Post-Secondary Strategies & Support

At the post-secondary level, academics get harder, learning content needs to be processed faster and more efficiently, and there are new expectations for better quality assignments, projects, presentations, and papers. Whether you are a student transitioning from high school returning to school after a break, there are also increased demands to be independent, responsible, and self-motivated. In addition, there are often increased financial, social and emotional emotional, and, of course, simply – life pressures. Anxiety and uncertainty can skyrocket. This is usually the point on the educational journey that separates those students with effective study habits, self-management skills, and learning tools from those without.

Bold New Girls ™ is now offering both post-secondary preparation and on-going support to help navigate this transition and increased pressures and workload and to champion students towards academic and life success. Preparation and support is for those who need to learn/enhance the following skills:

Stress and anxiety management
Executive functioning skills: time-management, organization, working memory, auditory and visual processing skills, sequential processing, and self-management/self-monitoring skills
Note taking, listening, and memory skills
Research skills: finding scholarly information and understanding journal articles, interpreting research, and citing sources
Academic writing: gathering resources, formulating a thesis statement, summarizing/synthesizing research, analyzing and interpreting academic work, using quotations and support/evidence, clear and organized communication, and editing
Processing skills and multi-modal learning techniqes
Test preparation/study skills
Becoming an organized thinker/learner: asking questions, gathering resources, making connections and associations, evaluating information, and rethinking/interpreting information
Utilizing corrective feedback and failing forward
Transition skills: adjusting and adapting to change/new pressures
Social/emotional coping skills
Life balance and optimal health
Dealing with a designation/self-advocacy for learning needs
Academic strategizing: finding effective ways to manage academics
Guidance relating to LD/Gifted LD support programs
Learning to “adult”
Discussions and action plans for the future