Attention Parents: August is here, get ready for school…

I will retell a story from a few years back.

Vijay was a student from East Lyme, Connecticut.  He was moderately ambitious. But he had something equally valuable: parents with a plan.

They had heard of The Learning Consultants through our years of helping East Lyme Students and also through our work with SCCS.  They knew that when it comes to custom-creating plans to help students, The Learning Consultants is unmatched in Shoreline CT.

That plan was simple in concept and powerful in execution. They would use every summer, intentionally, to build his skills.

The summer before freshman year, we focused on foundational study skills. We used his actual summer reading and assignments to strengthen his reading comprehension, sharpen his writing, and reinforce his math foundation.

The summer before sophomore year, we shifted focus heavily toward math. The goal was specific: get him genuinely ready for precalculus.

By the summer before junior year, Vijay had identified something on his own: he wanted serious SAT preparation because he was now self-motivated.

We added college counseling.

Vijay went to Harvard. He then went to Wall Street. He became a Managing Director at a top firm.

The Lesson Hasn’t Changed
We worked with Vijay eighteen years ago. The world he graduated into looks different from the one today’s students will face. The stakes, if anything, are higher now.

But the core lesson remains exactly what it was then.

The summer is the single greatest skill-building opportunity in a student’s academic career — and it is almost universally wasted.

Most students in East Lyme, Old Lyme, Guilford, Madison, Old Saybrook, Essex, and across Connecticut spend their summers in one of two ways: either completely unstructured, or packed with activities that are enjoyable but not developmental. Neither builds the academic and professional foundation that separates good students from exceptional ones.

Contact us now to discuss how your child can be helped.