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Smart Study Course

Successful Students
Study Smarter and Not Harder

Your Student Will Get a Private Dedicated Coach Who Will Work With Them To -

  • Help Them Develop Smart Study Habits
  • Gain Enduring Life Skills
  • Develop Grit
  • Develop a Growth Mindset
  • Achieve Remarkable Progress
  • Make Them Become Confident. Grow. Improve. Succeed.
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What Skills Will Your Dedicated Coach
Help My Child Develop?

How Does It Work?

Two Private 1:1 30 Minute Sessions per Month (Every other week)

Weekly Touch Points via Email/Text to Review Study Plans, Provide Feedback, and Encourage Positive Behavior

24/7 Access to Study Plan Tools, Articles, and Videos to Improve Focus/Concentration Skills, Stay Motivated and Engaged, and More

Real straight-A students don’t study harder—they study smarter. Proven study secrets used by real straight-A students across the country reveal that successful students have the following habits nailed down to a science.

  • Goal setting
  • Time Management
  • Prioritization
  • Organizational Skills
  • Study habits

American Psychology Association Shares Decades of Research Proving Effectiveness of Studying Smarter

Comprehensive studies by psychologists and researchers at multiple universities have found that studying smarter has significant impact on accelerating learning curves. The research has clearly demonstrated that Spacing, Interweaving and Self-Testing - coupled with remarkable organizational skills - help students to learn more effectively.

They also have recognized that practicing these methods is hard work - and call these strategies as “desirable difficulties.” “In the short term it's easier not to use these strategies, but in the long term it pays off a thousand times over," says Professor and Psychologist, Nate Kornell, PhD.

Comprehensive Meta Analysis Study Finds Study Habits, Skills & Attitude Improved Academic Performance

In comprehensive research reported in the Journal of Perspectives on Psychological Science (Crede, 2008), study habits, skills, and attitude of the students were found to substantially predict improved cognitive ability and academic performance.

Good learning habits helps students organize their efforts to solve problems, develop skills, acquire knowledge and complete school obligations.

*SHSA= Study Habits, Skills, and Attitudes

The Old Way

Students practiced study habits that included cramming at the last minute, re-reading text multiple times, underlining or highlighting text, or lack of practice of math problems.

The New Way

Students practice study habits that have been recommended based on best practices and research - including Spacing, Interweaving and Self-Testing.

The Old Result

You get frustrated that even though you studied hard, you were not getting the desired results.

The New Result

You feel confident, happy and inspired by your results given that you worked hard.

Research clearly shows that highly successful students actually spend less time studying than their peers do—they just study more effectively.

When students study less, but with greater intensity and focus consistently, and without distractions from social media, they make high achievement gains.

Time management and organizational skills provide the foundation for accelerated learning when coupled with great study habits.

Grit Matters to Achieve Higher Learning Outcomes

Students need to set and measure learning goals. When they persist with their learning to achieve their stated goals, their confidence increases and they are able to accomplish significantly more than their own imagined capacities.

Angela Duckworth is the founder and CEO of Character Lab, a nonprofit whose mission is to advance scientific insights that help children thrive. She is also a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and in 2013 was named a MacArthur Fellow. Prior to her career in research, she was a math and science teacher at public schools in New York City, San Francisco, and Philadelphia.

Source: angeladuckworth.com

Why Grit & Effort Leads to Achievement

Why does effort matter so much?

  • talent x effort = skill
  • skill x effort = achievement

Talent equates to how quickly your skills improve when you apply effort.

Achievement is the result of using your skill and applying effort.

In other words, effort factors in twice - it increases talent, and then it increases the application of that talent to achieve learning outcomes.

  • Someone of lower talent can catch up in skill level by applying effort
  • Someone of lower talent can reach the same skill level but achieve more over time by applying the skill with more effort
  • Someone of higher talent can achieve less by putting in less effort

Grit + Self-Reflection + Mentor Support Critical to Personalize
Growth Achievement

Not all students can just have a growth mindset and achieve success. Students want personal proof that their efforts are leading to results. Reflection is a skill that requires practice and feedback, just like anything else. An independent assessment of regular student reflections showed that pupils improved significantly over the course of one semester, and that improvement led to significant growth in academic GPA.

A consistent routine for student reflections, giving timely feedback on them, and making sure they connect the dots between specific actions they are taking and growth, all year, helps students achieve success in their academic pursuits.

“I thought I could get better if I kept working at it. Maybe this just isn’t for me?”Source: EdSurge, 2018, Growth Mindset

The Old Way

Students developed a fixed mindset. Students thought that they either were good in math or bad in math. They thought that this was an inherent natural fact that could not be changed.

The New Way

Students develop a growth mindset. The growth mindset believes trouble is just important feedback in the learning process.

The Old Result

In a fixed mindset, it’s all about the outcome. If you fail, you think all effort was wasted.

The New Result

Your flaws are just a TO-DO list of things to improve.

Make Guaranteed Progress and Get the Results You Want

The way to guarantee progress with your time is to conduct deliberate practice.

When you have a structured, disciplined way to put in deliberate practice and time, you WILL MAKE guaranteed progress and get the RESULTS you seek.

Deliberate practice consists of 4 steps:

  • Set a stretch goal. Focus on a narrow aspect that you want to improve. Set a reach goal that you can’t meet yet.
  • Apply full concentration and effort. Many greats do this in isolation, by themselves.
  • Receive immediate and informative feedback. Focus on what you can improve.
  • Repeat with reflection and refinement. Keep working until you meet that stretch goal. And when you meet it, choose a new stretch goal.

Source: Carol Dweck, Growth Mindset

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$109 per month

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$79 per month

Billed Every 12 Months

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