- How to improve SAT test scores: Attack the Question!
- Do Smartphones make students dumb? Parents, how to teach your children to avoid distractions & use the cell phone off button
- How Parents and Teachers can use Bloom's Taxonomy to engage student learning & curiosity
- Time Travel pt 2: Navigating the Now & the Later
- Time management is Time Travel, pt 1: Ben Franklin & Managing the Now
- Getting Gritty: can academic "grit" be taught or is it a personality type like John Wayne?
- Teach don't preach pt 2: Confirmation Bias & the unintented teacher preacher
- Is your student an extrinsic or intrinsic learner? And how to bring out the best in each to overcome the other
- Teach don't preach: politicizing the classroom is not just wrong, it's bad teaching
- Common Core Crazy? Making sense of the viral common core math rounding problem
- 3.14: A Pi day celebration from a math idiot
- Understanding and Overcoming Procrastination: a presentation by Michael Bromley
- How to know if your student is really learning: "If you can't teach it you don't know it"
- Five tips on how to "study better" for an exam: extending memorization for brain memory and recall
- Laptop, Tablet, or Desktop? Google Docs or Office 365? Which technology is best for high school and college?
- Student web searches on why I have to do homework & how a misguided SEO program taught us a lot about students
- Dan Bozzuto on Effective Teaching, Learning & Standardized Tests: Student Success Podcast no. 27
- ADD: a reminder for parents what "Attention Deficit" really means
- Sleepers Awake: a celebration of J. Reilly Lewis, master organist, conductor & educator
- Deconstructing Graduation Day: Administrators, "The Road Not Taken" Speeches & Other Regrets
- Mike Cahir on Why Shakespeare Matters & How Parents Can Help Their Child Learn & Enjoy Shakespeare: Student Success Podcast no. 26
- Procrastination, values, and connecting long term goals to short term choices
- How can I improve my essay grades? Students, writing is drafting
- Ancient advice from Epictetus for students and parents: want what you can, not just what you want (setting realistic expectations)
- Parents & Teens Beware: like diamonds & tattoos, social media posts are forever
- A student discovers that she actually can learn the quadratic formula! (with a little help from the A+ Club)
- First Presidential Auto on Display on National Mall: Taft Biographer Michael Bromley Joins Celebration of Historic Vehicles in "Cars at the Capital" Event
- A Successful Assessment pt 3: how to take a test (or, reading instructions & not running out of time)
- A Successful Assessment pt 2: how to prepare for a test (or learning all along not just cramming)
- A Successful Assessment pt 1: how to know what will be on the test (or identifying teacher expectations)
- A Successful Assessment: how to approach a test (or why doesn't my child test well?)
- A Student & Her Mom Don't See Eye-to-Eye on Her School Work
- Beating back procrastination part 2: smoothing out your workflow
- Beating back procrastination part 1: start now and finish later
- Help for students struggling with math: "guided" v "independent" practice
- Megan Rocks! How the A+ Club assignments and grades updates help students and parents find academic success: Student Success Podcast no. 25
- Mentoring students is an all-time thing: mentoring is not just an occasional conversation with a guidance counselor or mentor
- Tips for Teachers: a quick & easy voice narrator for reading digital text out load
- Procrastinating in class: is classroom behavior a form of procrastination?
- What do grades measure, anyway? How to make sense of grades and student learning
- Tips for Teachers: How to use OneNote for total organization and teacher efficiency
- Introducing "Tips for Teachers": building efficiencies to free you to teach (and not waste so much time doing everything else)
- Parenting Procrastinators
- How teachers can use WordPress blogging to enhance student engagement
- What's your student's emotional IQ? Maturity, Emotional Intelligence & Salesmanship
- Mentoring students for a lifetime of success
- Procrastination Primer Part 2: tools & strategies on how to avoid & overcome procrastination (podcast no. 24)
- Learning for the long term: actual content retention versus cramming for the test
- "I don't test well" -- or do you just not prepare enough?
- Procrastination Primer Part 1: procrastination awareness - what is it & how does it operate? (podcast no. 23)
- The Late Work Game: teachers, do you want missing work, late work -- or no work at all?
- Five Steps for Better Grades: Student Success Podcast no. 21
- Are you an overly-focused person? how to get more than one thing done at a time
- The Path Taken: teachers, are you just creating student shortcuts?
- Excuses, excuses, excuses: how students can get around their own barriers
- Are you obstacle-minded or a problem solver? Goal setting & fixing mistakes
- Teachers and the 80/20 rule: attending to the wrong clients?
- How to raise your SAT score by 50 points -- now
- Teaching or learning pt 2: textooks are for teaching or for learning?
- Teaching or learning: teachers, which would you prefer? If you want it, sell it!
- Building up the house: in-school student oversight with Gabriella Carbone
- Next time your kids says, "summer's so boring..." remind them why they actually enjoy school
- The Best Computers for College: desktop, laptop or tablet? PC or Mac? pt 2
- Chicken bones & concientiousness: worrying about what you need to do for better grades
- Parents, you rock!
- Don't procrastinate, Prioritize! Prioritization v. Procrastination
- What's a hat worth? Why customer service has no price
- High school students getting smarter, or high schools getting easier?
- AP Exams! Are these classes really all that "advanced"?
- Encouragement from Mischa Beckett: empowering yourself & your college experience
- Distractions & procrastination: can you pass the marshmallow test?
- Breaking the Technology Barrier
- Teaching it twice: ask your teachers to explain it again & in a different way
- Liddy Allee-Coyle on teaching as a two-way street: the power of honesty & respect for students
- Self-advocacy & the missing work trap: why so many zeroes?
- Procrastinating the steps: how to follow instructions when you just want to rush through it
- How do I get better grades? Five easy steps to improve your grades
- Should v. Could: setting parent expectations without judgement
- Procrastinating on time: is your work as good as it could be? How to will yourself to finishing completely
- Dr. Jonathan Plucker: Excellence Gaps and the national imperative for equity AND excellence
- Dr. Procrastination: Tim Pychyl featured on Ottawa TV
- Winning over Procrastination: real student achievements
- Procrastination destroys
- Why do students cheat? Procrastination and cheating
- Scaffolding students out of procrastination: teacher interview with Mike Cahir
- 3rd Quarter blues: beware procrastination payback time
- Unpuzzling Procrastination: student Interview with Dr. Timothy A. Pychyl
- Why homework matters: top five (5) reasons you probably should do your homework
- Three Simple Ways to Make Memorization Easier from The A+ Club
- Real solutions for procrastination from Dr. Timothy A. Pychyl, part 2
- Real solutions for procrastination from Dr. Timothy A. Pychyl, part 1
- Feeling like it: how to get your homework done even when you don't feel like it
- How to stop procrastination: Ten (10) tips for getting your work done
- Agenda books and schools: making good little secretaries
- Music for the classroom: pedagogy from music lessons with Chris Bromley
- How to avoid procrastination: getting the urge (and not relying on it)
- Procrastinator Panic: is your brain rewarding putting it off?
- How to Turn a Bad Report Card Into a Learning Experience
- What do teachers really want?
- Speaking math constantly with Joy Ferrante
- Gone phishing?
- Communicating dedication & success with Julian Oribe
- The Nature of Procrastination & Helping Students Achieve Their Goals
- "Roam schooling" & online tutoring: learning without barriers?
- Math success: believe you can achieve with Okera Hawkins
- Teachers are people, too (sort of) & how you should take advantage of it
- Kids Learn to Advocate & Achieve With A+ Club Online Tutoring Services
- No B.S. from J.P.: what makes a good teacher?
- Arguing over grades?
- Finally, a buyers market for college
- Feeding back: constant, comprehensive & positive feedback
- Do your grades Spring forward or Fall back?
- Parenting for Student Success with Dr. Kimberly Bradley
- Forecast cloudy
- Talent on the Sidelines: the Excellence Gap with Dr. Jonathan Plucker
- The “Excellence Gap”: income & race disparities persist
- Teacher advice: asking the question with Mike Cahir
- Bundle this! Bloatware, viruses and other computer pests
- Goal Setting by Nick Goodall
- Learning to learn & other great advice from two high school graduates
- A little background & who we are
- Procrastinators unite!
- Gaby's dinosaur tree
- Jobs galore! (... if you got edumacation)
- Due consideration, and not just a syllabus
- Lather, rinse, repeat... Gaming on & on
- What? I have to pay every month for a computer program...?
- Cheating, Plagiarizing & Learning
- Parents, helicopters & angry kids: how to successfully manage a teen's academic struggles
- Prior Knowlege (PK), relevancy & teacher expectations
- Sitting in on the "Straight Talk" blog
- Email Purgatory
- SAT Time!
- Tech proficiency: got yours?
- College bound: desktop, laptop or tablet? PC or Mac?
- What about the students?
- Student Success Podcast
- The Learning Process
Helping middle & high school students and parents find academic success: tutoring, coaching & mentoring from the A+ Club