Alison is an executive function coach, teacher, and mom who has a Ph.D. in Educational Administration and Policy. Her research centered on social media and teacher learning. She spent 15 years teaching in public schools. She now spends her time blogging and working with students, parents, and teachers to use technology responsibly and develop kids' executive function skills.
Three minutes. The workshop's tonight.
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Hi Reader, Here's my guess at what happened. Monday's email landed, you read it, you thought oh — I’d like to check out that workshop. And then life happened, and by the time you got back to your inbox, it was fifty emails down and forgotten. That's the gap between meaning to do a thing and doing it — which, as it happens, is exactly what tonight is about. We build systems because good intentions make terrible delivery mechanisms. So let me close the gap for you. Signing up takes about three minutes. Four, if you're picky about which profile photo you use. 👉 https://www.skool.com/building-savvy-learners/about Tonight, 7:30 pm ET — Reset the Semester: 3 Systems That Actually Stick. And if 7:30 on a Thursday is genuinely impossible, join anyway. It's recorded, the replay goes up tomorrow morning, and there's a live Q&A Sunday at 1pm. The logistics, quickly: you're starting a free week. The platform takes a card to begin the trial, nothing is charged for seven days, cancelling is two clicks. Do it now, while you're looking at it. That's the whole strategy, and it's the same one I'd give your kid if they were putting off a task that takes fewer than five minutes to complete. |
Alison Eber, Ph.D.
Alison is an executive function coach, teacher, and mom who has a Ph.D. in Educational Administration and Policy. Her research centered on social media and teacher learning. She spent 15 years teaching in public schools. She now spends her time blogging and working with students, parents, and teachers to use technology responsibly and develop kids' executive function skills.
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