In response to President Trump’s deportations of hundreds of undocumented people, Christina Jiminez, United We Dream co-founder, led the “Here to Stay” campaign. She asked allies to show up in homes, in court and detention centers, and to provide sanctuary in churches to prevent deportations.
Your Mindful Guide to Academic Success: Beat Burnout
Gayle Kimball, Ph.D.
ISBN 978-0-938795-50-6 200 pages
Available on Amazon $9.99
This book is a very useful tool for students to be able to handle their independence as a student in college with so many incredible ideas and ways to help them develop into strong individuals. Dr. Kimball has constructed a comprehensive guide that can be just as effective for the first year experience as it can be for seniors preparing to graduate and embark on their professional journey. She supports the holistic individual – emotionally, physically, and socially. Roderica Williams, Ph.D.
The nine chapters provide information for high school and college students about how to achieve academic goals and reduce stress:
How to identify your learning styles
Techniques to achieve your goals
Study skills and effective test taking
How to write research papers
Stress reduction
Understand mind power
Clearing emotional blocks to success
Physical vitality
Student activism and goals internationally
Student experiences are featured, along with a variety of experts, and they created the illustrations.
Traveling around the world, interviewing young people for my series of books about global youth viewpoints and activism, I heard how much time, worry and anxiety goes into studying for tests. I have a lot of experience studying and test-taking to earn my bachelor’s degree, teaching credential, two Masters Degrees, and Ph.D.—all from the University of California. I’ve corrected thousands of student essays teaching in high school and then in university for decades. I want to share with students what I’ve learned about how to succeed academically, stay centered and have time to enjoy life. I include the advice and experience of young people from various countries to discover how they succeed and to provide insight into the global youth culture in an increasingly globalized world. As a Pakistani young man said in this book, “It lets the students know that their worries/guilt are uniform and students from other regions are facing the same problems.” Although it’s rare, I advocate that the voices of actual young people should be included in books about and for them
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 How to Achieve Your Goals with Metacognition
Understanding Your Learning Styles
Making Your Brain Work for You
Coping with Learning Disabilities
Identifying Your Personality Types
Chapter 2 Study Skills
Reading, Note Taking, Memorizing, Study Groups
Test Taking Skills suggestions by Dr. Stephen Tchudi
Effective Oral Reports
Overcoming Math Anxiety
Time Management vs. Procrastination
Chapter 3 How to do Research by Morgan Brynnan, MLIS
Information Literacy
Is it all CRAAP – Evaluating Sources
Research Basics
Plagiarism, Ethics and Citation
Chapter 4 Coping with Stress
The Physiology and Causes of Stress
How to Cope with Stress
Resilience
Balance the Left and Right Sides of the Body
Chapter 5 Understand Mind Power
Research on Mind Over Matter
Positive Self-Talk
How to Clear Emotional Blocks
Chapter 6 Emotional Issues that influence School Success
The Power of the Unconscious Mind
Happiness
Being a Student of Color in a PWI
Self-Esteem
Worry
Anxiety and Depression
Grief
Anger
Chapter 7 Physical Vitality
Healthy Food
Prevent Eyestrain
Exercise
Increase Energy
Enough Sleep
Chapter 8 Getting into College, Career Planning
Getting Into College
Adjusting to College
Post-College Career Planning
Chapter 9 Student Activism in the US and International Education Reform
What Students Want from their Education
The Finish Model
Student Educational Activism
Youth Activism in the US
Global Youth Transform the Future 