EF COACHINg
Forgotten homework. Missed deadlines. Last-minute panic.
When students struggle with planning, organization, and follow-through despite understanding the work, executive function coaching provides the strategies and systems they need to succeed.
Beyond 'Just Use a Planner'
If color-coded planners and motivational posters worked, you wouldn't be here.
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Through our EF coaching for kids and teens, students develop practical skills in task initiation and follow-through. They learn to start assignments without resistance and maintain momentum when work feels overwhelming. They build personalized organizational systems for both physical materials and digital workflows that match how their brain actually works.
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We provide explicit instruction in time management and planning: helping them to estimate task duration, set realistic goals, work backwards from deadlines, and build in buffer time. By strengthening their prioritization and decision-making skills, we help students distinguish between urgent and important when everything feels pressing.
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Emotional regulation strategies for managing academic stress and anxiety are another key aspect of EF coaching alongside self-advocacy skills like how to ask for help, communicate their needs to teachers and parents, and adapt systems rather than abandon them.
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This isn't tutoring in disguise. It's skill-building that translates from middle school through college and career, changing how students approach everything from daily homework to long-term goals.
There Will Be Signs..
Executive function challenges don't show up on report cards as a single grade - they appear in daily patterns. If several of these sound familiar, your student may benefit from targeted skill-building support.
Finishes homework but forgets to turn it in all the time
Their backpack, bedroom, and locker are always a mess
Major meltdowns during transitions, workload or schedule changes
Chronically underestimates time needed
Waiting until last minute to start projects or assignments
Can focus on video games for hours but not homework for 10 minute​
Struggles to start homework even though they know what to do
Has big emotional reactions to small setbacks or feedback
Can't break big assignments into smaller steps
Putting EF Into Practice
We don't just hand students planners and hope for the best. Our coaching process systematically builds the executive function skills your student needs, using their actual schoolwork and creating systems that stick.​
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We assess current systems to identify where breakdowns actually happen—task initiation, organization, time awareness, planning, or emotional regulation around schoolwork.
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We build personalized strategies using your student's real assignments, creating organizational frameworks and time management tools that match how their brain works.
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We practice with real work so students learn by doing with coaching support, building muscle memory for new approaches.
We transfer ownership gradually, adjusting systems and shifting responsibility until your student can maintain strategies independently.
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We partner with parents through regular updates, home reinforcement strategies, and guidance on supporting without hovering.
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Sessions are flexible and personalized - weekly support, intensive transition coaching, or periodic check-ins as academic demands evolve.
Executive Function Coaching for ADHD, Autism, and Neurodivergent Students
Neurodivergent students - including those with ADHD, autism, dyslexia, and other learning differences - often need executive function support designed around how their brains actually work. Traditional organizational strategies don't account for differences in attention regulation, processing speed, or sensory needs.
Our coaching is neurodivergence-affirming: we don't force neurotypical systems, we co-create personalized strategies that honor your student's strengths and build sustainable skills that actually work for them.
