At this year’s IECA conference, Dr. Belle Liang from Boston College shared a framework that I haven’t been able to stop thinking about. She describes three mindsets that shape how young people approach their lives: performance, passion, and purpose. You probably know the first one well. Performance is the mindset your parents grew up with. […]
By Carol Wang | Novellea Education In late March, I attended Lawrenceville School’s Discovering Day — a special orientation event for newly admitted students and their families. Lawrenceville is one of the oldest and most prestigious boarding schools in the United States, with nearly 200 years of history. There were tours, faculty panels, Q&As. But
Songyan Jiang (Hua) | Novellea Education | March 20, 2026 “What should my child study?” It’s the question I hear most from families. But lately, even colleagues in college admissions counseling are asking each other: with AI moving this fast, will the advice we give today still mean anything in four years? There used to
In my late twenties, I moved to China on a life adventure — no particular plan, just a sense that something interesting was waiting. I stumbled into education consulting almost by accident. And then I couldn’t stop. What hooked me wasn’t the prestige of the outcomes. It was the work itself: sitting with a teenager
