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Biography of a Struggling Student: My Story

This story may be more than you need to know, but I like to be transparent. I hope this is helpful. Messages As you know, I’m Seth, and you probably won’t be surprised to learn that I was the struggling student that I work to help nowadays. Yep, I was

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PARENTS, Are Apps For Students Really Worth It?

Please CLICK above to share. Parents, I went on a bit of a rant here, but it ends well! Enjoy. Below is the text from the email that inspired this video… I’ve reached a peak frustration level with my 2e student. I have attended many parent seminars / conferences /

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Students: Are You Going Through “The Dip” Again? [Video]

“The Dip” is a completely predictable pattern for many outside-the-box students. Here’s how it goes: The semester starts strong. Organized, optimistic, ready. Classes seem to go well for a couple of weeks. A couple of things go wrong, but no cause for alarm. Maybe you forgot to study for a

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The Most Important Thing of All

The Most Important Thing in the World… It’s not grades, SAT scores, college readiness. It’s not staying out of trouble, perfection, getting a job. It’s not extra curricular, resumes, letters of recommendation. It’s not “out there” anywhere. It’s so easy to get lost in the other stuff, but it’s right

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An Excellent Way To Evaluate Curriculum

Content, Process, and Product Parents and teachers, this video breaks down three extremely helpful concepts used to build curriculum – “Content, Process, and Product”. This will give you a useful filter to can use as you contemplate how well the curriculum meets the needs of your child. Content – What

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Frustrations

1/3 – What frustrates your kids most about YOU? 2/3 – What frustrates your kids most about SCHOOL? 3/3 – What frustrates your kids most about THEMSELVES? Last week I asked my students what frustrated them most about: Parents School Themselves The responses were really interesting and I made 3

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“He’s not motivated by much of anything”

Here is a set of 3 videos based upon the following email I received from a reader: Hello Seth, I have an 11-year old son in 6th grade, a 2E-type boy (in a “GT” program since 3rd grade and also on a 504), who is not motivated by much of

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