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Junior Timeline
SeptemberCheck in with your guidance counselor to review a list of schools that offer your degree/major.Plan college visitsAttend a college fairOctoberOctober 16 PSAT test date. Most schools will offer this during the school day/week.NovemberBegin studying...
Senior Timeline
SeptemberCheck in with your guidance counselor to review your final list of schools and ensure your transcripts are accurate. Plan and attend your final college visitsSeptember 6 is your registration deadline for the October 5th SAT testSeptember 20th is...
Curiosity Over Control: Productive Ways to Support Your Child’s Homework Habits
Parenting adolescents and teens is an exercise in inconsistencies. On one hand they need structure and support because their schoolwork and their emotional life are more complex than it was when they were elementary-aged. Yet on the other hand they need a...
AD/HD Why the Lack of Motivation
In the sports world, a coach sets up a practice and workout schedule that keeps an athlete motivated. The coach might cheer and cajole (and in unfortunate cases yell) when an athlete’s energy flags. If an athlete doesn’t want to come to practice, the coach...
The Summer Learning Box has Arrived!
What is a Summer Learning Box?Here at New England Tutors, we recognize that although we would love all students to continue their tutoring and learning through the summer months, for some families it is not practical due to scheduling conflicts, time...
Look Past the Symptoms
Deficient executive skills, anxiety and depression may be signs of AD/HD “More than meets the eye.” This expression is familiar to parents, educators and physicians who know too well that there is often more to a situation than what they see on the...
Gen Z Success Relies on Executive Skills
The majority of today’s school-age students belong to the Gen Z population, those born between 1995 and 2010. They have been defined as the largest generation in the U.S. In fact, come 2020 they will represent 40% of the population. The Internet has always...
Deficient EF skills and Intelligence are not mutually Exclusive
Jamie Barber, Executive Skills Coach, New England Tutors According to researchers Friedman, et al. in their article “Not All Executive Functions are Related to Intelligence,” the executive functions of planning, decision-making, and...
Distracted Classrooms: We All Suffer the Consequences
I wrote a happy ending to this piece and filed it to my editor. Julia Lurie, author, in the July/August 2017 Issue of Mother Jones. When I read that, I knew what was coming. The article, Children of the Opioid Epidemic Are Flooding Foster Homes. America Is Turning a...
Significant Challenges in Education
This is the second in a series of blogs on some significant issues in education in the US. It is about the “teacher shortage” in the US. Why did I put that in quotes? Well, because if you look at the literature and follow the media, and if you talk to teachers and to...
