If you suffer from brain fog, I get it. It’s not fun. If your child does, well, yikes. Our kids should not be suffering like this. And bottom line, if we take a bit of time, we can make this right. As someone who has studied health and wellness (for fun and for necessity), becam...

I was never going to be a lifer. When I made the decision to leave my job in my fourth year of teaching, in the public school system, I was pulled aside by many. I heard things like: “Are you sure?”“What will you do?”“Why would you leave? This is the year you get tenure!”
“I thought you were a li...

So, you’re building up a tutoring business. Congratulations! You’ve gotten the courage to start sharing with people that this is what you do. And you’re excited. Sweet! Maybe you listened to my free 3-Part Audio Class on How To Start a Successful & Profitable Tutoring Business and put some of t...

I once had a tutoring student, he was in sixth grade and man, sluggish didn’t begin to describe him. Let’s call him Billy. Billy made it about 15 minutes into the one-on-one tutoring session, diving into his reading and writing skills, and to say it wasn’t going well would be an unde...

So, we are in a new era. An era where artificial intelligence is just beginning to make a daily impact on our lives. Our children have grown up knowing this was possible while my generation watched movies like Terminator and thought it possible but weeellllll… It was still a bit...

SO, WHY ARE THE MAJORITY OF STUDENTS LEARNING EARLY ON TO HATE SCHOOL? That’s where we ended Part 2 of this series and where we dive right back into now. If you missed the first part of this write-up, you may want to head there now. It’s worth your time. In 2001, when I began tea...

  In Part 1 of this three-part series, we saw that teachers weren’t too thrilled with the current educational status quo, not just in the States, but also across the pond. And when we closed the lid on Part 1, we did so with a sneak-peek of the scores of our nation, the United States, ...

Lately (and for more than a decade now) there have been a host of examples of teachers utterly dissatisfied with the public school system. Teacher of the Year, Kim Cook, who was given an unsatisfactory grade from her school principal for one, a teacher who gave his video resignati...

The best thing I can share with you, as we dive into our second month together, is my personal mantra. A mantra I just started this year, at the time of writing these 52 Life Lessons and it all stemmed from an amazing book I read. A book I’ll share below. My new mantra is simple. It’s...

This is a continuation of the three-part series. For best results, start with Step 1 then move onto Step 2. And don’t forget to implement what you learn! In Step 1 of the P.O.P. Method, we discovered just how important the PERSON is who sits in front of you during a tutoring session...