Teaching powerful ideas & practical skills students can use now—and for the rest of their lives!

about our workshops:

Useful topics: We offer workshops on a range of useful topics, from Learn Anything Effectively to Write for Impact
Flexible modality: We offer train the trainer, direct instruction, and curriculum only models
Custom delivery: We tailor the length and number of sessions to meet your needs
Partnerships: We work with schools & other organizations who want to equip their students with the ‘hidden curriculum’ students need to succeed, individually and as engaged citizens

catalog of Workshops

Under each category there are sub-topics, each of which is a self-contained workshop module. For more about what is included in a module, see below.

Succeed in application processes

- Design a Winning Resume: Analyze a resume, identifying strengths & weaknesses to generate best practices that make your resume stand out—in a good way!
  Work product: Create a resume using our template & best practices.
- Write a Cover Letter that Stands Out: Analyze example cover letters, identifying strengths & weaknesses to generate best practices you can use to increase your chance of getting an interview.
  Work product: Write a cover letter using our template & best practices.
- Create a LinkedIn Profile that Gets Noticed: Analyze example LinkedIn profiles, identifying strengths & weaknesses to generate best practices that will make potential employers take you seriously.
  Work product: Create or update your LinkedIn profile using our best practices.
- Network to Learn & Land an Internship: Learn how to use LinkedIn and email networking to get & stay in touch with professionals.
  Work product: Connect with relevant professionals on LinkedIn and use our templates as a jumping off point to write your own networking email.
Tell Good Stories: Learn how to respond to common interview questions in ways that leave an impression.
Work product: Prepare story responses to common prompts.
Bring Your Stories to Life: Learn best practices for both live and async interviews that will make you stand out from the crowd.
Work product: Complete both live & async interviews.

build Professional skills

- Write Surveys to Uncover Insights Hiding in Plain Sight: Review a real survey to generate strengths & weaknesses.
  Work product: Draft your own survey using our best practices.
- Analyze Survey Data: We’ll review output from a survey to show best practices for uncovering insights.
  Work product: Analyze your survey output, teasing out the most important insights.
- Design Effective Slides: Learn to balance text & imagery to create slides that communicate in ways that connect with your audience.
  Work product: Improve select slides of your choosing using principles from the workshop.
- Storyline Powerful Presentations: Learn to use story structure to create presentations that resonate.
  Work product: Restructure a slide deck to create a story arc.
- Deliver Persuasive Presentations: Learn and apply a simple framework for delivering presentations that move your audience.
  Work product: Use the framework & techniques to improve your delivery.

Write For Impact

- Find your Angle: We show you how your approach to telling a story matters as much as the content you include and show you how to play with the angle to magnify the impact of your writing.
  Work product: Brainstorm five possible angles for a single story and write quick drafts of two of them.
- Harness the Power of Story Structure: We share the principles of story structure & how they can be applied to transform your writing.
  Work product: Turn one of your story drafts into a stronger narrative using the elements of story structure.
- Write a Strong Hook: We show you how to capture your reader’s interest with powerful first sentences.
  Work product: Write three potential hook sentences for your essay.
- Structure Powerful Paragraphs: We demonstrate how paragraph breaks and internal structure change how a story reads.
  Work product: Re-paragraph one of your story drafts and rework the flow between paragraphs using principles from class.
- Leverage the Art of the Sentence: We show you how to identify the most important sentences in your piece and polish them to make both the sentences and the piece as a whole stand out.
  Work product: Identify the three most important sentences in your piece. Write three alternative versions for each of these sentences, using strategies we discussed.

learn Mental Habits of High Performers

- Learn Anything Effectively I: Learn a basic model of cognition to help you evaluate the value of study approaches, as well as research-backed principles for efficiently mastering material.
  Work product: Create an action plan for studying using best practices.
- Learn Anything Effectively II: Extend the basic model of cognition to deepen your understanding and refine your approach to studying.
  Work product: Refine your action plan for studying.
- Determinants of Wellbeing: Learn how positive psychologists conceptualize wellbeing and how you can apply this framework to analyze and improve wellbeing.
  Work product: Apply the framework to your own wellbeing and use it to generate ideas to improve your wellbeing.
- Build Resilience: Learn about cognitive distortions & how we can reframe them to build resilience.
  Work product: Identify a common cognitive distortion and how you can redirect it.

develop College Skills

- Read academic journal articles: Learn a framework for examining academic articles to quickly understand their design & findings.
  Work product: Apply this framework to another article.
- Read nonfiction texts efficiently: Learn a framework for examining nonfiction books to quickly understand key arguments & construction.
  Work product: Apply the framework to a nonfiction book of your choosing.
Each of these introductions includes an overview of the field, an examination of its strengths & weaknesses, excerpts from works in the field, and links to careers.
- Introduction to Economics
- Introduction to Sociology
- Introduction to Anthropology
- Introduction to Psychology
- Introduction to Political Science

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how each workshop module is designed

Each module combines an interactive video lesson, in-class workshops, and independent iteration to impart a single valuable skill:

A pre-work assignment, often generating a rough first draft using a template
A live session, focused on collaboratively critiquing student work examples—identifying what is strong and what could be improved to elevate important concepts and improve student judgement
An assignment for students to independently iterate on their draft, using what they learned in the live session
A peer group meeting where students give and receive feedback on their drafts
An assignment for students to independently iterate on their draft, incorporating peer feedback
A live extension session to collaboratively critique more student work and introduce a concept or two to take the topic further

how it works

We provide an expert instructor who teaches your students for the live virtual components of each module using our best-in-class online pedagogy.

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Why partner with us

Honed material: Our team of education and industry professionals spends hundreds of hours carefully designing and thoughtfully iterating on our materials to combine the most relevant content—academically grounded & industry-relevant— with effective pedagogy.
Knowledgeable teachers and trainers: Our teachers have content expertise in the areas they’re teaching and deep training in our approach to learning.
Best-in-class learning: We are obsessed with uncovering best practices that make learning rigorous, interactive, and fun—whether in-person or online (really!).
Student-approved: Our workshops average a Net Promoter Score of 80 with students, who rave about how valuable they are—even years later.