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New Year, New Energy: 5 Ways to Build Academic Confidence in 2024

January 3, 2024 No Comments

Studies illustrate that confident students face challenges enthusiastically, are more resilient, and become lifelong learners. Confident students maintain the inherent belief that they can achieve their goals, recognizing that they have control over their lives and can acquire any skills they need. Ultimately, confidence is a significant predictor of academic, social-emotional, and professional success. This year, we want to encourage every student to start off the school year confidently.

3 Essential Elements of College Readiness, for Students and Families

October 28, 2023 No Comments

Every family should consider three essential elements of college readiness: parents’ financial ability to afford higher education, a child’s academic preparedness, and a child’s emotional readiness.

5 Ways to Encourage Children to Become Confident Lifelong Learners

June 23, 2023 No Comments

Learning how to learn helps children to develop individualized strategies that will enable them to thrive in and out of the classroom. So, while children are mired down by memorizing theorems, dates, and endless facts, how can we teach them to learn? Here are 5 ways to encourage children to become confident, lifelong learners.

The College Admissions Process: A Journey of Self-Discovery in 6 (Not So Simple) Steps

April 17, 2023 No Comments

The college process incorporates more than one year of high school. It is a holistic process that starts during a student’s freshman year of high school, as students pick their classes, start to join clubs and sports, and immerse themselves in extracurricular activities and part-time jobs.

And while the college process might be stressful, anxiety-producing…you get the point, it is also a huge learning opportunity for students. It is a process of self-discovery and a process of skill-building.

The Sunday Scaries: 6 Ways to Stop Children from Procrastinating

April 9, 2023 No Comments

Every Sunday night, after a full day of sports, birthday parties, multiple meals and snacks, when you’re ready to leave the kitchen and head to the couch to watch t.v. or read a book, after you’ve told your children to pack up for school…three times, your children hit you with it. Your 3rd grader has a project due on Monday…and they didn’t start it. Your 8th grader has to read 50 pages of Lord of the Flies and annotate so that he/she/they can present to the class the next day. Your 10th grader has a chemistry test first period on Monday morning, and he/she/they hasn’t studied. How can you avoid the Sunday Scaries?

4 Effective Strategies to Help Students Become More Confident Writers

January 19, 2023 No Comments

While learning to write is a vital skill, it is not necessarily an easy skill to master for every student. Let’s consider the following 4 strategies that will help students become more effective, more confident, more successful writers.

5 Ways to Encourage Children to Follow the Science

July 30, 2021 No Comments

We are frequently told to “follow the science” in many situations, from healthcare to environmental issues. But to teach our children to trust the science, we must teach them to understand and appreciate science.

School’s Out for Summer: 5 Important Reasons to Read This Summer

July 6, 2021 No Comments

This summer, as children unwind from a stressful school year, encourage them to pick up those books and read. Encourage children to make reading part of their routine rather than a school assignment. Encourage them to immerse themselves in their imagination, different perspectives, and diverse worlds.

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7 Ways to Positively Encourage Curiosity and Wonder in Children

June 17, 2021 No Comments

Learning should not be something children only do for eight or nine months a year. Learning should be a constant, lifelong process. It should evoke

The Haircut Kiss

January 7, 2021 No Comments

Marlene Kern Fischer, the brilliant blogger behind Thoughts from Aisle 4 and author of Gained a Daughter But Nearly Lost My Mind: How I Planned a Backyard Wedding During a Pandemic shares her perspectives on parenting.

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