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Creating Context for Independence: College Readiness Takes Practice

September 28, 2023 • Focus Collegiate • Season 3 • Episode 4

College readiness is a subject in the hearts and minds of students and their parents across the country. A Google search for College Readiness produces nearly 235 million results.

This is the foundation of the work Focus Collegiate does in the areas of Academic Independence, Life Balance (personal skills and mindset), Social Integration, and Motivation and Decision-Making.

Focus Collegiate Founder and Principal Grant Leibersberger and Enrollment, Outreach Director Ann-Marie Stripling, and host Jane Taylor discuss the three pillars of college readiness: Self-Awareness, Independence, and Practice.

The episode ends in a lazer round of questions about how to practice Academic Independence, Life Balance (personal skills and mindset), Social Integration, Motivation, and Decision-Making.