Let’s be honest about how the school year actually goes: the first week or two feels great. New notebooks, a clean planner, maybe even some genuine enthusiasm about your classes. Then week three rolls around, the shine wears off, and suddenly your bed is putting up a real fight for your attention. If that sounds…
The winter blues are a very real thing, especially for Minnesotans—shorter days (that feel longer), the desire to stay inside, and the temptation to curl up under a blanket instead of tackling assignments. But just because it’s frigid outside doesn’t mean your motivation has to disappear! If you’re an online student looking for ways to…
Preparing your student for adult life is part of your job. And financial literacy is a critical element of this. Many children don’t learn financial literacy, and only four in seven American adults are classified as “financially literate.” This means that a lot of parents can’t teach their kids because they don’t know enough themselves. It’s…
The students of today are more technologically-advanced than many of us were at their age. With the internet at their fingertips, they have plenty of resources at the ready. We are all conditioned now to Google an answer when we need it. That is a luxury. But, of course, it has its downfalls. Today’s students…
Students are struggling with anxiety more than ever before. If you know a student who is struggling, check out our tips.
Students, parents, and teachers are all familiar with the summer slide. While relaxing and having fun over summer, it’s easy for students to forget many of the lessons they absorbed during the school year. Fortunately, there are quite a few effective strategies that can help prevent this. 1. Keep Kids Reading During the Summer Reading…
Goal setting is a great way to motivate yourself to get things done. A vision board combines goal setting with visualization, a powerful method of focusing on your goals. Vision boards for teens not only work, but they’re fun to put together. If you haven’t made a vision board yet, there are plenty of online…
Updated 1/2022 Kids across the country and the world are or have utilized some form of online learning and have thus learned how to shift from traditional educational environments to virtual educational environments. When your middle or high school student picks up their phone, however, they’re likely watching the latest trend on Tik Tok or…
Chances are, school isn’t the only thing you have going on. Balancing your studies along with other extracurriculars and commitments can be challenging, to say the least. Sometimes it seems like there aren’t enough hours in the day to do it all. Procrastination can be tempting but eventually, it catches up with you. Fortunately, there…
The start of a new semester and a new year for that matter comes with a sense of starting anew. No matter how last semester or last year went, we now all have the opportunity to have a positive and successful new start. For students starting a new semester, this is the best time to…
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