Trying to understand why students seem more stressed than ever?
Challenge Success is also about urging teachers to consider the purpose and practice of their classroom instruction.
Changing the Conversation about Homework from Quantity and Achievement to Quality and Engagement
Thinking about the culture of your classroom?
Do your students need more study skills?
What about teacher stress?
If you're interested in how colleges' priorities are changing and where our recent graduates are, check these links out:
Important information about teen stress
What have other schools tried?
Here's what happened at Dover-Sherborn High School in Boston.
Here's what a Seattle high school has done.
Our Survey Results
2015 Stanford Survey of Adolescent School Experiences
Recommended Books
- Revealing study: "I Can, Therefore I Must"
- "Best, Brightest and Saddest"
- A College Professor Discusses "Coddling" His Students
- Depression in the home can impact students' grades
- Why Are More American Teenagers than Ever Suffering from Extreme Anxiety? Parents, therapists and schools are struggling to figure out whether helping anxious teenagers means protecting them or pushing them to face their fears
Challenge Success is also about urging teachers to consider the purpose and practice of their classroom instruction.
Changing the Conversation about Homework from Quantity and Achievement to Quality and Engagement
Thinking about the culture of your classroom?
- The Power of Being Seen
- Try getting more curious and less furious
- A One-Time Lesson in Growth Mindset Can Help With Depression and Anxiety
- Cheat or Be Cheated: What We Know About Academic Integrity
- Ways to think about students who aren't doing well in your class
Do your students need more study skills?
- Amazing, useful NEW information at Healthy Chaps provided by WHS EdTechs - all about studying at Westlake
- This list has proven methods that might surprise you.
- Focusing on Finals - How to prepare
- These tips are focused on study methods for students with ADHD, but they'll work for everyone.
What about teacher stress?
- From Chaos to Coherence: Managing Stress While Teaching
- 10 Ways to Reduce Teacher Stress (#10 is particularly good)
- Teacher Burnout: 4 Warning Signs
- Helping Teachers Cope With Stress (an old academic article with some good ideas)
If you're interested in how colleges' priorities are changing and where our recent graduates are, check these links out:
- What do colleges really think about weighted GPAs?
- Harvard's Making Caring Common Report on many colleges' new priorities for admissions
- Where the Westlake Class of 2017 applied and is attending
- Where the Westlake Class of 2016 applied and is attending
Important information about teen stress
- Do You Know? Fascinating research findings on high school students shared by Challenge Success
- Do You Know? More research findings from Challenge Success, this time about middle school students
What have other schools tried?
Here's what happened at Dover-Sherborn High School in Boston.
Here's what a Seattle high school has done.
Our Survey Results
2015 Stanford Survey of Adolescent School Experiences
Recommended Books
- Overloaded and Underprepared by Denise Pope, Maureen Brown, and Sarah Miles
- Social Media Wellness: Helping Tweens and Teens Thrive in an Unbalanced Digital World by Ana Homayoun
- Doing School by Denise Pope