Today Andrew and I were invited to speak with a group of educational psychologists in arguably one of the best school systems in the Greater Boston area. Our host asked us to explain our services and how they fit into their students’ larger educational picture. Speaking with them really underscored the value of [...]
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Teenagers and Organization Often Don’t Mix: How Tutoring Can Help
I write this post from a place of authority – I was once a teenage boy. I remember quite clearly that my backpack was a perpetual disaster area. My binders, no matter how hard I tried, could never seem to stay…well…bound. I wrote homework assignments everywhere except my planner. I made [...]
Toni Morrison’s Love – Essay Composition Lessons
Here are a series of lessons on Toni Morrison’s Love, and the exploration of its central theme. First, find a Livescribe lesson focused on the first half of the book, followed by an online brainstorm, the full essay document, and revision lessons.
Poetry Analysis Brainstorm and Paper
This is a lesson planning a compare and contrast essay on the poetry of Robert Frost and Seamus Heaney, respectively “For Once, Then, Something” (1923) and “Personal Helicon” (1966). The full text of the essay can be found here. Otherwise, here are the individual lesson recordings, conducted by company founder Andrew Magliozzi.
Where the Admissions Magic Happens: Subcommittee vs. Committee
If you have applied to college this admissions season, you must be curious about the path of your application. In this post, we investigate this admission committee process at Harvard and other top colleges.
The Perfect Student: Discipline as Existential Feng Shui
Discipline is an often misunderstood concept. (Though this may surprise you, at no other time in my life did I see discipline misrepresented more than during my four years at Harvard.) Often met with a groan from teenagers and adults alike, discipline tends to signify work, effort, and overall unhappiness. Discipline, however, can also mean [...]
Zen and the Art of Admissions
Though I do a great deal of academic advising and understand the rampant competition for undergraduate and graduate admissions, I am always careful about suggesting activities for the “wrong reasons.” I never want students to participate in activities just for the admissions process; rather, I urge genuine interest and the pursuit of excellence. A stellar [...]
Macbeth Lessons
Before delving into my recorded lessons of Macbeth, I suggest you read the annotated version of the text on my other website, FinalsClub.org, as the annotations therein were written by a Harvard PhD Shakespearean scholar and former adviser of mine. As for my lessons, here is a link to the full document. The brainstorming lesson [...]
Volunteer Tutoring
For the past three years, we have been engaged in a number of pro-bono tutoring projects, most notably running a homework help center at the Graham and Parks School in Cambridge, MA. It’s fantastic and we’ve managed to help a number of kids improve their MCAS scores and prepare for the transition to high school. [...]
Great Gatsby Lessons
This is the first in our series of recorded tutoring lessons. With consent from my student, we recorded our lesson on Fitzgerald’s classic, The Great Gatsby. These lessons include brainstorming, outline planning, and a full version of the essay which can be played back from start to finish with our respective contributions highlighted [...]
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