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At Novella Prep, we deliver results. Our expert team of Teachers and Advisors is dedicated to your holistic success, going beyond simply improving grades or getting you into your Early Decision college (as any good advisor should). We provide personalized support in crucial areas, from study skills and executive function coaching to college application guidance, ensuring you thrive throughout your academic career and beyond.
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Optimizing Student Engagement and Learning
Give your educators and counselors the tools to better support students—whether high-performing, uncertain, or neurodivergent. Backed by experience from top universities and work across 40+ school districts, Novella Prep’s professional development programs help schools enhance outcomes and student well-being.
About the Founder
With 20 years of experience working in admissions, development, teaching, and researching, Novella Prep founder and educator Dr. Di Giacomo brings a depth of relevant knowledge to families.
“An application is not a stand-alone exercise that a senior completes. The application should harvest a series of decisions that goes back many years.”
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Novella Prep Featured on NBC New York’s “Better Get Baquero”
We are thrilled to announce that Novella Prep was recently featured on NBC New York’s popular segment “Better Get Baquero”! This segment highlights a recent college test scam, and our advice to protect yourself from these fraudulent phone calls. We are honored to have been recognized for our commitment to helping students achieve their college dreams.
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Novella Prep is proud to have fully credentialed experts on our staff. Our comprehensive experience in academics, admissions, and other fields allows us to provide authentic, experienced guidance for the needs of any student.
Yes. Novella Prep’s advisors work closely with students to develop a college plan that works for them. Whether we’re helping you create a college list, identifying academic strategies to strengthen certain areas, or preparing you for admissions, everything is customized to your needs and goals.
We work directly with students by teaching them tools and strategies to enhance their executive functioning skills. These include time management, planning and organization skills, proactive communication, task prioritization, problem-solving, reasoning, and analysis. We take a step-by-step approach to completing tasks, and work with students to organize their time, plan tasks more effectively, and encourage them to ask questions when they need clarification.
Our study skills program helps to improve grades and academic performance, and it can also help students after graduation. Novella’s Study Skills, along with our Executive Functioning coaching, lay the foundation for success in careers and personal life.
Yes. While some people with ADHD experience symptoms of executive functioning, not everyone with an executive function disorder has ADHD.
Making the Most of The Essential Eight™
At Novella Prep, we have found that The Essential Eight™, a term we coined in 2022 to describe the second eight hours of a student’s day, is the single most significant opportunity in American education to improve student outcomes, such as academic achievement and social-emotional learning enrichment.
Discover Dr. Tony Di Giacomo’s new book, The Essential Eight: Balancing Childhood and Academics, a guide to helping students thrive in and out of the classroom.
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