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Friendships in the Digital Classroom: How Two WTMA Students Built a Lasting Connection

Well-Trained Mind AcademyDecember 19, 2024Student Life, Writing

Some Well-Trained Mind Academy students develop digital classroom friendships before meeting in real life.

In a world where virtual learning has become the norm, digital classroom friendships might seem harder to forge. But for Sophia and Adelee, students at the Well-Trained Mind Academy (WTMA), … Read More

Communicating Science with Purpose: Dr. Andrew Jordan’s Strategies for Effective Proposals and Presentations

Well-Trained Mind AcademyOctober 16, 2024Events, Science, Uncategorized, Writing

Two photos, with the left photo showing an overview of a crowded convention hall with rows of science presentations. the photo on the right shows Dr. Andrew Jordan answering an audience question during a science presentation.

In this second installment of the Well-Trained Mind Academy’s science writing workshop series, Dr. Andrew Jordan added to his valuable advice for writing scientific papers, this time focusing on scientific … Read More

To Be A Good Scientist, You Have To Be A Good Writer: A Talk with Andrew Jordan

Well-Trained Mind AcademyApril 19, 2023Math, Science, Writing

During a talk with Andrew Jordan, Well-Trained Mind Academy Students learned that writing well is an essential part of a successful career in the sciences.

Dr. Andrew Jordan, research scientist at the University of New Hampshire’s Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space and co-investigator on NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Mission, has a … Read More

Q&A with Dr. Susan Wise Bauer

Well-Trained Mind AcademyDecember 15, 2022General Education, Writing

Susan Wise Bauer, founder of the Well-Trained Mind Academy, knows a lot about homeschooling. When Dr. Bauer was still a preschooler, her mother taught her older brother to read. She was … Read More

Meet the Anthonys: A WTMA Writing Family

Well-Trained Mind AcademyAugust 22, 2022Family Interviews, Writing

Anthony Family

All different types of families come to the Well-Trained Mind Academy for their various educational needs. One reason homeschooling families seek out our help is to teach their students in … Read More

WTMA Newspaper Club Launches the Inaugural Issue of the Well-Trained Tribune

Well-Trained Mind AcademyMarch 3, 2022Writing

WTMA student Newspaper Staff

By Dr. Lisa Gentile, Faculty Mentor The Well-Trained Mind Academy is thrilled to announce the publication of our monthly digital student newspaper located in the community section of the WTMA … Read More

Bobby No More: Boris Fishman on Identity, Writing, and the Hustle

Well-Trained Mind AcademyJanuary 24, 2022Writing

boris fishman

In November of 2021, author Boris Fishman spoke with the WTMA Class of 2025 about his work as a writer. Of course you would expect a writer to give eloquent … Read More

On Summer and Staying and All That’s Left Unsunk.

Well-Trained Mind AcademyJuly 9, 2021History, Writing

the peter iredale ship

Masts snapped on impact. The mizzentop shot seaward. Shattered, slivered fragments battered with abandon. Having sailed safely northward from Salina Cruz, Mexico, along and beyond the California coastline, the twenty-seven … Read More

Kayla Meyers’s Favorite Writing Assignments

Well-Trained Mind AcademySeptember 8, 2020Writing

student working on her writing assignments

Now in my sixth year with the Well-Trained Mind Academy, the beginning of the academic year takes on a predictable rhythm. I review my rosters, update my Blackboard pages, refresh … Read More

Lines Before Rhymes: Teaching Students How to Engage with Poetry

Well-Trained Mind AcademyAugust 10, 2020Writing

girl writing poetry in the grass

There are a lot of things I don’t understand.  Needless abbreviation in text messages, say. Or suspenders on pants that have belt loops. Even the lack of complexity in a … Read More

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