Similar to a sports coach who helps you learn the rules of the game and improve your strength, agility, coordination, and performance, your child’s Executive Function Coach helps them build the skills and capabilities everyone needs to perform well in school with greater ease and confidence. But rather than working on behalf of a team, they are solely here for you: your goals, your priorities, and your challenges. Many of the world’s most powerful founders, executives, and performers have coaches working with them in a similar way, using similar methods, to overcome their challenges and become more effective and confident in achieving their goals. You’re being given a special opportunity to develop yourself at a young age, and gain skills and habits that can see you through college and beyond. 

Yes. While understanding that no two students are the same, many of our coaches have experience working with neurodiversity. Our coaching method helps you create self-aware systems to support your specific needs and challenges when it comes to academic performance. You will develop Executive Functioning Skills, which can be challenging for everyone but particularly those with learning differences. When you learn to support your Executive Functioning, things like time blindness (underestimating or overestimating how long things take), attention struggles, anxiety and depression, or organization and prioritization difficulties, will be less of an obstacle to achieving your goals. And in Academic Coaching, rather than being prescribed one-size-fits-all solutions, you’ll be treated as the expert in your own needs. You’ll walk away with greater confidence in your ability to learn, perform, and produce great work on time independently. 

Your coach is going to help you work smarter, not harder, and manage your time in a way where you feel ahead and prepared for school — not constantly squeezing in more studying and scrambling to keep up with deadlines. We’ll figure out the coaching rhythm that works best for you and your schedule, whether that’s a few super short check-ins every week, or one longer session once a week. And, part of this work will be to make sure you have time for things that refuel you — passion projects, downtime and the people you love. So in the end, investing this time in learning how to better prioritize and plan your life will actually make your weeks feel more spacious, less crunched. 

If you’ve heard scary stories about kids with high GPAs who aced all their AP tests, and still didn’t get into the schools they wanted — rest assured: that does not have to be you. This all comes down to the same issue: more hard work and higher scores doesn’t neatly equate to long term success. If you want to end up at a school you’re excited about, on a path that’s wise for your future career, you need a strategy rooted in self-awareness. You need to find out what’s going to make you authentically stand-out to great-fit schools you’ll be proud to attend, and focus on that. And that’s exactly what our Academic Coaches will help you do. Work with us, and we’ll get you on a path where you can rest assured that your hard work will be worth it. 

That’s completely normal. There are many reasons why students turn down the opportunity of professional support. At the end of the day, kids who don’t want to be in Academic Coaching usually don’t get much out of it, so we wouldn’t want to waste your time. However, we do have some advice for how to influence your kid without nagging them. Check out our blog for more on what you can do to get your kid to warm up to the idea professional coaching. 

Students who start Academic Coaching in the summer get a major advantage. It’s a great opportunity to reflect on the previous year, figure out future goals, and begin adopting new routines and habits so you can start the school year with confidence and ease. Often it can be hard to bounce back from a vacation. We even see kids struggle with coming back from spring break. Going from zero structure to a full schedule is simply a shock to the system, whether you have a diagnosis of neurodiversity or not. So instead of waiting for the stress of next year to hit before you get support, get ahead of it now. Take this time to learn new skills for working smarter, not harder. Get to know yourself better. Figure out how to work with your strengths and challenges. It’s never too soon to start.