Successful people use “power skills” to excel academically and socially. The future success of students depends on their building a combination of curricular hard skills and personal soft skills. Yet many of today's students are missing the foundations for these skills: mindset, organizational skills, and leadership. Let's examine the problem together and generate a plan of action to ensure that our students and their parents/guardians can work together to achieve success in the classroom, at home, and in life.