If you are ready to register your child for The Learning Blueprint, please submit the checkout form above.

After your payment is processed, you will receive an email from LME Global within 24 hours with instructions regarding how to provide your child’s contact information and select one of our upcoming sessions.

Once you enroll your child in The Learning Blueprint, they will become part of a cohort that goes through the full program over a six-week period.

All of the program lectures, materials and activities will be accessed digitally through our password-protected learning portal.

From Monday through Thursday, your child will receive an email outlining the specific steps they must take to complete that day's activities.

Each day will include approximately 35 minutes of required activity, with additional resources available for those students who'd like to dig deeper into certain topics.

If your child falls behind or misses a day for whatever reason, they will have ample time to get caught up during the off-days, Friday through Sunday.

Also, if for whatever reason your child cannot adhere to the six-week schedule, they will have the opportunity to join another cohort and/or go through the program on a self-guided basis.

The total time commitment for the is approximately two hours per week – spread out over Monday through Thursday – for six weeks.

The Learning Blueprint is delivered in short, bite-sized sessions so that even the busiest of children should be able to complete the program without issue.

As an example, we’ve had busy college students successfully complete the program even during sessions that overlapped with midterm and final exam weeks.

Note: Scheduling considerations aside, we've intentionally designed the program to be slowly ‘dripped-out’ in bite-sized sessions because it is conducive to deep, meaningful learning.

In other words, we do NOT permit students to ‘binge’ the program, which research has consistently shown will impair memory and hinder the learning process.

After you submit payment, your child will have perpetual access to The Learning Blueprint program and the bonus items located in their password-protected learning portal.

However, if you choose to return and refund the program, your child will lose this access.

Right now, we are offering a steep discount for The Learning Blueprint because we recently upgraded and expanded the entire program, and we wanted to create an irresistible offer for the re-launch.

We know how much value students took from the original version, and we thought it would be generous to give newcomers a low-risk opportunity to access Dr. Horvath's transformative insight.

Plus – in the spirit of being fully transparent – LME Global does offer an amazing Science of Learning PD program for teachers and educators (you can click here to learn more) ...

And perhaps after your child successfully completes the metacognition program you will consider passing our information along to the decision makers at your child’s school so we can chat with them about their professional development goals and discuss how our program might fit in.

At this point, we don't have a specific timetable for the discounted re-launch pricing.

We've decided to keep this offer open-ended for now – but we will reinstate the normal pricing at some point in the future.

But regardless, it's never too early to invest in your child’s future ... so we urge you to take action now while you are here and it's top-of-mind.

Even though we've created a veritable ‘no-brainer’ offer that will deliver value to your child which far exceeds anything that can be measured in dollars, the fact is a lot of people will still be skeptical.

And that's good. You should be skeptical – it's a clear sign of intelligence.

Besides, we’re not so arrogant to believe that everyone will love this program. The truth is, nothing is for everyone. Heck, it's estimated that over 6 million Americans alone don't even use a toothbrush!

So, we’re taking all the risk off the table by offering a full 30-day money-back guarantee.

This means you can register your child for the program today, and if 29 days, 23 hours and 59 minutes from now you want to return it for any reason, just let us know and we will refund you in full.

No questions asked; no hassle.

We want to make sure you're completely happy with your purchase, otherwise we don't want your money. It's that simple.

And sure, some parents will abuse this policy ...

But because we believe so much in the importance of developing strong metacognitive skills – and because we've seen firsthand the incredibly positive impact it can have on students – we're willing to accept that outcome if it means that more people get exposure to this great program.

The great investor Warren Buffet famously said, “Never test the depth of a river with both feet” ... and with this essentially risk-free offer, we’re giving you the chance to keep one foot firmly planted on dry ground!

If you register your child for The Learning Blueprint through this special-offer page, your child will receive two valuable bonuses alongside The Learning Blueprint metacognition program:

Bonus #1 | The Academic Writing Advantage Course

If your child is anything like most students, we guarantee they will not be able to thank you enough for this bonus …

And that’s because writing essays in high-school and college can be hard! It is challenging and unnatural, and often causes feelings of nausea, dizziness and stomach cramps.

And that’s why we created this course. We want to rescue your child from this pain and suffering that we all experienced!

Academic writing is much different than just about every other type of writing, and once your child learns the predictable formulas that drive it, it will become much easier, much faster, and much less stressful.

Regardless of what grade level your child is in, they can take the ideas and templates from this course, and start applying them to their very next writing assignment.

Bonus #2 | Certification + Accreditation

After your child successfully completes The Learning Blueprint, we’ll send them three things: 

1. A Certificate of Completion which they can proudly hang on their bedroom wall … or use as a coaster, depending on their personality

2. A short skills statement they can add to their college application and/or resume

3. A digital accreditation badge they can add to their LinkedIn profile and/or any student profile accounts they may have.

“The illiterate of the future will not be those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and re-learn.” | Alvin Toffler, American Writer and Businessman
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There is a wealth of scientific research demonstrating that students who learn about metacognition and develop the ability to step into the driver’s seat of their own mind perform better in school AND outside of school. 

Yes, these students have higher rates of college admission and college graduation, but they also end up landing better jobs, forging better careers, earning higher salaries, and – believe it or not – experiencing lower rates of divorce.
 

If you are unfamiliar with metacognition, here are some helpful resources you can review:
 

https://ctl.columbia.edu/resources-and-technology/resources/metacognition
https://www.highspeedtraining.co.uk/hub/metacognition-in-the-classroom
https://www.lifescied.org/doi/10.1187/cbe.20-12-0289
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7271925

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SELECTED RESEARCH

Data from several large-scale research studies have demonstrated that explicit instruction in metacognition and the learning process (generally) can dramatically improve a number of student outcomes, including: academic performance1; long term memory retention2; self-efficacy3; and motivation4. Recent research with The Learning Blueprint (specifically) has demonstrated a significant increase in student-reported confidence, agency, and utilization of high-impact learning strategies. 

1 - Cook, E., Kennedy, E., & McGuire, S. Y. (2013). Effect of teaching metacognitive learning strategies on performance in general chemistry courses. Journal of Chemical Education, 90(8), 961-967.

2 - de Boer, H., Donker, A. S., Kostons, D. D., & van der Werf, G. P. (2018). Long-term effects of metacognitive strategy instruction on student academic performance: A meta-analysis. Educational Research Review, 24, 98-115.

3 - Schmidt, A. M., & Ford, J. K. (2003). Learning within a learner control training environment: The interactive effects of goal orientation and metacognitive instruction on learning outcomes. Personnel Psychology, 56(2), 405-429.

4 - Zepeda, C. D., Richey, J. E., Ronevich, P., & Nokes-Malach, T. J. (2015). Direct instruction of metacognition benefits adolescent science learning, transfer, and motivation: An in vivo study. Journal of Educational Psychology, 107(4), 954.

With The Learning Blueprint, your child will develop the capacity to perform better academically, apply knowledge to novel situations, engage in higher-order thinking, solve problems more efficiently, collaborate more effectively, and meaningfully plan for the future.

KEY TOPICS COVERED

• Metacognition
• Learning How To Learn
• The Brain + Neuroplasticity
• The Mechanics of Thought
• The Truth About Intelligence
• Creativity + Innovation
• Foundational Learning
• Errors + Mistakes
• Deep Learning
• Memory Mechanics
• Focus + Attention
• Time Management
• Goal Management
• Stress Management
• Personal Wellbeing
• Mindfulness
• Classroom Strategies
• Lecture Strategies
• Exam Strategies
• Study Strategies

KEY SKILLS DEVELOPED

• Expanded Learning Capacity
• Increased Learning Rate
• Enhanced Memory/Information Retention
• Improved Focus and Attention Control
• Stress and Failure Coping Strategies
• Academic Strategies
• Goal-Setting Strategies
• Time-Management Strategies
• Wellbeing and Self-Management Strategies
• Relationship Strategies
• Motivation and Engagement
• Independent Thinking
• Deep, Critical Thinking
• Mental Adaptiveness
• Self-Reliance
• Personal Awareness
• Emotional Intelligence
• Expanded Competence
• Conscientiousness
• Elevated Mindset
• Personal Agency

100% yes!

Consider your own situation. What new skills have you had to pick up so far in your career? What will you need to master next in order to reach your goals? How about in a year or five years from now?

Those may be hard questions to answer. The world of work is changing so rapidly, as emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automation change job requirements. As technologies continue to evolve and business conditions shift, employees must stay in learning mode so their skills don’t lose currency.

There’s so much uncertainty and ambiguity around the future of work, it doesn’t matter your industry or job function. That’s why, when anyone asks what the next ‘hot’ skill will be, we say it’s the same skill that will serve people today, tomorrow, and far into the future – the ability to learn.  

Even if you don’t know exactly what you’ll need to learn, you can’t go wrong embracing the idea that you’ll have to learn something. It doesn’t matter if you graduated from college last week or 10 years ago. The ability and willingness to continually build new knowledge and skills could spell the difference between a continuous upward trajectory and a career plateau.

And, of course, the recent global pandemic has accelerated the rapid change in the jobs and skills market. Today’s students will soon be entering a workforce that is far more fluid and volatile than the one we entered.

Consider these two eye-opening stats from the World Economic Forum (The Future of Jobs Report):

• 50% of all global employees will need re-skilling by 2025.
• 40% of current workers' core skills are expected to change in the next 5 years.

To optimize the chance that our children will find sustained success in the future workplace, the single most important skill of all – the one we should be prioritizing above all others – is learning how to learn.

No longer will employees be able to fill up their ‘knowledge tank’ over 15 years of schooling and take off. Instead, they will have to continuously refuel over the course of their professional career.

And make no mistake – this trend is certainly reflected in the nature of professional skills that employers are now demanding from their workforce …

You can click here to view a tweet that illustrates this point ;)

As we’ve already discussed, metacognition is not explicitly taught in schools.

Setting aside the political, logistical and ideological reasons for this, the fact is that schools are now facing reduced funding to integrate new subjects and/or programs into their curriculum … which means the chances that your child’s school will begin teaching metacognition anytime soon is close to zero (particularly if they are in a public school).

And this obviously means that the burden to teach our children important subjects that extend beyond the realm of what the state deems to be ‘common core’ is falling directly on the shoulders of parents.

So, from that perspective, The Learning Blueprint offers an invaluable resource for parents who want to take back control and make sure their child receives expertly-delivered exposure to powerful ideas and skills that will serve them in-and-beyond the classroom.

Private tutoring in a major and quickly-growing market across the globe.

According to BMO Capital Markets, the total U.S. spend on K-12 tutoring services exceeds $7 billion per year!

Now, if we as parents are so willing to spend this much money to help our children regurgitate facts and figures that they won’t remember in a week, shouldn’t we also be willing to spend money helping our children develop the types of skills and mindsets that will serve them for a lifetime?

To be clear, we are not suggesting these tutoring dollars are poorly spent. Our children – for better or worse – exist in a system where letter grades and standardized tests rule the day. So, helping them achieve success in this system is obviously important.

We’re merely suggesting that good grades and high-test scores should not be the end-all-be-all … and that we as parents should be focused on helping our children succeed beyond the test.

In our estimation, The Learning Blueprint has proven so effective for three primary reasons.

First, nothing we teach is theoretical. The concepts we explore are foundations of metacognition supported by a wealth of brain and behavioral research. In this instance, when we say ‘research’, we don’t mean a single obscure study from 1970 conducted with rats in the Siberian wilderness. We mean well-characterized, well-replicated research spanning decades of scientific toil.

Second, whenever Dr. Horvath steps into the role of ‘teacher’, he adheres to a basic maxim: if he cannot get his students to experience a concept, then he does not yet truly understand that concept himself. As such, The Learning Blueprint includes a complement of effective learning devices to ensure that students truly experience the concepts we explore, including interactive lectures, guided reviews, reflection questions, recall exercises, recognition quizzes and application activities.

And third, The Learning Blueprint was designed with intent. In other words, as experts in the learning process, we’ve leveraged what we know will work when it comes to making sure your child actually learns and internalizes the concepts we teach.

This is important, because we know through ample research that learning is not a spectator sport. Watching a lecture and expecting to learn is not far off from looking at food and expecting to get its nutrients. We must digest our learning experiences just like we digest our food … and without some form of active processing, almost everything we learn is lost within days.

CAVEAT! Even though The Learning Blueprint it optimized to deliver maximum value in minimal time, it won’t work if your child doesn’t do the work.

Just like buying a gym membership doesn’t make you healthier if you don’t actually go to the gym and exercise, your child won’t develop the skills we teach if they don’t commit the necessary time and effort to completing the simple (but important) activities we outline during the term of the program. 

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BONUS REASON: THE POWER OF ‘WHY’

While most students are exposed to the idea that embracing a learning-and-growth mindset is important, few are ever taught WHY it’s important – let alone HOW they can take steps to practically apply this idea.

And, unfortunately, without a compelling why, simply sharing this idea with students is mostly useless. It’s like planting a potent seed without giving it adequate water and sunlight.

So, with The Learning Blueprint, we address the WHY up front by taking students on an illuminating tour of the brain, and helping them understand what learning actually means on a literal level.

During this process, students are forced to confront many common myths and misunderstandings about learning that may be stifling their potential.

But more importantly, they discover WHY learning is such a vital skill, and WHY (despite what they may currently believe) they are in control the process.

Then – only after we’ve established the necessary belief and buy-in – do we tackle the HOW of learning.

During the second part of the program, students are exposed to deep learning practices, the mechanics of memory, the imperative of errors and mistakes, powerful study and classroom-success tactics, proven self-management strategies, and much more.

By teaching students the WHY and HOW of learning – and by helping them take ownership of the process – The Learning Blueprint is a uniquely powerful tool for deepening student engagement and supporting academic success.

Absolutely!

Research has overwhelmingly shown that learning key metacognitive skills is highly valuable for students of all academic levels and abilities. 

Regardless of whether your child is an academic high-achiever, or generally struggles in a traditional school setting, he/she stands to benefit from a strong metacognition program.

Moreover, if your child doesn’t consider themselves to be good at certain academic tasks like studying and test-taking, don't worry ... these are absolutely learned skills!

Metacognition – along with all of the many associated benefits – is a teachable superpower that any student can develop. Contrary to many people think, we are not born good or bad at certain skills, nor do we lose the ability to master new skills once we reach a certain age.

In fact, thanks to the study of neuroplasticity, scientists have discovered that the brain changes and adapts throughout life. The intense repetition of any task creates new, stronger neural pathways … and as a person becomes an expert in a particular discipline – be it music, sports, public speaking, studying, test-taking, etc. – the areas of the brain associated with this discipline actually grow.

Dr. Horvath says, “We all get better at what we do repeatedly” ... and if your child explicitly learns and practices key metacognitive skills as we direct them to do through The Learning Blueprint, the areas of the brain associated with these skills will become stronger and more developed.

So, what does this mean? It means everyone (including your child) has the capacity to be ‘good at school’.

However, if your child does currently consider themselves to be poor in this area, it also means that now is the time to take action so they can immediately start the process of getting better through strategic learning, practice and repetition.

So much of the rhetoric and reform in our education systems over the past 30+ years have been remedial in scope. It’s been mainly focused on addressing shortcomings among students, teachers, schools and entire districts. 

And this isn’t a bad thing … it is important to make sure all students have the opportunity to receive a good education regardless of their socioeconomic circumstances. And generally speaking, we’ve successfully raised the floor of the US education.

 
But what about the ceiling? It seems that as a country we’ve become so preoccupied with serving the least advantaged, that we’ve neglected to support the full potential of those students who are at the high end of academic achievement.

And perhaps this is why such students generally come supportive, nurturing families. It is generally assumed that supportive parenting is the cause of strong academic performance, but as we all know correlation is not causation. 

Perhaps these high-achieving students have parents who are involved with their educational path precisely because these parents recognize that their children aren’t receiving appropriate support in the current school system, and they step in to fill-in this ‘challenge gap’.

If you fall into this category, The Learning Blueprint is perfect for your child!

Not only will it deliver a powerful ‘mental model’ that is not explicitly taught in schools, but it will introduce them to several important concepts and strategies that they can wrestle with and ultimately integrate into their academic and personal routines.

To be honest, there is no real competition for our program. We are not only the best in class, we are the only in class.

This might sound like bragging, but it’s true.

Go ahead and Google ‘Student Metacognition Program’. You’ll find no shortage of articles touting the benefits of teaching students metacognitive skills, as well as some resources aimed at helping teachers integrate metacognition in the classroom (including our very own award-winning Science of Learning teacher program) … but you won’t find any explicit, comprehensive metacognition programs designed specifically for adolescent students.

And, even if you do find such a program, we are supremely confident that The Learning Blueprint will deliver superior results for your child.

So, from that perspective, our main competition is inaction … and this is why we are offering a full 30-Day Money Back Guarantee.

If you’re on the fence about taking advantage of our offer, we urge you to take action and at least give your child an opportunity to try our program.

You can register your child for today, and if 29 days, 23 hours and 59 minutes from now you decide it’s not for you, just let us know and we will refund you in full.

We’re taking all the risk off the table.

The Learning Blueprint is not for everybody – only serious parents and students who understand the immense power and personal freedom that strong metacognitive skills can deliver; who appreciate that the best way to take ownership of this super-skill is to truly understand the WHY that drives it; and who are willing to commit themselves to actually applying what they learn.

As the great American thinker Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "The man who knows HOW will always have a job; the man who knows WHY will always be his boss" ...

And with Dr. Horvath, your child has a rare opportunity to peak under the hood of the human mind and discover the WHY that drives human thinking, learning and memory.

Generally speaking, when people ask about practicality of The Learning Blueprint, they are specifically referring to two things: will the skills my child develops be measurable, and will they be immediate? 

The answer to both of these questions is, in some respects, absolutely. 

There are aspects of the program (study strategies; exam strategies; classroom strategies; etc.) that your child will be able to immediately leverage in school, which will in turn produce measurable results in the form of higher test scores and better grades.

However, in other respects, the answer to both of these questions is a definitive no … and that’s a good thing. 
The explicit academic strategies are nice, but we consider these to be the least valuable aspects of The Learning Blueprint, as it is SO MUCH MORE than short-term tips and tactics.

The most valuable aspects of the program, which we’ve already outlined, are the ones that will be more difficult to measure, and will take more time to fully-integrate … but are the ones that will help your child thrive long, long after they’ve finished up their schooling.

The importance of developing strong metacognition skills cannot be overstated.

Metacognition is a true ‘amplifier’ skill that will serve your child in so many rich and immeasurable ways: it will sharpen them; build confidence and power; accelerate their results; and provides a unique sense of security.

It may be the best ‘success secret’ there is!

Plus, it's a timeless skill that can never be taken away. Most skills can (and will) eventually be rendered valueless ... but strong metacognitive skills will always be in demand, and will always give your child a major advantage over their peers.

Aside from the many benefits we’ve already outlined, consider the significant advantages of compounding improvement.

As an adult, you have the benefit of decades of experience, trial and error, success and failure, deliberation, growth and adaptation – and you now more than likely take your advanced skills for granted.

As human beings, we are not particularly good at considering the immense amount of time, effort and resources we had to expend in the past in order to shape we people we are in the present.

Now your child, left to their own devices, will over time experience the same type of positive growth and development.

But imagine the massive advantage you’ll be giving them if you provide the tools and knowledge they need to accelerate this process starting right now?

Consider how much further along they will be 10, 20, 30 years from now if they start implementing a proven framework for learning and personal development today.

It’s much like saving for your retirement. Regardless of whether you begin investing in your retirement account when you are 20 years old or 40 years old, you’re making an extremely wise decision.

But consider how great of an advantage the person who begins investing when they are 20 has over the person who begins at 40 – all with no additional time or effort.

They realize the incredible benefit of compounding interest; of having their money always work for them 24/7/365, quietly in the background, without any additional energy expended.

Well, the same phenomenon applies when it comes to growth and personal development. When you child learns and integrates key metacognitive skills at a young age, they realize the benefit of these skills for the rest of their life.

One easy way to conceptualize this idea is to compare two hypothetical children: one who has not integrated important key metacognitive skills (Child A) and one who has (Child B).

Let’s imagine both children must make 10 important decisions every day.

Child A, being an average child with a normal decision-making capacity, makes 6 out of 10 correct decision each day.

But Child B, who’s possesses the many critical mental advantages that leaning metacognition confers, makes 7 out of 10 correct decisions each day.

This may seem like a trivial difference, but over the course of a decade, Child B will make over 3,600 more correct decision compared to Child A.

Plus, Child B will be better equipped to learn and grow from their many incorrect decisions … so that by the time they are an adult, they are making 8 or 9 out of 10 correct decisions each day.

This is the power of compounding improvement! 

Contrary to what neuroscientists previously believed, emerging research is revealing more and more that the adolescent brain is a critical period for the reorganization of regulatory systems – a reorganization that is fraught with both opportunities and risks.

It turns out that adolescents have brains that are much more capable of change compared to adults … and unlike young children, they have the power to consciously shape HOW their brains develop.

What lies at the core of adolescent cognitive development is the attainment of a more fully conscious, self-regulating mind, achieved principally through the potential assembly of an advanced ‘executive suite’ of capabilities (which would include metacognition).

And while the opportunities here are self-evident, the risks concern the fact that these executive skills emerge relatively later in the brain’s development. Because of this later-stage development, these skills are less likely to be fully-realized (to the same degree as, say, early language acquisition), which presents an increased risk for suboptimal trajectories.

Accordingly, it’s easy to see why an adolescent learning intervention like The Learning Blueprint can prove so valuable, as it can serve to focus this crucial stage of neural development in a manner that is both constructive and intentional.

In other words, what your child does or doesn’t do during these years will have a major impact on their future, and exposing them to a program like The Learning Blueprint can greatly improve the odds they take control of their development and focus on constructive activities.

The general opinion among parents – in America and elsewhere – is that the cost of a college education today is too high.

According to the Education Data Initiative, the average cost of a single college class in America now ranges between $1,200 to $6,400 – depending on what costs you choose to factor. Multiply that times 40 classes over four years, and it's easy to see how a college degree can become so costly.

And yet, despite this huge rise in costs, college graduation rates have remained flat over the past 15+ years.

However, what if the problem isn’t that college tuition costs are too high?

Instead, what is the problem but that our institutions of higher-learning are not actually teaching our children how to learn efficiently and think critically; how to adequately manage themselves; how to take agency over their own success?

Because if they WERE teaching these things effectively, imagine how much more valuable and productive our children would be once they entered the job market. Imagine how much higher their earning potential would be right out of the gate.

If this were the case, few people would be scoffing at the price of college (exorbitant as it may be), because we could be confident that our children would quickly earn it back on the other side.

So, from that perspective, it’s plain to see that the main problem with college is not actually one of cost, but one of financial return.

The reason many parents today scoff at the price of college tuition is because colleges simply are not delivering enough value on their own to deliver an adequate return on this large financial investment.

However, this again is a general observation.

In reality, the return that your child will realize on their college experience (financial and otherwise) is mostly dependent on them, and how they choose to manage their time and effort.

Over three decades of research has revealed that the key differentiator between high-and-low performing students is metacognition.

Those who possess the ability to understand, recognize and direct their own learning process typically excel in academic settings, while those without them often struggle – especially at the university level and beyond, where teacher scaffolds and supports are removed.

And so, it’s easy to understand why a program like The Learning Blueprint – the cost of which is trivial in comparison to that of college – can deliver such a massive return on investment.

In fact, if you are if you are currently (or soon will be) spending money on your child's college education, it would almost be malpractice not to invest in this program.

It would be like buying your child a new Ferrari without teaching them how to drive ;)

Do you have a question that we haven't addressed in this FAQ section?

Please reach out and let us know ... we obviously can't anticipate every question, and we would love to hear from you so we can address yours specifically.

Plus, getting your input and feedback is the only way we can "fix our blind spots" and get better at helping the people we seek to serve.

You can always email us at info@lmeglobal.net, or call us directly at 702-970-6557.

We look forward to hearing from you!