Study Skills Tutoring

We also offer Study Skills tutoring to students in grades 6 through college.

Power Study Skills: Tools for Student Success

Our Power Study Skills curriculum provides students in grades 6 through college with essential study skills needed to succeed in middle school, high school, and college courses. Founder and instructor, Susan Santucci, is a study skills expert and author with a Master’s degree from Harvard and more than 20 years teaching experience.

This course is based on the groundbreaking concepts of Carol Dweck’s bestselling book Mindset. Dweck, a professor at Stanford University, is one of the world’s leading researchers in the field of motivation and learning. Her research shows that teaching students how their brains learn and remember helps them achieve far more than if they received simple tutoring in study skills or academic subjects alone.

Students who complete our programs:

• Develop a “growth mindset,” so that they think of their intelligence not as a fixed quality but as a muscle to be developed.
• Increase their motivation to learn
• Want to work harder
• Persist through difficulty.
• Improve their study skills
• Earn higher grades

Topics addressed in the course include:

• Focused instruction on how the brain learns and strategies for improving memory.
• Getting organized and time management.
• How to improve memory.
• Mastering textbook material and increasing reading speed.
• Test preparation and test-taking skills.
• Note-taking from lectures
• Strategies for answering multiple choice, true-false, and matching questions.
• Taking essay exams.