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.
By now, you’ve likely received your child’s financial aid package, so you have a sense of how big the college bill will be. If you haven’t already done so, this is a good time to sit down with your child and discuss your family’s plan to pay for college.
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.
Students and young professionals have expressed anxiety and apprehension about these platforms, and often do not know how to prepare for this first interaction with a potential employer. The best way to support our clients is to practice interviewing with the same cutting edge video interview software that employers use.
Between the social-emotional post-pandemic catch up, global uncertainty and dangers, and the greater academic stresses in our more competitive world, students are more debilitated than ever by external stress factors. To accommodate students’ increased stress levels, schools can expand social-emotional learning programs, make a greater effort to recognize signs of trauma and behavioral changes in students, provide mental health support for students, and support mental health professionals in academic environments.
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.
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?
Nowadays, hand-written thank you notes, cards of any kind, are infrequently sent. With online methods of communication dominating the way we speak to one another, the best we can typically anticipate is a grammatically correct thank you email. But no matter how you choose to show your appreciation, there are many reasons to do so. Here are our top 4 reasons why you should send someone a thank you note – for a job interview, for a college visit, for any reason.
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.
This is the first time in several years that most high school students will be taking in person final exams. This presents a new challenge
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