Prepping Your Home for Back-to-School Season
Updated July 2025
If you have school-aged children, the summer season is a great time to get a fresh start before...
Getting Your Home Ready for Remote Learning
With many school districts here in Chicagoland and around the country set to start the year with remote learning, now is the time to make sure your home is truly ready for your students to head back to class — at a distance.
Whether working on a group project with friends or taking notes on a lesson over video chat, kids and young adults are going to need spaces of their own to focus, learn, and create this fall.
Looking to get over the "back-to-school" rush and help your little ones make the most of their virtual class time? Here are five important ways to help create a home learning environment that is comfortable, functional, and ready to help your family start the school year on the right foot:
Overcome Organization Challenges
As the holidays approach, school commitments increase, and extra-curriculars pick up, it can be really easy to lose track of permission slips and activity schedules, especially if you have more than one kid hitting the books. Don't let the business of busy-ness get the better of you! Try a few of these daily tricks to keep your family organized throughout the year. Write down events on a...
