Study Tips and Strategies

Improving Your Child’s Reading Skills

Improving Your Child’s Reading Skills 150 150 Kristen

Strong reading skills are essential to academic success. If you have noticed your child struggling with reading or reading below his or her grade level, you may want to take…

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High School Students and Learning Disabilities

High School Students and Learning Disabilities Teaching Staff

High school can be a difficult time. Your classes and subjects are becoming more complex, your responsibilities are increasing and you’re probably having to learn how to effectively manage your…

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How to Take Better Notes

How to Take Better Notes Teaching Staff

As we text, email and type more and more in our daily lives, many of us find ourselves not relying on our handwriting or writing skills anymore. As a high…

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Important Study Habits for High Schoolers

Important Study Habits for High Schoolers 150 150 Kristen

High school can be a busy and stressful time in a young person’s life. With classes, homework, extracurriculars, preparing for important tests like the SAT, searching for and visiting colleges…

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How to Improve Your SAT Math Score

How to Improve Your SAT Math Score Teaching Staff

Everyone wants to reach their true potential and score as highly as possible on the SAT. And with the math section, every last point counts so it’s important to know…

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Time Management: Using Mission Elapsed Time (MET)

Time Management: Using Mission Elapsed Time (MET) 150 150 Suzanne

Time management is not the easiest thing to learn or to teach… it is a uniquely individual thing, but one which requires mastery in order to be an effective student. …

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How History Helps Learning

How History Helps Learning 150 150 Suzanne

History is an important subject in helping students develop critical thinking skills which they can apply to all areas of learning. Learning in history or social studies is conducted so…

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Good Reads and Recommendations

Good Reads and Recommendations 150 150 Suzanne

The study of the mind has a vast body of literature, which is not to be confused with the genre of self-help literature. Although books about the mind are extremely…

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What is Close Reading?

What is Close Reading? 150 150 Suzanne

The development of close reading and critical reading strategies is essential to academic, and personal, success. The process is perpetual; we all pick up new ideas, words and ideas as…

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Recent News on the SAT’s

Recent News on the SAT’s 150 150 Suzanne

Standardized tests are a huge part of the current educational system, and it is a topic that gets a lot of discussion. Within the fray, there was a recent article…

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