Parents of Hardworking Teens

Parents of Hardworking Teens

Ever wish you knew how to help your hardworking teen get the results they really want and that match their effort and true potential? --- That’s exactly what you get with Katie Jones, award-winning high school teacher and international study coach, on the Parents of Hardworking Teens podcast. --- Katie’s specialty is making education and assessment clear and simple for both students and their parents, in a way that gets your teen top results, with less stress. --- Whether your teen is struggling to get the results they’re striving for, or is getting great grades but doing it with way too much struggle and strain, Katie will give you the insider info, proven tips and strategies to ensure your teen achieves their best possible success - and have you BOTH enjoy the journey along the way.

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July 14, 2025 17 mins

Ep. 133

→ Get the Free Parent Guide: 3 Huge Mistakes (Even Smart!) Students Make in Exams and Assignments - and how to fix them immediately so your teen confidently achieves their best ever grades.
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There are three groups of skills that generate the two outcomes almost all students and their parents want.

Discover what they are, why they create a double-whammy outcome and how your teen can master them!


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    Ep. 132

    → Get the Free Parent Guide: 3 Huge Mistakes (Even Smart!) Students Make in Exams and Assignments - and how to fix them immediately so your teen confidently achieves their best ever grades.
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    What to do with sources when they’re provided in an exam, inquiry report or for an extended response. 

    Discover the trap that many students fall into and what they need to do instead.


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    May 12, 2025 15 mins

    Ep. 131

    Students really dislike the planning stage of essays and extended responses. 

    I get it. 
    It feels like an extra chunk of work, when they really just want to get going with the writing. 

    But that would be a mistake.

    Here are 3 reasons why your teen should plan EVERY extended response - whether it’s a 10 mark exam question, 2000 word essay or research inquiry or report style assignment...
    so they create:
    - a higher qu...

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    April 14, 2025 13 mins

    Ep. 130

    → Get the Free Parent Guide: 3 Huge Mistakes (Even Smart!) Students Make in Exams and Assignments - and how to fix them immediately so your teen confidently achieves their best ever grades.
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    It doesn’t matter how motivated you are, if don’t know what you’re doing or how you're going to do it, it's gonna be very difficult to make progress. 

    Overwhelm and distraction are feelings an...

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    Ep. 129

    → Get the Free Parent Guide: 3 Huge Mistakes (Even Smart!) Students Make in Exams and Assignments - and how to fix them immediately so your teen confidently achieves their best ever grades.
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    Unique is not necessarily better. In fact often, it can be worse. If it means that it’s more tricky to meet the criteria or find the information needed. 

    Unique is not considered as more clever by marki...

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    Ep. 128

    → Get the Free Parent Guide: 3 Huge Mistakes (Even Smart!) Students Make in Exams and Assignments - and how to fix them immediately so your teen confidently achieves their best ever grades.
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    Get the full episode transcript and syllabus excerpt here:  https://www.rocksolidstudy.com/128


    Get Brutal Study Truth #1 at:  https://www.rocksolidstudy.com/127

    This sounds brutal, but...

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    March 24, 2025 13 mins

    Ep. 127

    → Get the Free Parent Guide: 3 Huge Mistakes (Even Smart!) Students Make in Exams and Assignments - and how to fix them immediately so your teen confidently achieves their best ever grades.
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    Get the full episode transcript and 'Return on Effort' Graph here:  https://www.rocksolidstudy.com/127

    It's no good letting students carry on thinking or studying in certain ways if it ...

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    March 17, 2025 20 mins

    Ep. 126

    → Get the Free Parent Guide: 3 Huge Mistakes (Even Smart!) Students Make in Exams and Assignments - and how to fix them immediately so your teen confidently achieves their best ever grades.
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    Get the 'Evidence for the Exam Success Shortcut' resource and full episode transcript here:  https://www.rocksolidstudy.com/126
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    There are explicit teaching / direct instruction ways ...

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    March 10, 2025 14 mins

    Ep. 125

    Get the Free Parent Guide: 3 Huge Mistakes (Even Smart!) Students Make in Exams and Assignments - and how to fix them immediately so your teen confidently achieves their best ever grades.
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    If your teen is constantly doing their best, and sometimes you’re concerned about them burning out 
    OR 
    if your teen is NOT putting in their best and you’re concerned about that - then this episode is for you.

    I beli...

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    Ep. 124

    Click to get the Free Parent Guide: 3 Huge Mistakes (Even Smart!) Students Make in Exams and Assignments - and how to fix them immediately so your teen confidently achieves their best ever grades.
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    So many students THINK they're studying hard, when actually they're just staying busy and FEELING productive.

    This is a recipe for disappointment when the results just don't seem t...

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    February 10, 2025 20 mins

    Ep. 123

    Get the Free Parent Guide: 3 Huge Mistakes (Even Smart!) Students Make in Exams and Assignments - and how to fix them immediately so your teen confidently achieves their best ever grades.
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    If you’ve been considering hiring a tutor for your teen, or they already have one, but things aren’t changing as much or as quickly as you’d hoped, 
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    you’ve decided not to get one, but want to know what else you ...

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    January 30, 2025 33 mins

    Ep. 122.

    Get the Free Parent Guide: 3 Huge Mistakes (Even Smart!) Students Make in Exams and Assignments - and how to fix them immediately so your teen confidently achieves their best ever grades.
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    How to help your teen nail their new year group - and have them:

    • feel confident and in control, 
    • know exactly what’s expected, 
      and 
    • achieve the results that match their effort.

      - Without the guessw...
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    Ep. 121
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    Get the Free Parent Guide: 3 Huge Mistakes (Even Smart!) Students Make in Exams and Assignments - and how to fix them immediately so your teen confidently achieves their best ever grades.
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    Yes, the subject content will be at a higher level.

    Yes, they'll probably get a bit more homework.

    But these aren't the things I see holding students back as they progress through the yea...

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    December 9, 2024 17 mins

    Ep. 120 - 

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    We're all familiar with the 80-20 rule.
    E.g.
    - We wear 20% of our clothes, 80% of the time.
    - 20% of our actions create 80% of our results.

    Here'...

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    Ep. 119
     
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    Here are 5 things you probably didn’t know about external exams, including:
    - how they work,
    - how they’re written and marked
    and
    - how your teen can turn them to their advantage.

    These are all things I had very...

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    November 11, 2024 17 mins

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    If your teen has ever questioned ‘what’s even the point of this task?’, or exclaimed ‘why am I having to do this?’... I want to let you know: those are actually some very strategic and smart questions!

    In f...

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    October 28, 2024 16 mins

    Ep. 117 - 

    Listen in on a conversation I had on the Happy Families podcast with Justin Coulson and his wife, Kylie a while ago where we talked about:

          
      •  Study stress
      •  What causes all of the stress
      •  How stress isn't about having too much to do, it's about how to get it all done
      •  Motivation & wellbeing
      •  Life balance
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    Here's why I think exams should become your teen's GREATEST STRENGTH
    (and what I'm doing to help make that a reality!):

    1) Exams are the biggest source of stress and cause of anxiety in most teen's school life.
    - If they can nail exams, their stress levels will be lower (and your household will be happier!) ;)

    2) Exams usually count for the biggest % of an overall mark or grade.
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    September 29, 2024 17 mins

    - Ep. 115
    Listen in on a conversation I had on the Mama Mia podcast a while ago where we talked about:

    • how to tackle big tasks 
    • the key to studying smarter 
    • and the three hurdles facing procrastinators. 


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    September 16, 2024 10 mins

    Ep. 114
    A better way for your teen to approach and think about completing tasks or answering questions, so they achieve more of those high level criteria and do it in a focused, clear and succinct way.


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