The Project Arc.
A talk for parents on how young people build the real, documented work that wins university admissions, told through twenty years of real students. Free for schools, delivered in person.
Real students, real stories
A teenager who ran the business side of a dumpling stall and wrote his way into Harvard on it. A student whose string of failed apps carried her into Berkeley. Twenty years of students who got in on who they became, not on a longer activity list.
The arc, ages 10 to 17
How a child goes from a spark at ten to a finished, documented body of work by seventeen: what the years in between are actually for, and what parents can do at each stage without becoming the project manager.
What admissions actually reads
What selective universities can and cannot see in an application, why sustained self chosen work outweighs polish, and why the record of it has to be built as it happens rather than reconstructed in the final year.
- 1A full parent evening slot, delivered, at no cost to the school.
- 2A speaker who has placed hundreds of students into top universities over twenty years and founded an international school himself.
- 3A practical session, not a sales pitch: no product is presented from the stage.
- 4An optional separate session for your counseling team, same visit, also free.
The format is forty five minutes plus questions, in your hall or auditorium, scheduled around an existing parent evening wherever possible. Sessions run in English.
Eric Gonzalez-Payne
Harvard Ed.M. in Educational Leadership. Founder of an international school. Twenty years in project based education across the world, with more than four hundred students placed into leading universities, and over ten thousand teachers trained along the way.
Eric travels between cities across Asia through the school year. If he is coming to yours, the talk is easiest to arrange while he is nearby.
Invite the talk.
Tell us your school, your city, and the term you have in mind. If you would rather start smaller, ask for the counseling team session instead.