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You have plenty of teachers... what you need is a Coach!
Thank you so much for your interest in Champion. I’d like to take this opportunity to tell you a little about myself, my educational background, and my passion for helping students thrive in their academic and life journeys. I have had the great honor of working directly with students in the classroom and supporting parents for over 2 decades. During that time, I taught students as young as 3 years old to undergraduate students in university. To this day, I maintain that the best training I ever had for parenthood was the thousands of hours I spent with my students and their families! It is through my career as a teacher and educational psychologist that Champion came to be. Champion’s purpose is to help students uncover their strengths and help align their goals to purpose so they live an inspired and fulfilled academic life. To achieve this, I have created a highly personalized academic and life coaching experience for those students who want to be proactive about their learning journey, or who feel overwhelmed and lost in the clutter of our education system. In addition to being an educator and educational psychologist, I am also a strengths-based life coach. Too often, students come to me having been knocked down and beat up from years of being told what they are not good at, without enough attention given to their talents and strengths. My teaching experience combined with a doctorate degree in education, leadership certificate from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, and certifications in strengths-based life coaching have served as a basis upon which the Champion Study Cycle CurriculumTM was designed, refined, tested and perfected. This curriculum helps students learn necessary skills and habits so they can feel and be successful in school. I unpack the curriculum with students in a highly personalized coaching environment and through my P.U.L.S.E ProcessTM which, in addition to teaching study and executive functioning skills, also helps students find clarity in their purpose and goals. I’m proud of the students and families Champion has served and will continue to support in a very personalized way. Champion serves as a living testament to who I am as an educator, a parent and an advocate for students. It also represents what I believe is missing in our system that our students and families so desperately need. Please take a few minutes to read more about Champion support of students and families in this packet. There’s also a wealth of additional information about Champion support and the Champion community on our website, Facebook site and LinkedIn. If you would like to schedule a session after reviewing this material, please let us know: admin@championmylife.com
Sincerely,
Dr. Vicki Rogers
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“Dr. Rogers taught me different techniques to learn and remember information better. She helped me understand how my brain worked (not at all like I thought!) and how to choose appropriate study techniques for each subject that helped my brain remember what I was taught more easily. I didn’t even know these “tricks” existed! Now studying feels so much more manageable (and a lot less boring!). I used to feel very discouraged about school but now I feel a lot more successful!” - John M., Middle School Student
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We believe knowing your strengths and having goals aligned to your purpose as a young adult will allow you to live an inspired and fulfilled life throughout your academic years and beyond.
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Middle School & High School Transition to College College
Challenges Of Traditional School Environment
How Academic & Life Coaching Can Help You Succeed
Teachers and counselors in large schools often don’t have enough bandwidth to offer the level of personalized ‘pastoral care’ to ensure that students are being given adequate support. The unintended result is overwhelmed and stressed out students who are either anxious about school or who lack of motivation.
By establishing a consistent meeting schedule for regular support, I am able to work with the student to ensure that critical study skills are being learned, practiced, and refined for staying on top of assignments, organization and time management. Together we uncover the student’s interest, personal learning style, and unique strengths which help inform purpose and goal setting.
Grades plummet, which leads to increased anxiety and stress for both the student and their parents.
Young adults who have not engaged in deliberate self-reflection to identify their true selves and sense of purpose may lack direction when selecting colleges and/or course of study. Incoming freshmen who have not developed disciplined time management and study skills, or who do not understand their unique learning style and strengths profile, find themselves flailing under the demands of college-level courses, increased autonomy, and the breadth of options for new activities.
Students who have not adequately prepared for the rigor of college struggle to chart a course to success in their new environment. Many lacking clear direction and motivation fail to graduate within 4 years, often changing majors and/or universities in search of balance and meaning, and struggling to identify career aspirations.
Students’ grades improve, and parents are able to relax and redirect their focus from academic management to other aspects of their relationship with their child.
By engaging with the student in high school, I am able to establish a core set of learning skills that will be readily transferable to the college setting. By getting to know the student on a personal level, I am also able to help them identify their natural skills and interests which will help inform direction setting on course of study in college. Once at college, I am able to maintain consistent coaching sessions via internet chat to support them throughout their transition and ensure they maintain a strong senseof self awareness as they make important academic decisions.
As I continue with the student through college, we transition to goal setting and self-advocacy, and over time appropriately adjust the balance of academic and life coaching with the goal of uncovering life passions to inform life choices after college.
"Stop Stressing About School! Learn how to study effectively! Work smarter, not harder! Free up your precious time and watch your grades soar!"
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“I’ve known Dr. Rogers for several years. All 3 of our children had Dr. Rogers as a teacher and now a coach. We have seen first-hand her drive and passion for helping students succeed and live meaningful and purposeful lives! All 3 of my children are very, very different, and yet Dr. Rogers was able to personalize her coaching to each of their individual and unique areas of need. She not only knows her stuff but is living it through Champion. Best of all, I don’t have to be the “task manager” of my children anymore!” - Lexi L., Parent of 3 very opinionated and hormonal teenagers
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IT'S A PROCESS... Self Discovery
Uncover your unique learning style, strengths, talents, and interests. Develop a heightened sense of self awareness and purpose.
Results!
Reduce your stress and anxiety. Increase your confidence and self awareness. Achieve your academic and life goals.
Purpose
Apply heightened self awareness to more authentically define purpose.
“TAKING YOUR PULSE”
Repeat this process of self discovery over time as priorities and goals evolve.
Goal Alignment
Support
Set ambitious, meaningful, and attainable goals that incorporate knowledge from self discovery.
Benefit from on-going coaching and advocacy to help you succeed.
Critical Skills Development
Learn, practice, and refine critical skills necessary to achieve your goals.
When we work on learning and fine-tuning the process, we always see the product improve. PULSE™ is a highly personalized, science-based process developed by Dr. Rogers that
uncovers students’ interests, personal learning style, and unique strengths, all of which help inform purpose and goal setting. This process will help you discover your unique attributes and serve as a basis to design a plan that you can use for the rest of your learning journey. PULSE™ will help you understand important rules for learning, uncover your unique strengths, and empower you with more confidence to manage school and stress, feel smart, and get more done in less time so you still have time to have more free-time to enjoy! 6 | www.championmylife.com
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I’ve been working with Dr. Rogers via weekly Skype sessions. We meet and talk about the challenges I’m facing being away from home (my family still lives in Asia; I’m going to college in the States), and being a TCK. Because she went through the exact same experience, I feel like I can relate to her and trust her advice. Plus, she’s really easy to talk to. I tell her things I don’t tell other people. Dr. Rogers has also help guide my course selection and goal setting. We use a lot of strengths language in our conversations. I love it. My parents often say they wish they had an academic life coach when they were in college. I’m in the middle of applying for a summer internship position and will be working on interview strategies and techniques with Dr. Rogers. Thank you, Dr. Rogers for all of your academic and life advice! - Sarah C., Formally-Freaked-Out-But-Now-More-Confident-Freshman
WHAT IS STRENGTHS-BASED COACHING? Dr. Rogers is a trained and certified Strengths Communicator and Practitioner©. She uses the StrengthsFinder and StrengthsQuest psychometric tools developed by The Gallup Organization to help students and parents discover and develop their strengths by building on what they do best – the way they most naturally think, feel, and behave as unique individuals. This assessment has international presence as a talent measurement instrument and is helping thousands of students at more than 600 schools and universities to discover and build upon: • Behavior patterns that make them effective • Thought patterns that make them efficient • Beliefs that empower them to succeed • Attitudes that sustain their efforts toward achievement and excellence • Motivations that propel them to take action and maintain the energy needed to achieve at high levels In her strengths-based coaching with students and families, she helps students learn how to: • Discover and develop their greatest natural talents to progress to levels of personal excellence • Improve their grades and increase their learning by making the most of their talents • Determine a rewarding career path based on their unique strengths • Apply their talents in leadership, service, and relationship building of all types
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“Dr. Rogers is direct and firm, but also a great listener and a kind human being who takes a personal interest in her students that extends well beyond academics. Her approach is holistic and she spends a lot of time getting to know your child as a person, understanding his/her motivations, social pressures, and how these affect the focus and academic success of a student.” - M.D, Parents of a few fun loving, fantastic, full-on teenage boys! 7
STRENGTH-BASED PARENT COACHING Discover your unique talents and strengths, and learn how to use them to empower your parenting journey. Enhance your individual parenting style and support your children in developing their own talents and strengths. In Champion’s strength-based parent coaching sessions, you will learn practical parenting advice, supported by best practice, neuroscience, and over two decades of research grounded in strengths psychology. There is not a prescription for parenting, but understanding your strengths as well as your child’s helps to provide a blueprint to help you: • communicate, reduce misunderstanding, tailor discipline, and use encouragement in a strength-based manner with your children • manage challenges and disappointments, and find the learning opportunities in adversity • establish a critical co-parenting platform with your partner • solve problems without power battles • time and message important communication • establish important routines and schedules for your family (and yourself!) • find a balance with screens and video games • effectively communicate with your child’s school • support your child in their unique academic and life journey, and help them find their path to becoming successful adults • ...and more! Parents have repeatedly affirmed that sharing a common strength-based language has been transformative in the relationship with their children. Your family is the most important operating system in the world. Your parenting role is the most important job you will ever have. Enjoy the journey!
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We have our family back. We have repaired our relationship with our children and with each other through having established some very important (and long overdue) boundaries, schedules and expectations. Dr. Rogers is an excellent parent coach and teacher. Her strength-based approach has given us our confidence back and helped us see what we each contribute to our family unit.
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EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING & LIFE SKILLS Champion’s executive functioning and life skills coaching helps students establish and solidify important skills needed to successfully transition young adults to independent living. Students will learn time management, personal finance, investing and saving, stress management, conflict resolution, and more!
STUDY SKILLS Study skills are critical to your academic success! Champion will teach you important study skills so that you can become an independent, successful and confident learner in all of your classes.
TEST TAKING STRATEGIES Rock your assessments and get the grades you want! Champion will give you tips and teach you strategies so that you can feel confident going into each and every one of your tests.
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I entered Dr. Rogers’ course thinking I would learn a few useful tips and tricks. While my original method of working late nights was sufficient enough to pull me through semester one, I felt I had room for improvement. Instead, what I took away from the seminar was a radically different view, not based on speculation but proven through successful trials and analyses. Her lessons gave me insight into how we could use the brain to learn faster and easier, the ability to organize the little portions of time into an hour of solid work, and the skills I needed to prepare for any upcoming test. After coaching from Dr. Rogers and applying the new set of skills learnt, I was able to comfortably manage my time while playing sports at a high-intensity level (2-3 hours a day) and still maintain a GPA of above 3.85 for the next semester. Looking back, I cannot believe how much I have grown in such a short amount of time, and my deepest thanks go out to Dr. Rogers. - Jay A., High School Student., Once drowning in work, now swimming in style.
PSYCHOLOGICAL-EDUCATIONAL EVALUATION If your child’s teachers, tutor or other educational specialist has suggested a psychologicaleducational (“psych-ed”) evaluation for your child, you may be wondering what that is, why it is being recommended, and how it may help. Psych-ed evaluations provide valuable learning information specific to your child. It is a multi-method process covering cognitive, academic, social, emotional and attentional processing and their strengths and weaknesses. If your child is struggling, this helps to give valuable insight about how to help them be their most successful self. You will receive a full report that details important recommendations for school and home interventions that will help your child develop to their fullest potential. 9
One of Champion Academy's most popular Student Seminars is called, "Crack Your Learning Code: Death of The All Nighter". This seminar is great for those who are waiting for a one-on-one session as it takes students through the Champion Study Cycle curriculum that teaches executive functioning and study skills.
CRACK YOUR LEARNING CODE: DEATH OF THE ALL NIGHTER!
Student Seminar
Students will emerge from this seminar knowing how to work smarter rather than harder so they can achieve more in less time, lower their stress levels, and increase their appreciation for their learning journey.
Now more than ever, students want to learn more about themselves as learners and how to be their best selves in school. The problem is, they don’t know where to start! Students of any ability can benefit from learning how to learn. The Champion Study Cycle Curriculum™ brings the science of learning together with the art of teaching to demonstrate to students how to actively engage in their learning. Champion Academy’s Student Seminar, “Crack Your Learning Code: Death of The All Nighter!” uncovers the science behind how we learn and teaches smart systems for managing tasks. During this full-day intensive seminar, students will be taken through the Champion Study Cycle Curriculum™, which will offer a deep understanding of how learning works, and provide a toolbox full of study skills and important executive functioning skills to support their academic and life journey. Dr. Rogers will share her own “tips and tricks” that she has designed, tested and perfected over 20 years of instruction and curriculum design to teach students how to: • create strong habits • enhance their focus • keep their motivation levels high • boost their memory • tackle difficult concepts • learn critical study skills strategies • understand the science behind effective note-taking • improve their diet, sleep and exercise to enhance their learning • …and more! 10 For | www.championmylife.com more information email admin@championmylife.com
CRACK YOUR LEARNING CODE: DEATH OF THE ALL NIGHTER! Agenda
Morning Part 1:
• Introductions. Meet & Greet. • Get Ready, Get Set, Go! Introduction to the Champion Study Cycle Curriculum™, a concept that will change how you approach school and learning for the rest of your life. • Train Your Brain. Learn important brain rules that help apply the Champion Study Cycle™ to all your classes, enabling you to learn anything more effectively. • Get Active with your Study Senses. Discover the 4 steps to active learning that banish boredom forever by providing countless combinations of interesting ways to learn. • Take Powerful Notes. Learn highly effective ways to take creative, powerful notes that make key points stick every time.
BREAK & SNACK Morning Part 2:
• Design Quizzable Study Tools (Part 1). Learn how to create effective quizzable study tools to help you ace your next test. • Get Yourself Organized! Tired of losing your homework? Can’t find an important document you need? Create your own Champion Organization system and go home with all the tools necessary to maintain it! (Materials included)
LUNCH & BRAIN BREAK Afternoon Part 1:
• Design Quizzable Study Tools (Part 2). Continuation from the morning to solidify these important skills. • Make a Rock Solid Study Plan. Customize the Champion Study Cycle Curriculum™ into a personalized plan that is fun and effective and will help you feel 100% ready for every school day.
BREAK & SNACK Afternoon Part 2:
• Overcome Procrastination & Perfect Your Time Management Skills! Stop wasting time and energy, get your school work completed, and have more time to play! Learn how to overcome procrastination using systems to help you take charge of your learning and your life. • Student-Led Presentation Preparation. Individual preparation to demonstrate skills learned and reveal the new active learner you have become.
Afternoon Part 3:
• Parent Presentation. Students showcase their learning from the day for their parents. • Work Smarter, Not Harder Simulation. • Closing Remarks from Dr. Rogers. ***Materials and Meals Included*** 11
CHAMPION IS CURRENTLY SUPPORTING STUDENTS AND FAMILIES ON 5 CONTINENTS
Germany England USA, Washington USA, Colorado USA, California USA, Nevada
USA, Massachusetts USA, New York USA, Connecticut USA, Rhode Island
Spain
Beijing, China
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Tokyo, Japan
Delhi, India
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Malaysia Singapore
Jakarta, Indonesia Bali, Indonesia
New Zealand
DR. VICKI ROGERS Academic & Life Coach admin@championmylife.com Skype: championmylife
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