by MKWray | May 15, 2024 | Blog
Grades can be a major source of stress, even under normal circumstances. This semester, the sudden transition to online classes has led to wide-scale changes in grading policies that have created even more stress and uncertainty than usual. Whether your student...
by MKWray | Apr 29, 2024 | Blog
Increase Students’ Learning and Growth with an End-of-Year “Wrap Up” How does your student typically wrap up the end of their year? If the answer is “drops their backpack in a corner, where it will stay—untouched—until the next school year,” then there’s...
by MKWray | Apr 4, 2024 | Blog
How do you feel about failure? Most of us aren’t crazy about it. But at some point, no matter how hard we try, we’re going to fail at something. So, it’s important to consider how to respond to failure when it does happen, and how to improve our resilience so we’re...
by MKWray | Feb 18, 2024 | Blog
Is your student more of an optimist, or a pessimist? Studies have shown that optimists experience a number of benefits later in life, as compared with their more pessimistic peers, including… Better test scores and higher GPAs Lower levels of stress, anxiety, and...
by MKWray | Feb 7, 2024 | Blog
Most students want to do well in school. But wanting to do well doesn’t guarantee they will feel motivated to work on assignments in the moment. Even students who usually get good grades have days when they just don’t feel like doing homework or studying for...
by MKWray | Jan 25, 2024 | Blog
“They know what they need to do.I’ve reminded them 10 times already.This isn’t that hard.Why aren’t they doing it?Do they just not care?” We talk to parents all the time who are worried that their kids just don’t seem to care about doing well,...
