Motivate Your Son The High School to College (or not) to Career Program We have formalized our process that has led to the success of thousands of teen boys through the years of running The Learning Consultants. We have done so because we are now working as much with students across the country – […]
Read MoreThere are some preliminary studies confirming a plethora of anecdotal accounts that our children’s educational gaps due to the pandemic are serious. During the fall, I taught SAT classes in our Old Saybrook office and virtually to high school students across Connecticut. I saw the gaps immediately. Numerous students said “we didn’t really learn much […]
Read MoreThere is a hard truth about life: going through challenges – successfully – elevates us. We all wish we did not have the challenge and could just get elevated. But that is not how life generally works. Years ago, I worked with a member of one of America’s wealthiest and most prominent families. He […]
Read More“David left feeling so much better!” Kristen, David’s mother, exclaimed. “And now I feel so much better too.” David had been listless. He was going through the motions at school. He was naturally bright and thought “pandemic school was a joke.” So he had not really worked all that hard since March 2020. As the […]
Read MoreAt the Learning Consultants, our approach to writing reminds me of the old Chinese proverb, “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.” Similarly, “Correct a student’s essay, and you help them get a better grade. Teach a student how […]
Read MoreWe have been helping the emotional development of young adults since our inception in the early 2000s. Jean Card, our lead Student Mastery coach, has created an Academic Therapy framework that has helped our students in flourish both academically and emotionally. My work – while ostensibly on all the concrete areas of college counseling, […]
Read MoreTip #3 Be authentic! This might sound cliched, but it’s useful advice for students writing their college essays. It’s much easier to write about yourself when you’re not trying to be someone else. I’ve been especially reminded of this wisdom over the past few months as I work with twins from Essex, CT on their […]
Read MoreTip #2 “I don’t know what to write about!” This is the number one source of frustration for students starting their college essays. A typical scenario occurred last week with one of my students from Madison, CT. She struggled to choose between two different essays. One, she really liked, but feared it wasn’t “traditional” enough. […]
Read More“That’s part of my brand.” So said a Harvard student to my daughter as he was trying to woo her with his impressive credentials. He was a clown but he was stating some part of the truth. I’ve grown away from the prestige seeker I once was. The self-esteem that seems attached to name […]
Read More“I am going to be an influencer.” So said Jillian, a student from Old Lyme Connecticut who attends Lyme-Old Lyme High School. Since I provide college-career counseling in the new world of work, I did not scoff at Jillian. Instagram influencers exist. Some Instagram influencers earn their living as influencers. Some earn a […]
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