
We’ve long known how powerful exposing children to academics at a young age can be for their scholastic growth. We’ve written several articles about it over the last few months. Finally, more and more educators and schools are catching on to the STEAM phenomenon – realizing that teaching early childhood Math, English Engineering and more […]
New Research Shows Support For Early Childhood STEM/STEAM Education
The Journal just published this article touting the importance of moving STEM learning earlier in a child’s educational journey. We couldn’t agree more! At FTKny.com and FasTracKids we’ve been infusing STEM into children’s lives since before STEM was a well-known concept. Research is now starting to prove what Fastrackids has been touting for the past […]
Talk to your Infant. Talk Early, Talk Often.
Talking to your baby early and often establishes stable foundation for listening and speaking, according to the BBC News. Babies can understand what you say to them. Well, ok, not quite. But infants do comprehend and ingrain their ‘birth’ language, according to a recent article in the BBC News. The study indicated in the first […]
The Importance of Early Childhood Education
Studies in child neurology show that the early years of a child’s life play a significant role in their brain development. This means that what you teach your children when they are young, stays with them for life. Since the time they are little babies, children start picking up on different things that happen around […]