In response to recent findings that students' academic results are impaired by stress and self-doubt, here are three ways to help them reframe how learning works.

Students learn better when their "thinking" includes thinking about the material plus how to dig in, break it apart, understand it, and build on that.

Students are more likely to engage in learning if you present the material in the context of a story conveying emotions that they can understand.

Guest bloggers Hunter Maats and Katie O'Brien explain how there are no bad test takers, but stress responses are real. Students can learn how to reset the visceral distraction of feelings that inhibit their test performance.

Guest bloggers Hunter Maats and Katie O'Brien, teachers and authors, discuss the value of making mistakes and helping students adopt the mindset to view their mistakes as healthy challenges rather than crushing defeats.

Getting straight A ’s is hard work. It requires a lot of studying. It requires late nights. Setting goals is about sacrifice, and if you want that perfect transcript, you have to accept that you’ll deal with a ton of stress

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