Creativity in Your Classwork: How to Motivate Yourself

By Taegan Hardy Quick! What’s your current favorite piece of media? For me, I love Formula 1. Now, I set a timer, play a driver’s hype music, and open my math homework. In my mind, I’m now an engineer, and I have to solve a certain number of problems before the timer is up in order to get our team’s car successfully working for the race. Fun, right? This is the technique that works best for me when I’m trying to get schoolwork done. Romanticizing my work has always been...
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How to Stay Motivated

By Caitlin Cruz Here’s the way I stay motivated through burnouts and day-to-day tasks. One of the first ways I stay motivated is by making lists. Lists help me a lot, even outside of school. Lists help by allowing me to see what I would like to do in a...
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How to Be Organized in Online School

By Ashlee Dodd Hello, and welcome to a written down guide on how to handle organization better for anyone’s schedule during online courses with ASUPD. Firstly, and I know any one of us are sometimes extremely tired of this happening, is getting overwhelmed by tons of assignments in a specific...
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Making Friends: Some advice. 

By Ysrael Hernandez Have you ever been in class and noticed it seems like everyone knows everyone but you? Have you ever been the new kid before? If you have, you might know how hard it is to spark a conversation. This has been my first year at ASU Prep...
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Student Success Story

By Taegan Hardy When I first read this prompt I couldn’t find anything I’d really accomplished—at least nothing recently. These past few years have been particularly rough when it came to my mental health. When I think about my so-called accomplishments I find myself falling into a rabbit hole filled with existentialistic dread....
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My Success Story

By Ysrael Hernandez I'm going to be honest here, I had no idea what to write about. After all, it has felt like I haven't had some giant "success story." I mean like, this is my first year at this school, and even at my old middle and elementary school,...
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Student Success – Geometry Skill Achievements

By Ashlee Dodd My main achievements in Geometry at ASUPD include learning and understanding concepts like the Intro to the Pythagorean Theorem, the Multiplicative Property of Signed Fractions, Segment Addition and Midpoints, and being able to identify Geometry terms such as Parallel and Perpendicular Lines, Naming Rays, Segments, and Lines,...
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