by | Sep 21, 2018 | Latest Blogs Category Posts
It’s the first nine weeks of school, and our children enter a new grade with all the hope in the world, that THIS school year will be great. We parents and grandparents reassure our loved ones that everything will be wonderful. After all, it’s a fresh...
by | Jul 17, 2018 | Latest Blogs Category Posts
The measure of a student’s academic success is something that, from the very first grade, is ingrained into our minds as having to do with grades and test scores. Students are judged and measured by numbers and performance. But what happens when a...
by | Jul 17, 2018 | Latest Blogs Category Posts
Northern Virginia parents are well-versed in what it takes to be an academically successful student. For some students that road is hard, for others it is easy, and for some it’s just boring. Some students want more out of their high school years than a perfect...
by | May 2, 2018 | Latest Blogs Category Posts
On Friday, April 27th, 2018 a group of Cortona Academy students, staff, and parents made the trek to Maryland’s NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. After a brief look around the Visitor’s Center, the group was lead the ever impressive “Science on a Sphere.”...
by | May 2, 2018 | Latest Blogs Category Posts
On April 5-6th Cortona Academy students and staff attended the Washington Convention Center’s USA Science and Engineering Festival. Cortona attends both the national festival and the regional events every year because we know what an amazing opportunity this is...
