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More Time Strategies for College Students
Once students understand why time management matters, the next step is learning how to practice it. This article shares simple, repeatable strategies such as breaking assignments into smaller steps, using focused study intervals, and reflecting weekly to strengthen awareness and build routines that support college success.
Beyond the Bell: Time Strategies for College
In high school, the bell structures the day. In college, students must build that structure themselves. This post explains why time management feels harder in college and how simple weekly planning habits strengthen confidence, performance, and persistence.
When College Gets Real: The First-Year Spring Semester
After the excitement of fall fades, the spring semester brings new academic demands and emotional challenges for first-year students. Understanding why this shift happens and how to prepare can make the difference between burnout and confidence.
Start Strong This Spring Semester
Spring semester is a reset point for many college students. Whether returning to campus or starting fresh after transferring, a strong start often depends on early connection and intentional use of campus resources. This post explores how social connection and academic engagement work together to support student success.
How Students Can Use Winter Break to Reset for the Spring Semester
Winter break offers students a much-needed pause to rest, reflect, and reset after a demanding fall semester. With intention, this time can help students regain energy, build simple habits, and enter the spring semester more confident and prepared.
Conversations with College Students During Winter Break
Winter break offers a chance to reconnect with your college student and create space for honest conversations. With the right timing and open curiosity, small moments can lead to meaningful insights about their academic, social, and personal growth.
Finish Strong!
A helpful guide for parents and supporters as first-year students enter the final stretch of the semester. Learn how to encourage the habits and routines that strengthen confidence, readiness, and academic success.
The Power of Play
Play is powerful. It teaches problem-solving, patience, and the confidence to try again after a mistake. I learned many of these lessons through games long before I realized they were lessons at all. From adding points in Uno to plotting strategy in Battleship, games shaped how I think, plan, and learn.
College Signing Day!
College Signing Day is a BIG deal. Celebrate students’ commitment to a college degree and then support them on their journey.
Mind over mountains
What would you share with undergraduate students if you had 18 minutes? I offer up the importance of traversing the mountains in our minds that can hold us back
Road Trip in Rearview
Recently back from a 1250+ mile road trip in which I played Success Prints Crash Course® with educators and students. Students loved that the game introduces them to the social side of college and forces them to think strategically about how to balance their time between academics and social life.
Dream out loud!
This simple phrase invites persistent action in service of a dream in the community of others. It's the perfect call to action for the first-year college student.
Higher Education ABCs
There is a learning curve when beginning college. There is a whole new language and lexicon. Teachers become professors and there is a bewildering number of acronyms. The SUB is not an underwater navel vessel but the Student Union Building. This post clarifies two key roles, advisor and counselor.
When the Teacher Becomes a Student
Becoming a student again was probably the best thing I could do to be a better teacher.
Lessons from the Class of 2021
We discuss the spot-on advice and wisdom dispensed by Bozeman high school seniors whose graduation day is just around the corner.
Games for College Success
College is a game and some of the rules are unwritten. Success Prints Crash Course® provides a secret decoder ring allowing students to read the “hidden rules.” It’s the perfect game for high school seniors and new college students to test their strategy and develop a college success mindset.
Socially-distanced Game Play: All the fun but at a safe distance
How do you play a board game during a pandemic? Socially-distanced of course! We detail how one university brought students together, 6 feet apart, to have fun and games playing Success Prints Crash Course®.
Celebrating First Gen Students
This week we celebrate those students who are first in their family to attend college.
Class of 2020 Graduation: Every Which Way to the Next Step
As seniors experience graduation in ways never expected, it’s time to think about getting ready for the next step after high school. Whatever graduates choose to do, managing time and balancing demands will be top of list. Success Prints Crash Course is the perfect gift to help graduates get ready.
Playing in Person
It was AMAZING to play Success Prints Crash Course®, the college life strategy board game with students, live, in-person, and gathered around a table.