Solid A's College Student Success Presentations

"Over the past few weeks I have applied these strategies to my class work and my schedule, and it helped tremendously.”
Tyler Weiser, Salina, Kansas

"As a Harvard educated English teacher with over forty five years of teaching experience, I learned a great deal more about my own learning styles and how to apply this information to my teaching. Dr. Howell is a truly engaging speaker who personalized his own learning experiences, both positive and negative. He is dynamic and keeps his audience focused on his information. Now I'm going forth to apply his principles in my classes. Thank you Dr. Howell. We at St. John's Northwestern Military Academy benefited from your expertise.”
Captain Jane Marie Hillier

College Student Presentations

Million Dollar Rookie Mistakes

Recommended for Freshman Orientation, Freshman Retention, and First Year Experience!

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Guarantee Your College Success: I guarantee you will never get lower than a B in college if you follow my 10 step program.

This is the most fantastic program we’ve ever developed. Over 11,000 hours of research is packed into this program. This strengths-based approach motivates you to perform at your highest levels. In a fraction of the time you will generate fantastic grades enabling you to succeed in the best colleges.

How many of you would like to get twice as much done in half the time, getting better grades while getting more excited about learning?

Convocation or Keynote: This humorous 30 to 45-minute presentation is not only memorable, but challenges and motivates students to get moving in the right direction. This gets students to learn the three biggest keys to success in college in a high energy and humorous yet formal presentation. This presentation is directed at helping Freshman get a fantastic start in college.

Seminar or Workshop: This high energy seminar goes much deeper into the points covered and shares from three to ten of the critical variables for learning how to succeed in higher education. This will last anywhere from 60 minutes to 3 hours and is taylor made to fit your program needs. Each Freshman leaves with at least one habit they pledge to work on for at least three weeks. The presentation ends with students voting for their favorite habits and strategies.

Objectives:

Our focus is to empower students by helping them improve their choices and habits. Often students learn best by seeing how not to do something. In this session, after each of the bad habits is presented, a number of strategies show how to prevent these habits from negatively impacting their experience at your school. Students will learn test taking, time management (delayed gratification) and reading strategies as well as how to locate effective study environments and where to find vital campus resources when they need help.

Sneak Peaks and Teasers:

1.) Learn the two most effective review times to get information to really stick in your brain.
2.) Discover the greatest note-taking system ever designed. It is NOT mind mapping.
3.) Double your reading speed in one minute AND remember more of what you read.
4.) Learn the single best study skills tip of all.
5.) Find out where to study, when to study, and how to study to make the most of your college experience.
6.) Use these techniques and guarantee that you will never fail a course in college.

Strategy 1: You can succeed with just the first strategy. It’s an incredibly easy strategy. Just fill in a short blank. But talk about powerful. This strategy is the only one you need to succeed. I’ll share three amazing stories of individuals that succeeded in college just using the first tip. The first is Ryan Ramlow. He just graduated from high school in 2004. His story is so amazing that Paul Harvey has already used it on his “Now you know the Rest of the Story”. If Ryan can make it, anyone can. I sat down with Ryan a short time ago to find out what was the secret ingredient that helped him succeed? How do you go from a 1.5 GPA and flunking all your math classes for three years in secondary school to winning the Academic Decathlon and being crowned the top student in North America? Ryan said that my first point was all that he used. That alone motivated him. It’s my first tip. It is the MOTIVATOR.
Strategy 2 addresses the #1 reason students fail.
Strategy 7: Do you have a problem with procrastination? No problem. Strategy 7 is the #1 procrastination killer.
Strategy 8: How can McDonald’s, iPods, DVDs and British Scuba Divers help you study better? That’s covered in strategy 8.
Strategy 9: President John F. Kennedy was exasperated. His White House staff couldn’t get through information fast enough. Nuclear war was threatening the survival of humanity. The Russians were placing missiles in Cuba and the White House staff was analyzing tons of information but they were too slow. So JFK had the staff all trained by the world’s leading speed reading program. We will show you the top technique that was taught to the White House staff that might have helped to save the world. It will certainly help you read faster. This strategy will double your reading speed in less than a minute.
Strategy 10: The Gold medal winning Chinese ping pong team focuses on their strengths. I took ping pong lessons when I lived in China. Wow. Focus on perfecting your strengths. Don’t even address your weakness. Just go crazy with your strengths. A guy who can only hit with his forehand, who cannot hit a backhand, wins the gold medal. Do you know what your study skill strengths are? Do you focus on them? Do you use them extensively?

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School Community Outreach Program

3 Programs for Students, Teacher and Parents -- in 1 Day

Impact the entire school community with 3 separate programs in one day. During the school day, we give one or two of our "7 Habits" presentations to freshmen students. Immediately after school, we teach our 45-minute Differentiated Teaching Strategies program with teachers. Later that evening we spend 90 minutes with seniors (only) and their parents covering the 10 strategies that will guarantee them success in college. By taking advantage of this program, administrators can reach students, teachers and parents with high impact strategies that are sure to raise not only your test scores, but also your status as an effective leader in your community.

Why Use SolidA?

We Design and Deliver Incredible Presentations: We use an instructional design model that helps us create presentations that fit all learning styles. This combined with multimedia enhanced presentations gives us an end result that is enlightening, exciting, energetic and unique.

We Have Great Presenters: Our lead presenter, Dusti Howell, is a dynamic presenter that will change the way you think about learning and succeeding in the education process. He went from nearly flunking out of a junior college to graduating with a Ph.D. major in Educational Technology (Curriculum and Instruction) and a Ph.D. minor in Educational Psychology from two separate programs that were both ranked number 1 by US News and World Report. He has taught at every grade from first through graduate school in the USA, China, Thailand and Sri Lanka. He is an Associate Professor at Emporia State University, home of The National Teachers Hall of Fame. His passion for study skills and the learning process has emerged from his years of research on the brain and learning styles.

We Do Our Best to Customize Our Materials to Work for You! What are your time constraints? Can we present at multiple schools? What are your objectives? We try to target our message at your audience in such a way that we address concerns and issues you are dealing with right now.

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1-262-692-3201 dhowell@SolidA.net
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