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Posts filed under: Mentoring

Navigating through the academic journey is akin to embarking on a complex expedition. Every student, no matter how brilliant, will at times face crossroads, challenging terrains, or even occasional setbacks. These moments, although daunting, are integral to the holistic growth...
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Teddy was the gentle giant type: tall and a bit pale, soft all around, though he did play a fairly serious role on the lacrosse team. His curly hair only slightly covered the typical awkward teenage acne. His face generally...
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Alex What do you think some challenges are that parents are facing today with generating a good college list? I’m asking specifically about how the Pandemic has shaped this process.  Rana During the pandemic, things have been a little more...
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Alex What’s a piece of advice that you would give a high school freshman as far as leading up to that meeting? What can they do throughout their sort of high school career to best prepare themselves for that meeting...
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Alex I think the gap year programs are highly sort of underutilized. What do you think about the gap year program?  Rana I think the gap year program is right for a lot of kids. I think sometimes parents are...
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Alex I’m joined today by Rana Slosberg. In addition to a Bachelor of Science degree in systems engineering from New York University, Rana has an independent educational consultant certificate from University of California, Irvine. She established her organization, Slosberg College...
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Alex What do you think the future of education looks like for students with anxiety? And how has the global pandemic sort of changed that?  Ellen It’s really hard for me to know exactly how the global pandemic has changed...
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Alex Now, you mentioned there the kids with sort of slower processing speeds and results of anxiety with that, and then the kids with higher processing speeds and different forms of anxiety with that. What are the treatments look like?...
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Alex So your other book, Straight Talk About Psychological Testing for Kids, does a deep dive on how psychological testing works and how parents can use it to help their kids. Could you talk about this a little bit? Specifically,...
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Alex When our children are struggling with anxiety or managing learning disabilities, it can feel instinctual as parents and caregivers to jump in and fix it, to tell them it’s fine, and to use the skills we have as adults...
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