Jennifer Ledwith

We're winning the championships and we're starting with them as early as seventh grade to get them prepared.

We want to make this, of course, students are working on it, but also we want to make this a family effort as well, because I've done this for over 20 years and I want to win.

And sometimes it's,

And what I've discovered is, yes, it's good to, yes, we do have to do the things toward the end with the 11th and 12th graders, but let's also build that pipeline with those kiddos in seventh, eighth, and ninth grade so we can win this game.

How do you understand your students, especially when you have multiple children because none of them, you already know, you can feed them the same food, they can grow up in the same house, attend the same schools, and they're going to be completely different.

So how does that work when it comes to standardized tests?

Don't make assumptions because some of the things that you learn about your students, you don't want to learn too late that, oh, my student does really well on a classroom test.

But boy, when they took that ACT, that was a revelation.

Don't assume.

Just have them take a test early.

And, you know, you don't necessarily have to have them go into the actual official testing environment.

Practice tests are available online.

Administer the practice tests to the student.

But ACT does offer a paper-based practice.

Exam that you can get online as a PDF.

And College Board offers digital exams where, of course, you know, the software will score it for everyone.

Have them take those tests early.

Now, some students need to take it in an official environment so they can see that this is really real.

But other students are OK just doing it kind of informally at home or wherever.

Have them and then have them test early so you can know where they are.