Family Educational Advising
Educational planning and advising for families. Serving families with students in grades K-12.
This partnership includes an initial assessment for the student and continues with monthly sessions with parent(s) and/or student for a year long engagement. RD3 will keep you and your student on a wise educational track that fits your family educational goals, your values and your budget.
Admission Office Leadership Advising
The Center offers mentoring, coaching, and advising for admission professionals leading their offices.
This partnership is ideal for newly appointed Deans/Directors. Advising can be for increments of three months at a time, but a year long partnership is ideal. This partnership can be customized to the needs of the office and leadership.
Student and Family Educational Advising
Educational planning and advising for families, including a student engagement component. Serving families with students in grades 5-12.
RD3 will serve as your family's educational adviser for your student as well as a mentor, adviser and coach for the student as they navigate through key developmental stages. This service includes regular (bi-monthly) sessions with goals, growth and development plans and follow up. RD3 will keep you and your child on a wise educational track that fits your educational goals, your values and your budget, whatever the path may be: public, private, day, boarding , home-school, online school etc. RD3 will work with parent(s) and individually with the student to identify and help develop key character skills that will help them succeed whatever their path.
Character Program Advising for schools
RD3 Education Center offers he evaluation & advising to schools in both their school programming around character & values development as well as how to consider integrating character assessment (if appropriate) in their admission process as a way to emphasize important elements of the school to prospective families.
Educational sessions/professional development accompany this work for both faculty and students.
Speaking Engagements
Ray Diffley delivers talks to schools, groups, teams or organizations about character, character development, assessing character as well as the educational planning and development journey. His experiences allow for a range of applications of this work and each talk can be customized to the occasion. Please call to explore.
Interview & AQ ®
(Articulation Quotient) Training
Intensive training in interviewing, public speaking & expression. "IQ" and "EQ" mean very little without a high AQ ®!
If ideas are the currency of the 21st century, then one's ability to communicate is critical in all aspects of life. While the primary focus of this work is on preparing for an admission interview, there is no doubt an ability to articulate oneself is key these days to advancing in most domains be it in education, business or personal relationships. With so much "noise" in our world, we often don't have long to make a first impression. Even if we do, one must (authentically and in one's own voice and style) continue to impress to be heard. This is where raising your AQ ® (Articulation Quotient) is key.
Educational Advising & Character Development Partnerships with schools, organizations & companies
This partnership supports families & students at companies or organizations interested in educational planning and advice. Whatever the k-12 journey, be it public or private school on the road to college and higher education. There is a great need for information about pathways and choices along the way as children grow and develop their character into young adulthood and college ready.