Learning

Foreign Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, and English

The Languages Lab creates an enriched and positive environment for kids to learn languages through comprehensive input, including story listening and reading and eventually -telling and writing. We apply the best pedagogical practices by bilingual linguist, educator and polyglot, professor Dr. Stephen Krashen.

Young learners will have an opportunity to hear many stories from our library with over 1000 books and 100 books in Russian, act them out, and connect with the language on a deeper level.

Create Lab: Drawing, Photo, and Video

The aim of this course is to inspire children to think creatively, in abstract and perspective, play with the fundamental rules in arts and embrace technology as a tool in their learning. This Lab applies Apple’s Everyone Can Create Curriculum for Early Learners and incorporates Google Arts, Design Principles of Art, and the Oops Art method developed by author and illustrator, Barney Saltzberg. We focus on child’s selected projects, mini stories children want to tell through art and technology, and reflection of the world around us in a playful way.

Necessary tools: Ipad or Iphone and Apple Pen 

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Kids in the Kitchen

Cooking is such an amazing way to learn about science. Many of us cook everyday and kids love to be in the Kitchen. But when we start to think why recipes work, why is that when you knead bread it has that remarkle texture, why is that the candy recipes work as they do, how is that you cook eggs that come out perfect – you immediately are led to thinking about the basic principles in science. And, why not to let the children explore food, cooking, nutrition, and science?!

Lab quests: why nutirition matters and how to read nutrition facts, flavor and heat, gelation and spherification, emulsions and foams, and many more.

Inspiration for this class came from my certificates on the Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter Science (Harvard EdX) course; Food, Nutrition, and Health series (Wageningen University and Research) and The Body Matters course (McGillX)

Magic Tricks for Kids

What’s a natural way of teaching kids to think in perspective? in abstract? critically? creatively? recognize illusion? Does what we see exist and what we don’t see – doesn’t? May it be that the things we see – are not really what they are, and what we don’t see – might be the most powerful in our lives?

Let’s approach it with LOL – simple magic tricks kids can learn and entertain the whole family and friends! Conjuring, or the practice of magic tricks, is one of the oldest performing arts and goes to 4000 years ago. And, the word “majic” is comes from Persians “Magi” and means “the mighty ones.”

The real secrets of magic are psychological, not mechanical. The audience is fooled because it is looking for solutions in the wrong place. This is called misdirection.

Inspiration came after taking Penn and Tell’s Master Class on The Art of Magic and Usher: The Art of Perfomance.

KidPreneur Craft

The KidPreneur Craft course designed for kids ages 8-12 to experiment with leadership skills, discover the spirit of entrepreneurship and the foundational framework of entreprneneurship: self-discipline, smart work, team work, leadership, ability to think strategically, learn fast, listen carefully, and ask great quesitons, and, of course, recognize the momentum!

Inspired by experience, observations, and the series of courses taken on Innovaiton and Entrepreneurship, including the best one: Discipline Entrepreneurship taught by Bill Aulet, MIT

What is learning and what is teaching?

How do we all learn? How do kids learn? How do we teach others to understand? How do we apply that knowledge in real life situtations?  What are the best pedagogical practices on learning and teaching from the perspective of neuroscience, psychology, and pedagogy?!

Inspiration: personal experience, knowledge, observations, studies and the number of cerfitied courses taken on learning and education.

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Craft Your Venture – everything you need to know to start and succeed!

What is entrepreneurship? What are the myths of entrepreneurship most people believe in? What are the most important components of any successful venture? Is it a name? a Website? Online marketing strategy? Number of followers? Great ideas/ products/ services? 

Craft Your Venture course is based on Bill Aulet’s framework for Disciplined Entrepreneurship (professor and entrepreneur, MIT Sloan School of Management), marketing professor and leader expert in the field – Mark Ritson‘s insights, and marketing professor and consultant, Carol Ann Clem (Harvard)

Lean In Circle: Economics of Well-being for Entrepreneurial Mothers Working from Home

Lean In Circle for entrepreneurial work-from-home mothers who seek wisdom holistically. The goal of this Circle is to help us keep the well-being of ourselves, our families, and our communities. 

Lean In Wise MomPreneurs Worldwide!

Monthly Zoom Circles from 1h to 1.5h

Starting January 2021

Languages: English, Russian, Ukrainian

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• Children from 9 to 13 years old
• Adults Interested in the Course for Personal or Professional Growth
• Organizations who work with children or adult learning. 

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