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I work with a lot of students who want better, easier, faster ways of organizing school and personal life so they can be MORE successful and LESS stressed. Google Keep, connected with your Gmail account, is a VERY powerful, flexible and easy tool to help. In this video I teach
This vlog is based on this email: First, you are the best! Love all the help you provide EF-challenged kids! Question on your simple schoolwork system: How do you tell high school kids to manage carrying all of these separate folders/comp books? Most times they can’t go to locker til
Please CLICK above to share. It’s that time of year again, back to school shopping. K-College, your child needs supplies. But what do they really need to buy? What goes to waste and what’s most beneficial? Sometimes it’s best to take supply lists with a grain of salt in
Please CLICK above to share. Here’s part 2/3. In part 1, I mentioned the following: I recently received this email: My youngest (age 11) is challenged by organization. We’re working together to figure out systems and tools that help align her success in this area.” Well, here in part 2
Please CLICK above to share. Here’s part 3/3. In part 1, I mentioned the following: I recently received this email: My youngest (age 11) is challenged by organization. We’re working together to figure out systems and tools that help align her success in this area. In part 2 I broke
Please CLICK above to share. The “Organizationally Challenged,” Video 1 of 3 I recently received this email: My youngest (age 11) is challenged by organization. We’re working together to figure out systems and tools that help align her success in this area. Well, all the students I work with are “organizationally
Today I’m going to teach you exactly how and why I teach students to do a regular “backpack overhaul” and why it’s a critical tool for student success. Trust me, this is one of the best game-changers. How long the overhaul takes: 1 hour the first time you do an overhaul.
Here’s a 7 minute video where I share how I help prep students for the spring semester. Of course many students won’t want to do this. After all, it’s not exactly fun. But the amount of energy and frustration it will save makes it well worth it. Not to mention,
Here’s a video that just might have some great insights for you. It’s about one of my favorite systems I help students develop. I call it “the queue.” It’s a simple, powerful method of tracking everything important, homework or otherwise, in one centralized place. As one of my students said, “it
Make no mistake, the patterns that are set in the first 4-6 weeks of school set the tone for the entire school year. If students hit a wall 6 weeks in, and red flags start popping up, chances are they’ll be afflicted with S.U.S.S. for the rest of the year (Swimming
