Changing the World Starts Today: Introducing My MoteNote!
My MoteNote: A Motivational Notebook & Student Planner designed to support teens
executive functioning and emotional intelligence.
My MoteNote: A Motivational Notebook & Student Planner designed to support teens
executive functioning and emotional intelligence.
Screen time is a major battle during the school year, and summer makes it worse. You can no longer tell your child to finish his homework before playing a video game. And a 1-hour computer time limit seems really short without school and sports taking up most of the day. Is technology-free fun even possible?…
Read MoreQuestioning Your Motivation? What Motivates You? This question will continually crop up throughout your life and will begin to define you and your successes. Motivation is at the root of it all. More specifically, intrinsic motivators (personal or internal things that motivate you) have been shown to hold lasting results, whereas external motivators (things outside…
Read MorePerhaps you made News Year’s Resolutions to exercise or eat more vegetables — in essence, to keep your body healthy. Or maybe you would like to improve your memory. Those are great goals… but they’re not enough. You also need to keep your brain healthy. Just like a muscle, your brain needs nourishment and activity to…
Read MoreThe emotions of your brain You text to connect, we all do. But did you know that when you text, your brain actually gets a positive chemical response? Science continually points out how important direct human connection is, even on social media. When people in stressful situations connect with family and friends in person or…
Read MoreCombating Teen Anxiety By: Tori O’Brien With more pressure than ever to perform and social media making every move public, students’ anxiety levels have risen significantly over the last decade. Studies show that up to 10% of kindergarten-aged children suffer from an anxiety disorder. This rate that jumps to more than 15% for high school…
Read MoreTeaching Students How to Learn From Failure By Cynthia O’Brien Can students really learn from failure? It’s that time of year again — the awards assembly. As I sit at my desk recounting the achievements of my students and filling out certificates, it dawns on me that I have some students who won’t be receiving…
Read MoreOnline Tutoring – Pros and Cons By: Tori O’Brien The latest trend in academia seems to be online tutoring. With new interactive platforms like Skype, Google Hangouts, online whiteboards, Google Docs, etc. connecting with students via the Internet is easy and convenient. But, is online tutoring worth it? Can it be as good as in person…
Read MoreTech Can Be A Friend By: Tori O’Brien Awhile back, we posted in our blog (here) about the debate regarding using technology as a learning tool and the suggested usage guidelines by the AAP (American Academy of Pediatrics). You can find that post here. The AAP usage suggestion seemed a bit daunting (none for children under the age…
Read MoreSAT Versus ACT: What’s going on? By Joe Cook Recent News: As many of you have already been informed, the Colorado Department of Education voted to change the official test given to Colorado high schoolers from the ACT to the SAT (Find the Official Announcement HERE). The initial plan was for the SAT to…
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