by Gretchen | Mar 31, 2015 | Academic Coaching, Organization
Planners: students love them or hate them. Which one are you? I try to make sure that all clients who work with me have some method of what I call “making time visible,” even if you’re the type who hates planners. However, there is a common mistake...
by Gretchen | Dec 21, 2014 | Academic Coaching, Organization, Study Skills
Have you (or your student) ever been sent home with a lot of new material and no study guide? That’s exactly what my client complained about during a recent session. High school students are so used to teachers handing out study guides that it can totally throw...
by Gretchen | Dec 20, 2014 | Academic Coaching, note-taking, Organization, Study Skills
Have you (or your student) ever been sent home with a lot of new material and no study guide? That’s exactly what my client complained about during a recent session. High school students are so used to teachers handing out study guides that it can totally throw...
by Gretchen | Oct 15, 2012 | Academic Coaching, Organization
My client Jasmine is in 7th grade, has ADHD, and is an organizational disaster. Last week I asked her to organize her accordion folder by class; this week she had failed to do so. Papers were everywhere, in all kinds of disorder. And then…I pulled out a tool...
by Gretchen | Oct 1, 2012 | Academic Coaching, Organization, Procrastination
Homework. Blech. No one likes it. Especially on weekends. So how should students manage their time during their precious weekend time? When is the best time to do homework, and when is the best time to relax? In my experience, most students want to save their homework...
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!”...
