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I was a freshman in college when study skills radically changed my life. I went from struggling in K-12 to “straight As” in college. About six weeks after my first semester of college success, however, I was suddenly overcome with a deep, visceral ANGER. “Why didn’t someone teach me how to learn before!?” I was mentally…
Brain-First Learning for an AI World Middle School Study Skills for Middle School: The Executive Function Curriculum The skills that look like motivation problems aren’t. They’re executive function gaps — and SOAR® makes the invisible visible. The Middle School Moment Middle school changes the rules before students know how to manage them Sixth grade changes…
AI is changing everything. Except how the brain learns. Reading, focusing, and thinking… these capacities have a name schools use but rarely explain: executive function. We build it — the way the brain was designed to learn. Trusted in 5,100+ schools across 53 countries. Most learning help drills the symptom. We teach the brain circuit…
If reading has felt heavy in your home, this is your reframe. When your child or teen reads a word “wrong,” your first instinct is to correct it. That’s a loving instinct — and it’s also the moment when the most useful information a reading session can give you disappears. Because every reading “mistake” is…
If your child is in reading remediation and you’ve started to wonder whether it’s actually helping — you’re not imagining it. You’ve watched them sit through more drills, more worksheets, more phonics practice. Maybe they’ve been pulled out of the parts of school they actually love. And the progress is still slow. Or invisible. Or…
“I am convinced that a ‘good’ teacher is a ‘self-abuser’ teacher!!” My grad-school professor said this in class one day. He was lamenting that his wife, a kindergarten teacher, had been on leave for two years to have their two children (they lived in Canada, with generous maternity leave). He specialized in reading development and…
The following article was first published in 2021, during the thick of the pandemic. We wanted to share this article again because the learning value of digital media still remains true to this day! We are both educators, but you can stick a fork in us… we’re DONE! We’ve always said that we could never…
Are you a teacher or administrator looking for more support from your peers and/or parents? After 20+ years, we’ve learned some very helpful strategies for getting support from the majority of your community! We’ve created this video (below) to help you: How to Get Teachers & Parents On Board with SOAR®
Research consistently confirms there are two critical ways to raise test scores on standardized tests: Build “cognitive flexibility” with metacognitive strategies.1 If students don’t have problem-solving strategies for learning content, well… they won’t learn it! Obviously. Teach the curriculum, not “to the test.” Teaching “to the test” –also known as “item teaching”– actually lowers test scores; it…
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