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Carol is committed to helping students turn on their brains, get motivated, and discover their abilities. As President of her own company, LifeBound, she teaches study, interpersonal, and career skills to middle school and high school students in order to help them become competitive in today’s global world. She trains and certifies coaches in academic coaching skills, and focuses on at-risk students with her volunteer teaching at the federal prison and her LifeBound work in the Denver housing projects. “All students are at-risk for something whether it is academic, emotional, social, or economic,” says Carol. “If each of us is allowed to be human and accept our flaws, we can overcome our limitations and be the best for ourselves and others.”
Carol also speaks on educational topics nationally and internationally. Her first book, Majoring in the Rest of Your Life, launched her writing career and opened the door to her work on the Keys to Success series.
Joyce Bishop has taught college students for more than twenty years. After struggling with a learning disability as a student, she focused on her visual and logical-mathematical learning abilities and went on to earn a PhD in psychology. Right now, she is in her dream job as Staff Development Coordinator at Golden West College, while still teaching three classes. She enjoys training other faculty in effective teaching and learning strategies and also in how to teach online. For five years Joyce was voted “favorite teacher,” she was Teacher of the Year for 1995 and 2000, and in 2008 received the Hayward Award, a State Teaching Award.
Joyce co-founded a program 19 years ago for poor women from abusive backgrounds. Since that time, the Pathways to Independence non-profit foundation has sent 255 young women to college, and 195 have graduated into gainful employment. While the young women have come from backgrounds as diverse as prison, extreme poverty, abuse, or psychological disorders, Joyce has been their champion. One of her Pathways graduates is Valerie, who obtained her degree in nursing and is now working at a major university hospital as a pediatric nurse. “It is so inspiring to see what these girls do with their lives,” says Joyce, “once they know that they can do anything.”
Sarah Lyman Kravits lives the strategies for success she writes about. As an author and mother of three children aged 10, 8, and 4, she faces the challenges of time management, goal achievement, and fulfilling responsibilities (not to mention eating right and getting enough sleep). In her writing and research, she works to keep up with technology and the growth of knowledge. In her relationships with work colleagues all over the country, she strives for integrity, effective communication, productive teamwork and, most of all, flexibility. Creativity also plays a dominant role. Along with her husband, an actor and musician, she promotes creative ideas and actions in the home as well as during her writing hours at the computer.
Unlike Carol and Joyce, Sarah thrived in school from an early age based on her strength in verbal-linguisticand logical-mathematical learning. A few years after graduating from the University of Virginia as a Jefferson Scholar, she worked as program director for LifeSkills, Inc., a nonprofit organization that aims to further the career and personal development of high school students. This work led her into co-authoring her first student success text and the realization she was driven to empower students to reach their goals. "Lifelong learning is the essential success skill," says Sarah. "Learning gives you a chance to go beyond just thinking about your dreams so that you can make them happen."
Chapter 1 — Habits for Success: Reality Check
Habit for Success: Persist
Take Action: Prepare to Change a Habit
Real People Persist: Yvette Gomez, Graduate of the University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
Powerful Questions about Persisting
Inside Tips from Sarah, Self-Management Coach
Habit Summary: Persist
Chapter 2 — Learning Styles: Building and Using Self-Knowledge
Habit for Success: Keep Learning
Real People Keep Learning: Dr. Joyce Bishop, Professor of Psychology at Golden West College
Take Action: Link How You Learn to Coursework and Major
Inside Tips from Carol, Career Coach
Powerful Questions about Continuing to Learn
Chapter 3 — Time and Money: Managing Important Resources
Habit for Success: Think Before You Act
Take Action: Make a To-Do List
Inside Tips from Joyce, Technology Coach
Powerful Questions about Thinking Before You Act
Real People Think Before They Act: Drs. Sampson Davis, Rameck Hunt, and George Jenkins, Graduates of Seton Hall University
Take Action: Map Out Your Budget
Habit Summary: Think Before You Act
Chapter 4 — Setting and Reaching Goals: Using Values, Stress Management, and Teamwork
Habit for Success: Reach Out to Others
Take Action: Explore Your Core Values
Take Action: Create a SMART Goal Achievement Plan
Powerful Questions about Reaching Out to Others
Real People Reach Out to Others: Louise Gaile Edrozo, Graduate of the Registered Nursing Program at Highline Community College, Des Moines, Washington
Habit Summary: Reach Out to Others
Chapter 5 — Critical and Creative Thinking: Solving Problems and Making Decisions
Habit for Success: Create and Imagine
Take Action: Analyze a Statement
Real People Create and Imagine: Charlie Reinhardt, Graduate Student in Hotel Management, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Powerful Questions about Creating and Imagining
Take Action: Gather Evidence of Your Creativity
Inside Tips from Carol, Career Coach
Habit Summary: Create and Imagine
Chapter 6 — Memory: Maximizing Recall for Test Success
Habit for Success: Put Your Senses to Work
Real People Put Their Senses to Work Through the Power of Memory: Henry Gustav Molaison, a Man Without a Memory
Take Action: Linking Memorization and Critical Thinking
Inside Tips from Joyce, Technology Coach
Take Action: Create Your Own Mnemonic
Powerful Questions about Putting Your Senses to Work
Habit Summary: Put Your Sense to Work
Chapter 7 — Reading and Studying: Focusing on Print and Online Materials
Habit for Success: Ask Questions
Take Action: Survey a Text
Inside Tips from Sarah, Self-Management
Real People Ask Questions: Candace Payne, George Washington University, Pre-Med Student
Take Action: Mark Up a Page to Learn
Powerful Questions about Asking Questions
Habit Summary: Ask Questions
Chapter 8 — Reading Across the Disciplines: Math, Science, Social Science, and Literacy Texts
Habit for Success: Use What You Know
Powerful Questions about Using What You Know
Inside Tips from Joyce, Technology Coach
Real People Use What They Know to Learn and Solve Problems: Laban Seyoum, Political Science Graduate Student, Southern Connecticut State University
Take Action: Connect Courses in Different Disciplines to Your Own Success
Habit Summary: Use What You Know
Chapter 9 — Active Listening and Note Taking: Taking In and Recording Information
Habit for Success: Listen Actively
Powerful Questions about Listening Actively
Real People Listen Actively: Ismael Valenzuela, Iraq War Veteran and Student at the Borough of Manhattan Community College
Inside Tips from Carol, Career Coach
Take Action: Prepare to Listen and Take Notes in Your Hardest Class
Take Action: Combine Class and Text Notes
Habit Summary: Listen Actively
Chapter 10 — Test Taking I: Test Preparation and Objective Tests
Habit for Success: Take Responsible Risks
Take Action: Organize for Test Success
Powerful Questions about Responsible Risk
Inside Tips from Sarah, Self-Management
Real People Take Responsible Risks: Carla Baku, Stanford University English Major
Take Action: Learn from Your Mistakes
Habit Summary: Take Responsible Risks
Chapter 11 — Test Taking II: Getting Results on Essay Tests and Graded Projects
Habit for Success: Be Flexible
Inside Tips from Carol, Career Coach
Take Action: Write to the Action Verb
Real People Think Flexibly: Abigail Holtz, Transferred to Tufts University from Art School
Powerful Questions about Flexibility
Take Action: Be Part of a Virtual Team
Habit Summary: Be Flexible
Chapter 12 — Moving Toward Success: Putting Habits to Work
How Do the Habits for Success Keep You Moving Ahead?
How Can You Apply Each Habit Toward Positive Change?
How Will the Habits Power Your Successful Future?
Appendix A — Guide to Library and Internet Research
Appendix B — Communicating Ideas Through Writing
Appendix C — Problem-Solving Strategies for Math and Science Courses
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