by Gretchen | May 30, 2015 | blog, podcast
I love when students text me, and encourage my clients to contact me whenever they need to. The other day I was doing some housework when a heard the familiar “ding!” and a text from a grad school client popped up. She was excited to share that she is in...
by Gretchen | May 26, 2015 | blog, podcast
What’s your experience with using your class notes to prepare for an exam? Do you have a strategy or do you just review them? Recently, a client struggled with this exact topic, and I thought it would be helpful for others to hear what we came up with. Check out this...
by Gretchen | May 17, 2015 | blog, podcast
Is creating a block of time to focus solely on finals a problem for you? I deal with this on a weekly basis during my academic coaching sessions with clients. The other day, a client struggled with creating a block of time to study. Although we decided it was...
by Gretchen | May 11, 2015 | blog, podcast
Have you ever wondered what the point of your textbook really was? If the teacher is lecturing all of the information to you, how can you utilize your textbook to properly study? That’s exactly what my client and I discussed recently during our session! To find...
by Gretchen | Mar 12, 2012 | blog, Organization
Last week one of my 6th grade coaching clients spontaneously started singing James Brown’s “I Feel Good” while we were cleaning out his binder: “I feel good! nuhnuh, nuhnuh, nuhnuh nuh… “So organi-ized nuhnuh, nuhnuh, nuhnuh!”...
by Gretchen | Sep 3, 2011 | Academic Coaching, blog
School began this week all over the Bay Area! I love the first week of school because students are full of hope and their organizational systems haven’t yet succumbed to a sea of papers. As an academic coaching, I work one on one with students, but no session...
