Blogs
Capturing Interest NOW Equals a Successful School Year
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 start! Then,...
Gaia
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 student's scores and...
Jason
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 record...
Cortona and the Goddard Space Tour
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.” This...
USA Science and Engineering Festival
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 for...
From Student to Professor
This school year is coming to a close and Cortona Academy's 26th Graduation ceremony is just around the corner. In honor of the closing of a chapter and the beginning of a new facet in life, this month Cortona Academy is featuring Professor Eric. As a member of...
National Archives Field Trip
On Friday, April 9th, 2018 a group of Cortona Academy students and staff spent the day in Washington D.C. at two very exciting field trips. The first was at the Museum of National History. The museum offers a set of unique learning opportunities for students in grades...
Community Crane Initiative & Cortona Students
This spring the Cortona Academy community of students and professors participated in a local campaign, the Community Crane Infinitive, in order to honor those people in the United States who are living with stage IV breast cancer. The initiative aim to make 150,000...
Library of Congress Field Trip
On Friday, February 9th, 2018, a group of Cortona Academy students, parents, and staff made their way into the cold weather in Washington, D.C. to start their day with a tour of the Library of Congress. According to the Library's web page it holds, “More than 38...
Summer Camps & Social Intelligence – the Best of Both Worlds
There are two common kinds of basic summer camps available for children. There are the traditional camps we all think of when we think of summer camps: structured, outdoor adventure camps filled with hot summer days, punch, and plenty of buzzing insects. Then there...