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Executive Functioning

Resilience and Critical Thinking

At Staying Ahead of the Game, we firmly believe that habits and systems driven by executive functioning skill research can help any student thrive in

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Promoting Self-Regulation at Home

One of the most challenging components of high school is the transition of social-emotional demands. Students must navigate more complex academic demands, social relationships, and

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How to Take a Break

As we have discussed in our blog and newsletter numerous times, adequate break time is essential to staving off burnout and maintaining a sustainable output

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A System for Learning How to Learn

One of the most difficult attributes required to be an effective student is learning how to learn. As nebulous as that attribute sounds, it’s not

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How to Keep Technology Helpful

The educational environment is totally different today than it was twenty, ten, or even five years ago. Most parents and teachers didn’t grow up in

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Mental Health during Exams

As students prepare to face the academic decathlon called midterms, we wanted to compile our best tips for maintaining one’s mental health during the exam

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5 Keys to Cumulative Exams

It’s December. As everyone else focuses on holiday preparations and end of year meetings, students only have one thing on their minds: midterms.  Midterms (or

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Cultivating Curiousity

Helping students become capable and confident beyond the parameters of the classroom is central to our mission. To help with this mission, we often organize

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How Successful Students Sleep

High school students are overworked. Starting their day at 7:30 or earlier, they spend eight hours or more in the classroom, and attend one or

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Annotating vs. Underlining

Part of high school (or some more competitive middle school programs) is learning how to read. By this, we don’t mean learning how to sound

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Break Time

Breaks get a bad wrap. Whether it’s the never quit mentality instilled in our kids through sports or the workaholic tendencies of many seemingly admirable

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Summer Reading

Summer reading seemed like such an easy feat several months ago, as finals week turned into summer break. Read a book and write an essay,

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