Students learn skills and strategies to manage their academic lives: managing & keeping track of materials, setting up a productive study space, establishing homework routines, planning & prioritizing schoolwork, managing homework & studying, using a visual time management system, breaking assigned tasks into small, attainable chunks, getting school work done & submitted, and setting up an accountability system. 

Students learn to read for comprehension, using effective and active techniques to help them better understand what they are learning: reading actively, integrating specific strategies for comprehension as reading is being completed, previewing, finding the main idea, inferencing & reading between the lines, establishing connections, and identifying themes and literary devices.

Students learn how to study actively and take notes efficiently, utilizing hands-on techniques and strategies: how studying works, how to prepare for a test, effective note-taking strategies, answering test questions in the expected way, planning & estimating time during the test itself, evaluating test performance, help with previewing & getting started on upcoming academic materials using differentiated learning methods. 

Students learn to structure their writing to ease output through active methods that help them to get started and stay on track: developing a plan and breaking down written work into small, manageable parts, brainstorming & idea generation, developing a structured outline, developing strong thesis statements, paragraph and essay writing, and editing & upgrading your own work.