1. Keep study sessions to 45 minutes or less. When you’re tired, shorten the length of your study session. Forty-five minutes of focused thinking is significantly better than 90 minutes of sleepy, unfocused studying. After 45 minutes, take a short active break (active= get up and move) and see if you can handle another 30 …
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In high school, I learned how to hem my own pants (a handy skill considering I’m 5’2”). In fact, I learned many life skills outside basic content areas, skills that smoothed my transition to being a functional adult. Some of these skills I learned from my parents, and some I learned from a since-abandoned class, …
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Calendars help us stay organized, remember important dates, show up on time, and function as reasonably adjusted humans in society. I suggest that students begin using calendars in middle school so that they’re calendar ninjas for high school and adulthood. The sooner you start using a calendar, the better – and if you are waiting …
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