Revolutionizing Education: Exploring the Features of MyAcademicApproach Student Portal
Arts tourism drives the economy of the Berkshires. In high season the area’s hospitality industry thrives as visitors come for Tanglewood, Jacob’s Pillow, four equity theater companies, and several world-class museums. Over the past decade there has been an expansion boom. Some $250 million has funded about 150,000 square feet of additional gallery and performance space. That has generated new hotels, restaurants, and entrepreneurship.
The billion-dollar test prep industry has operated on the same principle for years: teach “tips and tricks” that high school students can use to boost their scores. MyAcademicApproach is turning that principle on its head, giving students an academically-enriching form of test preparation, ensuring that the skills and knowledge they gain while preparing for these tests continues to serve them as they progress through college.
Introduction to Academic Approach
Matthew Pietrafetta founded Academic Approach in 2001 and currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer. Since 2001, Matthew has supervised the organization’s instructional services, curriculum, and technology development. Whether working with lead trainers to provide high-quality support to Academic Approach’s tutors or collaborating with educators to deliver instructional support that drives higher student achievement, Matthew is committed to improving the quality of Academic Approach’s instructional practices and services. Academic Approach has 51 full-time employees and 121 tutors in over a dozen states around the country, and serves a broad demographic for students, promoting equity and access for thousands of students every year.
The Academic Approach to Test Preparation
Academic Approach is committed to providing a high-quality instructional service focused on personalized, academically enriching test preparation. This involves a rigorous instructional curriculum that doesn’t emphasize tips and tricks but instead focuses on raising students’ test scores while also developing vital college-readiness skills. The Academic Approach to test prep is more rigorous and extensive than merely teaching tips and tricks, but it works: it raises both scores and skills.
Disrupting the Test Prep Industry
The billion-dollar test prep industry has operated on the same principle for years: teach “tips and tricks” that high school students can use to boost their scores. MyAcademicApproach is turning that principle on its head. We give students an academically-enriching form of test preparation, ensuring that the skills and knowledge they gain while preparing for these tests continues to serve them as they progress through college.
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Academic Approach worked with over 170 schools around the country, delivered on-site classroom instruction to over 6,000 students, and helped high schoolers achieve a six-point growth average on their ACT scores, and a 150-point growth average on their SAT scores.
Promoting Equity and Access
Academic Approach is committed to bring high-quality test prep to students who wouldn’t normally be able to afford it. For years, Academic Approach has offered pro-bono tutoring, scholarships, and in-school tutoring services for school districts in low-income, underprivileged communities. Academic Approach’s work with school districts has grown to be nearly half of the business. They also run a summer academy that’s attended by high achieving students in the Chicago area who have been nominated by their school principals to receive free test prep. So, Academic Approach has done a lot of work to extend their services to underserved students, and plan to do this even more in the future.
The Importance of Embracing the Learning Journey
Students do not get to their goal score without truly embracing the journey to get there. Students need to ask great questions, take genuine interest, and cultivate real curiosity and passion for mastering academic material, truly investing in the process of learning. The means to the end of a higher score is, in truth, the end in itself: to become a serious-minded, skilled, and prepared college ready student.
Whether it’s teaching, learning, parenting, or business, end goals follow from a thoughtful consideration of your means - how we get there, what we do every day to get there, what intrinsic value the process itself has. Be present in the moment, take a long view of progress, stick to your values, and take joy in the process of learning and improving incrementally.
Inspiring a Movement
Academic Approach hopes to inspire young people to take ownership of their education, to embrace every opportunity - even failure - to learn, and use those opportunities to develop long-term successful learning habits, resilience, and the capacity to adapt and evolve. Every student can learn with the right personalized feedback and direction. Your capacity to learn is boundless.
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