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6 Low-Pressure Tips for Helping Your Child Decide Where to Apply to College
February 10, 2020If you’re helping your child decide where to apply to college, it can seem like the process is going well as long as you’re not arguing about it. However, it takes more than avoiding conflict with one another to make the best choices. The following tips...
To Help Students Prepare for Assessments, Teach Them This Decision Skill
January 27, 2020Common cognitive biases can prevent students from getting fully prepared for assessments. Teach them how to construct if-then planning statements that will help them resist cognitive biases so they stay on track.
Help Your Child Use Decision Skills to Select a College Major
January 13, 2020Selecting a college major is one decision that can be an especially stressful experience for adolescents and the family members who support them because it can have life-changing consequences. These decision skills can help you work with your child on a...
Strong Executive Function Skills Improve Learning and Decision-Making
December 16, 2019BrainFutures, the first national organization to develop a rubric that assesses the quality of school-based brain fitness interventions, advocates for every school to adopt a program that strengthens students’ executive functioning (EF).
5 YouTube Videos That Will Help Your Students Make Better Decisions
November 1, 2019You don’t have to wait until your students are facing a big decision to introduce Decision Education resources. The videos included in this post expose the hidden influences on our judgments and decisions. Students will learn a handful of strategies from...
Get Up to Speed About Better Decision Making with These 5 Essential Articles
September 23, 2019To get a primer on making better decisions in your personal and professional life, read these essential articles and share them with your colleagues as you start the conversation about introducing Decision Education at your school.
3 Ways to Improve Your Classroom Culture This Year with Decision Education
September 12, 2019No matter what you teach, integrating these simple tips from Decision Education into your everyday classroom culture can improve your students’ study skills and cooperation with one another in ways that will continue to be useful to them in post-...