by Gretchen | Apr 12, 2018 | blog, College Prep, For Parents, podcast
How much can a student’s behavior truly change after a semester of coaching? In today’s episode, Gretchen walks us through a sixteen year old’s reflections about how he has grown as a result of academic coaching. The following eight ideas resulted from a brainstorm...
by Gretchen | Apr 12, 2018 | blog, College Prep, For Parents, podcast
The national average of number of AP classes taken by students admitted to top universities is five to eight total. That’s a lot! Deciding whether to take (or not take) Advanced Placement classes is more complicated that simply taking as many tests as possible. In...
by Gretchen | Apr 10, 2018 | blog, Study Skills
Do you ever find yourself sleeping in class? Or struggling NOT to sleep? Ugh. It’s the worst feeling. A client of mine was recently accused by his math teacher of sleeping in class. We spent part of our session discussing the cause, and what he might do about...
by Gretchen | Apr 3, 2018 | blog, College Prep, Organization, Study Skills
Do you ever struggle to take action on important school tasks on weekends? I certainly do, and I’m 44 years old! Imagine being 16! Recently a client revealed that she’d had another weekend of just “laying around”. She knew she had work to do,...
by Gretchen | Mar 27, 2018 | blog, note-taking, Reading, Student Life, Study Skills
Do you ever find textbooks supremely boring to read? I asked my client this the other day, and he said, “Well, not if they’re science. But everything else, yes!” This client — a high school senior — is taking a college class on Western Civilizations, and their...
by Gretchen | Mar 20, 2018 | blog, College Prep, Communication, For Parents, Study Skills
There’s a theme that’s popping up in every corner of my coaching practice these days, and it is: Emotion and cognition are inextricably linked! We academics like to think that it’s possible to learn facts and skills in a totally rational way,...
