Studying Resources

Goals are crucial to school success (and areas of life beyond the classroom). Setting and tracking goals helps your child learn important life skills such as planning, organization, and time management while also building communication skills, self-awareness, and confidence. Creating and tracking goals is a great way to understand your child’s current academic standing and […]

We all know that getting a full night of sleep is important—and it’s even more important for the young minds of students. But with increasing amounts of schoolwork and extra-curricular activities, more and more students are sacrificing sleep to get more work done. Staying up late or pulling all-nighters can actually hurt your child’s academic […]

Multitasking can help students check off many items on a to-do list. However, doing two or more tasks at the same time affects their ability to do those tasks well. When students multitask, they are not dividing their attention equally between two tasks. Instead, their focus rapidly shifts between the tasks. This task-switching actually makes […]

Have you ever finished a chapter in a textbook, only to realize you don’t remember anything you just read? While you technically finished what was assigned, none of the information actually stuck. The solution? Taking notes while you read! Taking notes while reading is a great strategy to ensure you’re grasping and retaining material from […]

Stress is a normal reaction to change—which can be good or bad! Good stress helps to sharpen thinking skills and helps the body perform better (like improved sports performance). But bad stress can have the opposite effect. Stress triggers the body’s “fight-or-flight” response. The brain releases hormones as a response to stress that can be […]