Skills Guides

These guides are being developed by students for students. The idea came from senior student, Kelly Y., who understands now how much more quickly she could have developed academic skills if her peers had shared strategies and techniques when she was entering upper school. Her goal is to document effective techniques big and small that students find helpful for reading, writing, notetaking, organizing, etc.. If you have an idea you want to share, please get in touch with Kelly.

The Reader's Bill of Rights: The right to not read, to skip pages, to not finish, to reread, to read anything, to escapism, to read anywhere, to browse, to read out loud, to not defend your tastes. 

Daniel Pennac, French author

Reading Tips from Students

Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else; we can bore people long after we are dead.

Sinclair Lewis, novelist

Writing tips from students.

There's no place where success comes before work, except in the dictionary.

Donald M. Kimball, Chair, PepsiCo Inc.

Notetaking tips from students. 

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes. Work strengthens us. Let us choose. 

Charles Baudelaire (1821-67), French poet.

Time Management Tips by Students

 Bullet Journals Intro by Kelly Y.

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought--that is educated. 

Edith Hamilton, classicist.

Study habit tips from students.

Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater. 

Maya Angelou, U.S. author.

See the videos below for teamwork tips from students.

Teamwork Intro by Kelly Y.