Overview

Academic Coaching focuses on essential learning skills known as Executive Functions. These processes are multi-dimensional – many moving parts, nuances, and coordination. Executive Functions are diverse and overlapping; they are critical to learning. More on Executive Function and common signs of Executive Function difficulties.

These Executive Functions include:

• Flexible Thinking and Shift
• Emotional Regulation
• Initiation and Goal-Setting
• Task Prioritization
• Focus and Time Management
• Making Connections
• Critical Thinking
• Engaged Learning
• Working Memory
• Active Retrieval (long term memory)
• Self-Monitoring

With Academic Coaching, we use your student's current school assignments, projects, and tests as an instructional platform for modeling and practicing specific methods and strategies that help support task initiation, homework completion, project management, effective studying, and executive functions to optimize learning.

Programs are designed for each student based on diagnostic assessment findings, including comprehensive parent and student intake. Students and families report that they find Academic Coaching helpful and even "transformative."

With an Educational Therapy lens, our goals with Academic Coaching are to:

• Identify what may be interfering with the student's learning and potential
• Help them understand how they learn
• Model and teach research-based skills and strategies for active learning
• Learn and practice skills and strategies that draw on areas of strength
• Learn and practice skills and strategies to overcome areas of vulnerability and ineffective habits
• Empower learners by increasing motivation and autonomy