By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. Whether you’re taking online classes, hybrid classes, or full in-person classes, I suggest you establish a Sunday planning routine. What makes this a planning routine for students, and not just for people in general, is that it includes admin / management …
20 organization tips for online learning
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. The learning piece of online learning and hybrid learning is hard enough. That’s the side of things that’s cognitively demanding, that requires focus and thinking and studying and work. But that learning piece becomes so much harder when you’re not organized …
10 tips for remote learning and hybrid learning for students
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. Remote learning and hybrid learning have their challenges, particularly for students who have never taken online classes. Remote and hybrid learning also require that students more independently manage their work, systems, and discipline. For many students, this is not easy. Below …
How to do hard things: 6 tips for completing difficult tasks
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. This post about how to do hard things is one of many resources in my anti-procrastination series. I’ve included links to the other resources throughout this post and at the end. Every post in this anti-procrastination series begins with a list …
I don’t want to do my work because I don’t care about it: 5 procrastination tips
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. This post is one of many resources in my anti-procrastination series. I’ve included links to the other resources throughout this post and at the end. Each post in this series begins with a list of 6 common reasons most people procrastinate. …
How to make a task less frustrating: 4 anti-procrastination tips
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. This post is part of my anti-procrastination series. For other posts and resources in the series, check out the links I include throughout this post. I begin every post in the series with a list of the 6 common reasons why …
5 summer reading tips for parents and students
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. I’ve covered summer reading tips nearly every summer since I launched my business. Here’s where you can find all my other summer reading tips and resources. In this post (and video!) I outline some of the tips I’ve covered before – …
How to stay smart over the summer: 5 strategies for maintaining cognitive skills
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. I first wrote 5 ways to stay smart over the summer a few years ago. Feel free to start with that original post. This post is an extension of that one. I expand on a few of those tips and add …
4 bad study habits that will wreck your grade
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. Some bad study habits are easy to spot. For example, not studying at all, or studying in front of the T.V. Obviously. But some bad study habits are actually really popular – and at first glance might seem like good study …
Easy tips to stop procrastinating
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. We all procrastinate. I’m an actual executive function expert and even I procrastinate. I try not to, I know how not to, I am aware when I do it, but I still do it. There are reasons we procrastinate. Sure, it’s …