Academic Transformations

12/17/2025

Graduation is success in goal setting!

12/06/2025

SAT students testing today!
Go get ‘em! 💪❤️👍

10/18/2025

SAT prep becomes fun, social and promotes confidence!

Bring on the college challenge- nothing like feeling ready.

10/01/2025

An inspiration for women - a legend in her own time! Thank you for all the lessons.
RIP Jane Goodall

Dr. Jane Goodall, the famed chimpanzee researcher, has died. She was 91.

http://www.13newsnow.com/article/news/nation-world/chimpanzee-researcher-jane-goodall-dies/507-162cb449-cd29-44e1-adf0-4055d0ed8320?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_13News_Now_-_WVEC

09/07/2025

Exciting breakthrough in understanding Autism!

Why is it increasing?
Are toxins affecting the rate?
Why is it higher in boys than girls?

Hope that science is getting closer🙏

🧠 Stanford researchers just reversed autism-like symptoms in mice by targeting one overlooked brain region—the reticular thalamic nucleus (RTN).

The RTN acts as a gatekeeper for sensory input. In mice modeling autism, it was found to be hyperactive, driving symptoms such as:

• Hypersensitivity to sounds and touch

• Social withdrawal

• Seizures

• Repetitive behaviors

By reducing this overactivity—using both an experimental seizure drug (Z944) and a brain-modulating technique called DREADD—scientists were able to restore typical behavior patterns. Even more striking: when researchers artificially increased RTN activity in healthy mice, they developed autism-like behaviors, showing how central this brain region may be.

The study also offers new insight into why epilepsy often co-occurs with autism, since both may involve disrupted thalamic circuitry.

⚡ While still in preclinical stages, this breakthrough points to a promising path for future, biology-based autism treatments. If confirmed in humans, it could represent one of the most precise therapeutic targets discovered so far.

📖 Source: Sung-Soo Jang, Fuga Takahashi & John R. Huguenard (2025). Reticular thalamic hyperexcitability drives autism spectrum disorder behaviors in the Cntnap2 model of autism. Science Advances.

08/04/2025

Yes, Dr. Becky!

08/04/2025

College readiness needs to begin in 10th grade, or sooner, ideally.

Supplemental college prep practice - from a qualified Learning Coach, like

Lisa Crosby, M.E.
Math through Calculus
Math specialist with:test anxiety, dysgraphia and other challenges
Literacy Specialist: high school English, AP English
Reading specialist to repair issues including dyslexia.
Physics, Chemistry and Physical Science
- due to her Engineeringring background
College Applications - International
Test prep: SAT, ACT, GRE, & others

Author: The Struggling Student: The Action Plan for Parents to Unlock Academic Potential, 2022

32 years experience educating

www.academictransformations.com

06/26/2025

Helping graduates qualify for their dreams, that is what we do! Brenna worked so hard to increase her SAT score and qualified for the Nevada Millennium Presidential Scholarship, worth $8,000 per year towards her college tuition.
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Brenna is excited to study Mechanical Engineering! Congratulations Brenna!🎓

06/26/2025

Sharing an appreciative client text to Lisa Crosby, M.Ed:

Lisa - My son is responding really, REALLY well to your new strategies....It is obvious to us now that he has been practically begging us in a non-verbal way to allow him to grow up. I can tell that he is very proud of himself. We are so grateful to you, and we are full of hope thanks to your first Executive Function training session. Thank you!!

Thanks again. You are amazing!!

*Sometimes our transformation includes illuminating parenting strategies needed to support an academic priority at home and the growth of needed skills and strategies in their student.

06/18/2025

Fuel confidence and resilience by believing in your kids.

Helpful parent phrases

Remember to promote a Growth Mindset, compliment the EFFORT not the results or grades!

Effort and perseverance is what to promote- to get them through life’s harsh challenges.👍

Best gift a parent can give!

06/17/2025

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