Successful StudentsStudy Smarter and Not Harder
Your Student Will Get a Private Dedicated Coach Who Will Work With Them To
- Help Them Develop Smart Study Habits
- Gain Enduring Life Skills
- Develop Grit
- Develop a Growth Mindset
- Achieve Remarkable Progress
- Make Them Become Confident. Grow. Improve. Succeed.
What Skills Will Your Dedicated Coach Help My Child Develop?
Develop Time Management Skills
When students learn to manage their time, using our industry-leading, best practices-based approach, their stress levels go down, and they become happier & more confident about themselves.
Gain Smart Study Habits
Research clearly shows that highly successful students spend less time studying than their peers do — they just study more effectively. Complex and durable learning comes easily when students follow our research-based strategies that have been demonstrated to work.
Learn Goal Setting
Students need to learn how to set and measure learning goals. When they persist with their learning to achieve their stated goals, they feel more confident and can accomplish significantly more than their own imagined capacities.
Develop Organizational Skills and Study Plans
Students should create study plans and develop habits to regularly check/monitor their study plans and track their actions against what they had planned. The result? They study less, but with greater intensity and focus (and without distractions from social media) they see high achievement gains.
Achieve Aspirational & Motivational Goals
Aspirational goals are closely tied to desire and wanting to achieve something great. Psychologists have proved that specific and ambitious goals can lead to a higher level of performance than easy or general goals.
Develop Grit
“Enthusiasm is common, endurance is rare.” — Well-known educator Angela Duckworth on developing grit. When students develop an academic mindset of dedication to stick to goals that they set and persevere in their efforts, their academic performance is boosted — and this holds throughout their lives.
Develop Concentration and Focus
Developing skills to improve concentration and focus allows students to accelerate learning and become efficient in how they learn & how much time they invest in learning. Students see an amplified impact on their reasoning and critical thinking skills.
Build Emotional and Social Wellbeing
Successful students understand and apply social-emotional wellness behaviors, such as coping, managing emotions through gratitude, or adjusting one's mindset based on what one can control.
Develop Growth Mindset
Extensive psychological research studies have shown that those who believe they can develop their talents tend to achieve more than those who feel their abilities are innate and fixed. Those with a growth mindset see opportunities instead of obstacles, choosing to challenge themselves to learn more rather than sticking to their comfort zone.
How Does It Work?
Two Private 1:1 30 Minute Sessions per Month (Every other week)
Weekly Touch Points via Email/Text to Review Study Plans, Provide Feedback, and Encourage Positive Behavior
24/7 Access to Study Plan Tools, Articles, and Videos to Improve Focus/Concentration Skills, Stay Motivated and Engaged, and More
Real straight-A students don’t study harder—they study smarter. Proven study secrets used by real straight-A students across the country reveal that successful students have the following habits nailed down to a science.
- Goal setting
- Time Management
- Prioritization
- Organizational Skills
- Study habits
American Psychology Association Shares Decades of Research Proving Effectiveness of Studying Smarter
Comprehensive studies by psychologists and researchers at multiple universities have found that studying smarter has significant impact on accelerating learning curves. The research has clearly demonstrated that Spacing, Interweaving and Self-Testing - coupled with remarkable organizational skills - help students to learn more effectively.
They also have recognized that practicing these methods is hard work - and call these strategies as “desirable difficulties.” "In the short term it's easier not to use these strategies, but in the long term it pays off a thousand times over," says Professor and Psychologist, Nate Kornell, PhD.
Comprehensive Meta Analysis Study Finds Study Habits, Skills & Attitude Improved Academic Performance
In comprehensive research reported in the Journal of Perspectives on Psychological Science (Crede, 2008), study habits, skills, and attitude of the students were found to substantially predict improved cognitive ability and academic performance.
Good learning habits helps students organize their efforts to solve problems, develop skills, acquire knowledge and complete school obligations.
*SHSA= Study Habits, Skills, and Attitudes
Students practiced study habits that included cramming at the last minute, re-reading text multiple times, underlining or highlighting text, or lack of practice of math problems.
Students did not have a written study plan and plans were ad-hoc and made up each day.
Students did not have good organizational skills. They were not sure how to balance study times with other social activities.
There was no fixed study times for each day of the week.
Goals were not set for their study times.
The Old Result
You get frustrated that even though you studied hard, you were not getting the desired results.
You always feel that you are playing catch-up since you did not have any study-plans and end up cramming material instead of learning them.
You seldom have the time to understand the material you are covering as you are always playing catch-up. You end up trying to memorize your way to getting good grades.
You feel less confident about your abilities and you start to think that you are incapable of achieving good grades.
Students practice study habits that have been recommended based on best practices and research - including Spacing, Interweaving and Self-Testing.
Students have a well written study plan that they follow each day.
Students organize their weekly calendar and have a balance between study times and other social activities, with thought out breaks in-between to give themselves sufficient time to be well rested between study sessions.
Students pick fixed study times each day and make sure that they are free from distractions.
They set goals for what they want to accomplish at the end of each study session.
The New Result
You feel confident, happy and inspired by your results given that you worked hard.
You thoroughly understand all the concepts you have studied and feel that you do not have to keep studying the same concepts again and again as you already understand the material.
You have more time on your hands and you are able to pick up the pace of your study plans.
You feel good about yourself and are able to spend time with friends and family without feeling guilty that you are missing out on study time. You feel relaxed.
You are motivated to keep learning as you now are not too concerned about just the results, but because you are enjoying the process of studying. You become a rockstar student who is able to study smart and not study hard.
The Old Way
Students practiced study habits that included cramming at the last minute, re-reading text multiple times, underlining or highlighting text, or lack of practice of math problems.
Students did not have a written study plan and plans were ad-hoc and made up each day.
Students did not have good organizational skills. They were not sure how to balance study times with other social activities.
There was no fixed study times for each day of the week.
Goals were not set for their study times.
The Old Result
You get frustrated that even though you studied hard, you were not getting the desired results.
You always feel that you are playing catch-up since you did not have any study-plans and end up cramming material instead of learning them.
You seldom have the time to understand the material you are covering as you are always playing catch-up. You end up trying to memorize your way to getting good grades.
You feel less confident about your abilities and you start to think that you are incapable of achieving good grades.
The New Way
Students practice study habits that have been recommended based on best practices and research - including Spacing, Interweaving and Self-Testing.
Students have a well written study plan that they follow each day.
Students organize their weekly calendar and have a balance between study times and other social activities, with thought out breaks in-between to give themselves sufficient time to be well rested between study sessions.
Students pick fixed study times each day and make sure that they are free from distractions.
They set goals for what they want to accomplish at the end of each study session.
The New Result
You feel confident, happy and inspired by your results given that you worked hard.
You thoroughly understand all the concepts you have studied and feel that you do not have to keep studying the same concepts again and again as you already understand the material.
You have more time on your hands and you are able to pick up the pace of your study plans.
You feel good about yourself and are able to spend time with friends and family without feeling guilty that you are missing out on study time. You feel relaxed.
You are motivated to keep learning as you now are not too concerned about just the results, but because you are enjoying the process of studying. You become a rockstar student who is able to study smart and not study hard.