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Make It Stick
"Learning is an acquired skill and the most effective strategies are often counterintuitive". -Brown, Reodiger & McDaniel
Recent discoveries in cognitive psychology are showing that more complex and durable learning comes from overcoming the difficulty of acquiring new information. Moving away from specific learning styles and common study routines and encountering difficulty not only ensures that learning will "stick" but it will also sharpen critical thinking and problem solving skills.
There are a significant number of distractions that begin to happen for high school students. From extracurricular commitments, jobs, volunteering, and social lives the modern high school student often puts academic learning on the back burner. The BHS Counseling team understands the demands put on our students and works to support balance for them. With that however our focus will be to emphasize academic success as we also believe an education is what opens doors to future possibilities for personal success - whatever that may look like for each student.