Dr. Stacey Schmidt

Heather Lint, Director of Nursing at PTSC, has been hard at work updating the PTSC Health Services website. When you visit our main webpage, click on "Services" in the left column and then pick "Student Health" to find many great resources. It is an...

Have you wondered how you can better help your child with their homework or even what role you should take in homework as a parent? You are not alone! Homework is often a widely debated topic. Here are some resources from great organizations that...

At about this time last year I spent a week posting about some intriguing questions posed by David Warlick about how we are to prepare students for a world which we ourselves cannot imagine. This fall I seem to be returning to the same types of...

Recently my husband and I were eating dinner together and we found ourselves needing to set perimeters for cell phones at the table. As we were discussing this topic, we were also talking about how different family meals have become even since we...

I can't believe it--but we are in the final month of school. Each year seems to go by at a more rapid pace. Although it is our last month of school, we still have a lot left to accomplish! As you know, ECA and ISTEP+ testing have been going on last...

Developmental Assets Recently I was in a meeting discussing the Developmental Assets that the Search Institute has identified as building blocks for what children need as they grow. If you haven't read about these, check them out here and if you...

As you may have read in the newspaper, Indiana has been working on College and Career Readiness Standards and by law has until July 1, 2014 to adopt such standards. Indiana decided to pull out of the Common Core Standards, although teachers have been...

We are pleased to announce that Boone Grove High School has been named a 4 Star School for the 2012-2013 school year according to information released from the Indiana Department of Education. According to the Department of Education, to achieve this...