Our Courses
Strategic & Tactical Planning for Success
Our courses are facilitated, not instructed. We believe that every person can be a star – and we want to help you become that star. We can’t do it for you, but we’ll be your partner every step of the way, offering positive feedback that is improvement-focused, and helping you develop your own vision and identity.
In our courses, you will have the chance to work in productive teams, accomplish learning in class and on your own, and engage in self-reflection.
There are no tests in these classes because reciting “what’s in the book” isn’t valuable to us! What we value is strengthening your skills in reading, writing, and discussion, both individually and in a team. This will help you develop as a critical thinker.
These courses are going to ask a lot of you. They’re designed to help you learn how to improve academic performance. They’re demanding and will challenge you – and you’ll discover that you can do more than you ever thought you could. These courses are not easy, but require commitment, self-discipline, and dedication – and we’ll help you step up those skills.
Achieving Academic Success: Full Course
Achieving Academic Success: Full Course is a 4-week online course with learning both in class and on your own. It’s a challenging and supportive course that will help you become a master learner who carries out your life vision on a path of continuous growth. This is where you will learn how to improve academic performance.
The tools you’ll get in this course will help you identify your life vision and give you ownership of the quality of your life. You’ll grow your skills in time management, coping, problem solving, learning,
reading, and teamwork. You will learn to use past challenges as stepping stones for success as you develop an improvement mindset.
Participants in this course can shift their internal voice from being self-critical to having a positive outlook seeking improved performance. You will leave believing you have what it takes to adapt to change and to create and express your personal life vision.
Modules in this course include:
- Performing like a Star
- Becoming a Master Learner
- Your Past Doesn’t Define Your Future
- Self-Assessment: The Engine for Self-Growth
- Time, Planning, and Productivity
- Methodologies: Unlocking Process Knowledge
- Visioning Your Future
- Performing in Teams and within a Community
- Performing When Being Evaluated
- Reading for Learning
- Metacognition: Thinking about My Thinking
- Using Failure as a Stepping Stone for Success
- Choosing and Using Mentors Effectively
- My Time to Shine
- Shifting from Extrinsic to Intrinsic Motivation
All course materials are provided for participants. Course size 20-40 participants.
Achieving Academic Success: Intensive Short Courses
Achieving Academic Success is available in a two-part series of two, 9-day intensive blocks. These courses are offered during school breaks with an hour of class online and 3-5 hours of independent work each day. Like the Full Course, these Short Courses will help you improve academic performance.
Achieving Academic Success Part 1 creates a strong foundation for academic skills and starts powerful mindset shifts. You’ll learn how to achieve peak performance: become a master learner by improving your reading for learning, strengthening problem solving, and developing an improvement mindset. Because a person’s past does not define their future, you’ll explore past failures as stepping stones for success.
Modules in Part 1 include:
- Performing like a Star
- Becoming a Master Learner
- Reading for Learning
- Your Past Doesn’t Define Your Future
- Methodologies: Unlocking Process Knowledge
- Self-Assessment: The Engine for Self-Growth
- Using Failure as a Stepping Stone for Success
All course materials are provided for participants. Course size 10-40 participants.
Modules in Part 2 include:
Achieving Academic Success Part 2 builds on the learning in Part 1 to advance mindset shifts. You’ll strengthen your time management, teamwork skills, ability to perform when being tested, thinking about your thinking, and use of mentors. As you envision your future, you’ll shift from relying on others to motivate you to motivating yourself.
- Time, Planning, and Productivity
- Visioning Your Future
- Performing in Teams and within a Community
- Performing When Being Evaluated
- Metacognition: Thinking about My Thinking
- Choosing and Using Mentors Effectively
- My Time to Shine
- Shifting from Extrinsic to Intrinsic Motivation
All course materials are provided for participants. Course size 10-40 participants.
full course
$ 495
Course fee
4-week online course with learning both in a class and on your own.
Do you know a group that would like to experience this course as a 5-day face-to-face experience or a 16-session seminar? They can sponsor a course!
- Starting July 15, Enroll by July 14
2-part series
$ 295
Course fee for each part
Each part is a 9-day online course with learning both in class and on your own. This course is often offered when school is out of session, like fall, winter, spring, or summer break.
- Part 1: July 6, Enroll by July 5
- Part 1: September 14, Enroll by September 13
There is a minimum course enrollment that must be met for us to hold each course.
See our course cancellation policy. Learn more in a course overview webinar! Register here.
Crushing Math
This 4-week course includes 9 facilitated 90-minute class sessions and a math learning program that checks on what you know and coaches you to learn what you’re ready to study next.
We’ll teach you 14 Steps for Mastering Math that you can apply to really learning every math topic so that the learning sticks, and you get better at learning the next topic. This course includes online math support and online math tutoring during the whole course.
Unlike other prep courses for GED, SAT, or college math placement that jump straight into memorizing hard concepts without building your skills to master them, we teach math and learning math at the same time, so that you get better at learning, get better at learning math, and build your confidence with math – all at once.
We know you’ve got plans for your life – to complete high school, to go to college, or to invest your tuition dollars on new learning instead of math courses you already took. Don’t let a math test hold you back from your dreams.
Modules in this class include:
- Performing Like a Star
- Becoming a Master Learner
- Your Math Past Doesn’t Define Your Math Future
- Assessment: The Engine of Self-Growth
- Time, Planning, and Productivity
- 14 Steps to Academic Success in Learning Math
- Mathematical Problem Solving
- Test-taking workshop
Plus you can drop in to the facilitator’s office hours for online math tutoring help with any topics where you get stuck. This is an excellent source of online math support!
All course materials are provided for participants. Course size 10-40 participants.
Crushing Math
$ 295
Course fee
4-week online course with learning both in a class and on your own. Tell us about your next math exam on the enrollment page.
Do you know a group that would like to experience this course? They can sponsor a course! Connect by contacting us!
- Starting July 15, Enroll by July 14
- Starting September 23, Enroll by September 22
There is a minimum course enrollment that must be met for us to hold each course.
See our course cancellation policy. Learn more in a course overview webinar! Register here.