Clifton Corner : Academic Coaching

Welcome to the Clifton Corner ~

a very special place to learn and grow. . . !

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We provide a unique approach to education...

through Social & Emotional Intelligence:

The Clifton Corner is an innovative learning center that coordinates a variety of ingredients to support and celebrate individual students. By integrating skills of Social and Emotional Intelligence through training at Yale University, we cultivate Corner Competencies of empathy, resiliency, curiosity, courage, and creativity. The difference at the Clifton Corner is similar to the one we see in modern medicine: people usually book their required appointments with doctors, but often only seek help when there is a crisis. Western medicine focuses on fixing the most prominent problem and masking other symptoms that may be complications. Holistic medicine, on the other hand, seeks to promote ongoing, healthy habits and focuses on the whole individual, rather than sick symptoms: a successful client actively participates in his/her health by making different choices with exercise, diet, and rest.

The same is true for clients of Clifton Corner: we are centered with a more Eastern approach to holistic learning, where the student is not dissected with skills and charts or numbers that categorize his/her strengths and weaknesses in each subject. Instead, clients at the Corner are treated as gifted learners and empowered to seek new ways to make healthy decisions concerning daily preparation for class, develop new tools for thinking, and create innovative approaches to problem-solving. An independent, critical thinker emerges as a result, instead of a stressed student who is anxiety-ridden about the next academic “hoop” he/she will have to tackle.

We empower students to recognize and exercise their academic potential, intellectual possibility, and personal power. Through creating a safe space to explore facets of multiple intelligence, students develop tools for life-long learning as they engage in deeper reflection, increased risk-taking, and authentic relationships--both with themselves and their larger community.

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