Academic Life Coaching – LightVision Coaching & Mentoring

College Course Success: Goals, Motivation & Creating a Learning Plan

REPOSTED March 2023 with updated content Goal research: Setting goals keeps students focused on desired outcomes and provides a clear direction for success. The key to establishing goals that produce results is making them specific, measureable, attainable, relevant, and time sensitive. (2016, R Dotson, Superintendent Carter County Schools, Kentucky) Imagine a football coach who didn’t …

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Virtual coaching works!!

College classes for Fall are starting soon. Check out these reasons why students benefit from connecting to an independent and long distance college success coach: People like the comfort of their own place for private coaching. Freedom to share life concerns and dreams with independent person who only cares about their success and happiness. Being …

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A WHY for Learning Matters!

“Why does any of this stuff matter?” There was a time when more students did well enough in school by caring about grades or parent approval. Some barely passed and others did well. They may even feel like they are “trying”, but the reality of low grades and feeling bored tell a different story. With …

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Inspired global learning

Light for life: My work and volunteer journey years ago was taking youth on week long service trips – through church summer mission trips and college spring break trips. Each trip had some elements of transformation and growth. I’d spent time wondering what it would be like to create personal leadership adventures, but had let that …

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