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15th September 2008
At SuperCamp, students learn valuable techniques that make learning fun and easy. To ensure these skills are not lost or forgotten when they leave camp, it is important for parents to help enforce them at home. With a new school year upon us, one of the b...
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02nd September 2008
The Tenets are important concepts or guiding principles that are basic to the Quantum Learning system. These ideas are woven throughout the fabric of the system, and as a result will be rediscovered in many applications and strategies. The Tenets are spec...
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18th July 2008
Especially during tough times, young people need to know they can talk freely with someone they trust to really listen - someone who they feel is "on their team." Trust and security are created through acceptance, traditions, sharing, and a sense of belon...
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14th July 2008
Everybody's familiar with the concept of the comfort zone. It's where we live most of the time. Some of our campers describe what it's like inside their comfort zones: comfortable, safe, familiar, and... boring.
As they explore their comfort zones, the...
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07th July 2008
If we were to summarize in a word why people, especially teens, wear masks, it would be FIMAGE.
What's FIMAGE? It's short for Fear of Image.
You don't have to look far into a group of young people to see examples of all the things they do to create ...
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27th June 2008
No dream ever comes true, no obstacle is ever overcome, no goal is ever reached without focused action. Yet young people are seldom specifically taught how to set and pursue goals.
They may not have a strong sense of what a goal really is. At SuperCamp...
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23rd June 2008
Motivation is different from self-discipline. According to SuperCamp facilitator John LeTellier, self-discipline is doing what needs to be done, when it needs to be done, when you don't want to do it. Motivation is doing what needs to be done, when it nee...
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18th June 2008
One major difference between high school and college is the amount of studying and memorization that is required. Many young people worry that their memories aren't up to the task when it comes to schoolwork. Here again it's a matter of training. Even tho...
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12th June 2008
"My teacher hates me. She gets mad whenever I ask her to repeat something."
"When I told my teacher I had to read the same page over again three times to get what it said, he told me I was just being lazy."
"I got in trouble for fidgeting in my chai...
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11th June 2008
Campers come out of our programs sparkling with confidence because they've come face to face with their own success. We don't leave it to chance, belief, or wishful thinking. We let them experience for themselves just how good they are. We build in opport...
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10th June 2008
What comes up for you when you hear the word "test"? I'll never make it. I'm going to fail. I need to go to the nurse. These are typical responses we hear from students.
Over the years, young people develop certain attitudes about school. Their attitud...
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05th June 2008
We learn a lot from parents. They often observe how much easier it is to talk about school with their sons and daughters after SuperCamp. Before, when parents brought up the subject of schoolwork, their teens tended to get reactionary: "Here it comes: the...
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04th June 2008
"Last year at the end of the school year we did a little dance because Cody made it to the next grade. For quite a while there, we weren't sure if he would. He's a bright kid, but schoolwork just seems to frustrate him. I'd come to think of him as a poor ...
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08th May 2008
Students who attend SuperCamp's teen summer camps acquire many valuable learning and life skills. Here are some Quantum Learning tips that can help every student do better in school. Share them with your son or daughter.
S.L.A.N.T.
Sit in the front ro...
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08th May 2008
Changes are apparent in kids every summer at SuperCamp academic summer camps where counselors teach learning and life skills that help them know themselves, like themselves, and learn better. During our more than 25 years of running these summer programs ...
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