Parents understandably wonder if I work with: (1) those who have not gone to college or (2) started but stopped college and are (2a) either unsure whether they will return to college or (2b) know they will not go back to college or (2c) would go back to college or further non-traditional training but only after sorting out […]
Read MoreInside the new middle school math crisis The Pandemic is over…. I think! I have seen first hand the education disaster that has unfolded during the pandemic. There are plenty of students who have been affected but no where more than in math education. Most of the students that our team has worked with during […]
Read MoreI have been running The Learning Consultants since the start of the century. Most of my work has been with Connecticut families along the Shoreline and increasingly with those in Fairfield County. During the 2000s, my work consisted primarily of helping students get ready for college. Academic tutoring (our Student Mastery program), test prep (our […]
Read MoreThe Learning Consultants has been helping children deal with their emotional well being for many years. Early on, I wrote that our mission was “to help children reach their potential.” I left out “academic” potential purposely. I would elaborate that I wanted to help our children-clients reach their human potential. If pressed further, I would […]
Read MoreAs we have been immersed in college counseling the last few years, we have also been immersed in helping students transfer colleges. Several factors have radically increased the desire for freshman (and some sophomores) to either transfer or explore transferring. 1.) The Pandemic There is the obvious tangible reason. Families made college choices without engaging […]
Read More“We are not really being taught,” Alexa began. The teacher shows us videos. We are supposed to learn on our own and then work together in class. The teacher is supposed to answer questions but we now all think that she doesn’t really know the subject.” Twenty years ago, when I started The Learning Consultants, […]
Read MoreI wrote Motive Your Son a decade ago. I had created The Learning Consultants and its Student Mastery Program with the goal of training students in our Shoreline, CT area on how to be good students. I soon discovered that a disproportionate amount of motivational work within the Student Mastery framework was with boys. To be clear, […]
Read More“I am writing my college essay in English class.” So said another student we were working with for college counseling. Most English teachers do not know the difference between a well written essay for English class and an effective college admissions essay. (With the notable exception of Jennifer Burke, the amazing English teacher at Lyme-Old […]
Read MoreLuke is a 6th year senior at UCONN. He has switched colleges twice and majors three times. His situation is not that much of an outlier. Every day, our college counseling calls include college transfer calls and quite often those calls relate to college major/career interests. 15 years ago, The Learning Consultants built its career counseling […]
Read MoreI do not automatically suggest college as the only post high school alternative. I was recently meeting with a family from Essex, Connecticut and extolling the virtues of exploring the trades (plumbing in particular) and the military for their son who had straight Ds in high school. So to be clear, I am not someone […]
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