Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. If you’re a student, working over the summer is a great way to earn money, make connections, build skills, and enjoy your school break doing something other than sitting around. But if you’re a student with ADHD, working over the summer can …
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. The ability to focus is at the core of nearly everything you’re asked to do in school. You can’t read a book if you can’t focus. You can’t follow along with a science lecture if you can’t focus. You can’t solve …
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. Being a disorganized student makes school so much harder than it needs to be. School is hard enough, is it not? But it gets so much more difficult when you can’t find your notes to study from, you turn in your …
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. The following post contains 24 productivity tips for students. They all apply to students in high school and college, but many can also increase the productivity of students in middle school. Students spend nearly seven hours a day in classes. After …
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. There are multiple ways to organize school materials using binders, notebooks, folders, and accordion files. This guide will teach you how to organize a school binder. It also includes tips for students with ADHD. The binder set-up I teach below can …
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. This is a post full of tips for using a calendar over the summer. Calendars help us stay organized, remember important dates, show up on time, and function as reasonably adjusted humans in society. Students should begin using calendars in middle …
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. In high school, I learned how to hem my own pants (a handy skill considering I’m 5’2”). In fact, I learned many life skills outside basic content areas, skills that smoothed my transition to being a functional adult. Some of these …
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. Various sources suggest that the average person makes around 35,000 decisions a day. That’s bananas. While the majority of our daily decisions are minor, such as choosing what to wear or what to eat, we occasionally face bigger decisions that have …
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. You’re sitting in class, paying attention (or not), and all of a sudden you have no idea what the teacher is saying. Or you’re doing your homework at home, and it hits you that you’re totally confused about the material. It …
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. This tutorial offers 8 goal-setting tips for students, although many of the tips are solid strategies for goal-setting in general – for anyone. Goal-setting is all the rage around the new year, but I think most of that is simply traditional …