Author: Courtney Cairns Pastor

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Happiness Increases When Students Focus on Helping Others

Discover how Corbett Prep students and teachers learned how volunteering creates happiness when they worked together to create their new Watershed Warriors club.

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Raising Readers in a Parent-Child Book Club

Corbett Prep is sharing simple tips on starting a family book club that everyone will look forward to and enjoy together.

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Navigating a Competitive Admissions Season Without Stress

The school year still feels brand new, so how is it time to begin thinking about 2025-26? If you’re considering enrolling in a private school, it’s smart to start early. Applications are open at private schools, where admissions officers expect another busy season. A Cato Institute survey showed that 50 percent of private schools received…

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Half-Day Summer Camps Combine for Full-Day Fun

Your kids want summer camps where they can battle robots, decorate cupcakes, design video games and play with American Girl dolls and Legos. Your goals for them are academic practice, exercise, time away from screens and maybe an opportunity to try a new activity. Can one Tampa summer camp accomplish all that before school is…

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How Corbett Prep is Building a Bridge to Middle School in Fifth Grade

It’s elective day in fifth grade, and the Forensic Science class is seated in Corbett Prep’s Middle School lab with mysterious red vials and tiny plastic trays for a lesson on blood type analysis. The synthetic blood will react differently depending on the blood type when mixed with an antiserum, so the fifth graders carefully…