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Executive Function Coaching
K-12 Weekly Coaching
Weekly Executive Function Coaching is a 50-minute coaching meeting for K-12 students who have not yet gained learned independence. The focus of the meetings will be based on age, school rigor, and individual needs. We have coaching specialists at all grade and age levels who will work with students to develop the skills and routines necessary for success.
Many students, often very bright students, understand the course content but struggle with the process of school which seriously affects their work product. Students with under-developed executive functions don’t internalize executive function skills; instead they internalize negative self-worth, anxiety and learned helplessness. These students need to learn how to externalize the study skills that are required for school success until the skills become internalized processes…they just aren’t there yet.
Weekly Coaching Could include:
The use of planning materials which allow for greater classroom success
Learning to time-manage work and understand how to fit everything into a day
Determining organizational systems that actually work
Learning the importance of self-advocacy
Learning study strategies and skills that best match individual learning styles.
College Transition Coaching
Transition coaching is specifically focused on the executive function needs of the graduating high school senior. As students choose the university they will attend, they also need to assess their readiness for the required maturity and academic independence that are expected in college. Universities have many supports that are available to students, but a vast majority of college freshmen don’t understand or use the available resources. Students who are unable to make good academic and life choices need to either find supports at college or embrace the strategies that are necessary for college success before leaving home.
Transition coaching can help students determine how to manage their college experience. It will teach strategies that are essential to college success, discuss college supports, explain the process for accommodations, and offer the graduating high school senior greater understanding and confidence in what is to come.
For students with delayed executive functions, college independence and good decision making can be difficult. Transition coaching offers insight into what can be expected at college and strategies that will make the transition easier.
Transition Coaching will include weekly meetings that teach:
The differences between high school and college
The use of planning materials which allow for their greatest success
Learning to time-manage work and understand how to balance school and social activities
Determining organizational systems and work locations that offer the greatest focus
Learning the importance of self-advocacy, office hours, and TA sessions
Learning study strategies and skills that best match individual learning styles
Recognizing the importance of sleep and nutrition to memory and learning
College Admission Essay Writing
The college application process should belong to the student. Families and companies that complete this process for the student are robbing the applicant of their first chance to define and guide their future. Having said that, American education has created a frenzy around college competition and the perfect resume being included in the perfect application is what our children believe that they must produce to be competitive.
Given the stress that is currently a part of the college admission process, many students ask for support but that help should be assisting them in finding their voice, not creating it for them. As we consider learned independence being an integral part of college success, the application process is the perfect starting point to move from several people supporting the perfect resume to the student being coached to create their perfect resume.
The Essig Education Group’s definition of the perfect resume is one that clearly reflects the intellectual curiosity, social interests, and goals of the student. With thousands of accredited colleges, applicants should not be looking for “the college name,” but the best fit.
Our College Essay coaches will assist students in finding their voice and crafting essays that speak to who they genuinely are. We won’t write the essay for the student, but we will work with that student to guarantee that they have told the most compelling story about themself.
Parent Coaching
Executive function skills are important for success inside and outside of school and apply to all children. Parents who want to be the best support to their children must understand what executive functions are and have a stronger awareness of how its sub-processes, including inhibition, initiation, cognitive shift, emotional control, working memory, planning and organizing, and self-monitoring are intertwined and affect their child’s learning and self-esteem.
Coaching can teach you how to develop comfortable communication within your house, incorporate study skills that will help reduce anxiety, organize your child’s workspace and supplies, balance home and work schedules, set limits and boundaries without fights or tears, better understand failure and resilience, and more.
Coaching will be individualized to each family’s needs and will be scheduled with our parenting specialist. If you want to reduce the fights, tears, and stress, parent coaching can help you better understand how to approach your child’s needs so you can help them rewrite smart.
College Writing Support
Most undergraduate students will craft over 100,000 words of formal writing throughout the course of their college career. The expectation at most universities is that admitted students “know how to write” essays or research articles, but this isn’t always the case.
For students who struggle with writing, the caliber of college writing combined with a push toward independent planning can make the task of essay writing entirely overwhelming. And unfortunately many universities do not provide regular, one-on-one support services, leaving the students to attempt to problem solve essentially on their own.
Students need help to learn how to successfully plan and execute essay or research-based writing. Our college writing support can provide students with short term, single-project support or semester-long coaching to support all writing projects. In line with our goal of learned independence, students will not only get project-tailored support but also learn how to determine the expectations of any essay or writing project, schedule the work into manageable chunks, and learn how to best work with their learning preferences.
OVERVIEW OF SUPPORT
Provide writing and planning support with essays
Teach both the planning and writing process – tailored to students depending on their strengths and weaknesses → techniques that the students can apply to future projects as we strive for learned independence
Provide support from initial ideation through final edits, depending on what the student needs
For a students who are struggling with a specific assignment OR for students who will have regular writing assignments throughout the semester (either project-based help or regular sessions)
WHO WE SUPPORT
Students with prerequisite courses that aren’t within their strengths
Students who struggle to write or find that they complete essay assignments last minute
Students who have gaps in their writing abilities – IE are strong ideators but struggle with editing or students who can’t always connect the dots with initial statements and sources
Students with courses or assignments where the professors are less available for regular office hours
Students who wants to be a stronger writers
Students who are anxious writers
WHO WE ARE
Our Writing Specialists are professional writers and story tellers who work in television. They will assist students in finding their voice and confidence. They won’t write the essay for the student, but they will work with that student to guarantee that the student has written an essay that they are proud of.
College Weekly Coaching
Like K-12 Weekly Coaching, College Weekly is a 50-minute coaching session for the college student who has not yet gained learned independence. The focus of the meetings will be planning, organizing, advocacy, and following through on work in a timely and deliberate way.
Many students leave for college having never been truly independent. They may have had tutors, coaches, parent support, forgiving teachers, and more. Colleges expect that students will take the primary, adult role in their school success but many students are not prepared to do so, particularly those who have been supported through their K-12 education.
Weekly coaching could include:
Understanding the syllabus and long term planning
Office hours and advocacy
College resources and accommodations
Time management, planning, and follow through
Making wise choices
Sleep hygiene
College Weekly Coaching will help the student, who has never taken the primary role in their school success develop the organization, planning, time management, self-advocacy, and self-monitoring skills necessary for college success.
College Intensive Coaching
Intensive Executive Function Coaching is a 15-week agreement for weekly coaching meetings with daily support. This coaching will include a weekly, 60-minute planning/organizing and coaching meeting in addition to daily emails, texts, and short calls (as needed).
Students who choose Intensive Executive Function Coaching must have current testing that demonstrates disability and the need for specific support. They must have disclosed to their college and have submitted their testing for review and accommodations and agree that this is a collaborative effort which could include their parents, professors and advisor.
Intensive Coaching will also include:
a three-way meeting with parents and student, before the start of the semester, to develop a contract of expected engagement from all parties
a longer planning meeting between the student and the coach to set the semester work schedule once syllabi are available
a three-way call with parents after midterms, notification to parents if students miss meetings or need to consider class change
a three-way, end of semester meeting to discuss areas of growth and plan for the next semester
Adult Weekly Coaching
Executive Dysfunction can impact more than school, it can also cause issues with work and life. Adult weekly coaching is a 50-minute coaching session for people who have completed school but are still challenged with being able to manage work and/or life. Our coaches will help clients target challenges and then develop routines and solutions to increase consistency and/or productivity.
If you need support with learning how to meet your potential and produce your best work, call us to discuss executive function coaching.
Our work with adults is completely individualized to their executive function needs which could include:
Work productivity and meeting deadlines
Social challenges
Planning and time management at home and work
Handling stress and being able to ask for help
Parenting skill
Gap Year Consulting
Taking a gap year between high school and college to promote college readiness is an idea that has gained traction over the past several years. But unlike holding a preschooler back from kindergarten so that they have another year to mature, taking a gap year after high school graduation doesn’t mean that a student will organically develop the skills necessary to be successful in college.
At EEG we take an individualized approach to gap year consulting. We begin by identifying the student’s strengths and challenges as they relate to college readiness. We then work together with the student and their parents to recommend appropriate pathways and programs. EEG considers the ideal path to be one that the student actively and willingly takes ownership of, whether this is a traditional gap year program, a post-secondary transition program, or a custom-crafted combination of opportunities to develop the skills they need to set them up for a successful college experience.
gap year consulting includes:
A review of records
A Zoom meeting with parents
A Zoom meeting with the student
A Zoom family meeting
A written plan of options