You are, or are almost done with school. Soon, you, along with all your friends in high school, will be having fun in the Sun, camping, or generally just enjoying a slower pace of life until school starts up again in September. However, you should be careful not to forget what you learned over this past academic year. If you do, you will start school at a disadvantage and make the next scholastic year even harder than it needs to be. For all high school students entering gra

I'd like to tell you about Fixed and Growth Mindsets. If you're a pop-psych junkie, you've probably heard these terms. Fixed mindsets are stubborn and pessimistic. Growth mindsets are ready to keep trying no matter what. It's evident which one has greater life-long benefits! Identifying a Fixed or Growth mindset is easy: If your student is quick to gripe over the difficulty of an assignment - that's a Fixed mindset. If your student comes home with a bad grade and a determin

Is there more than one way to be smart? Absolutely! According to a popular theory, there are many types of "intelligence" that a person can have. Some people are strong in one area, and not so strong in the rest. Others are equally strong in many areas. Sometimes, a student can be strong or weak in the same "intelligence", it just depends on the topic! It's possible to increase the strength of any intelligence type, but it's not always needed. When it comes to studying