Our Private Executive Functioning & Study Skills Coaching Programs
While we build a customized curriculum for each student, whether in middle school, high school, or college, The Ladder Method offers 3 general program descriptions that deliver results for students based on their profiles and goals - from comprehensive support across all aspects of executive functioning to very targeted application of specific study skills and strategies. We also offer executive functioning coaching for adults. Which program is right for you?
TLM’s Targeted Learning
Academic Tutoring + Study Skills Struggling with a specific topic/topics and need to prioritize short-term improvement before moving to longer-term learning strategies?
A specialized, subject-specific program for students who excel overall but face challenges in one particular subject. This program hones subject-specific study techniques, problem-solving strategies, and light executive functioning skills to improve academic comprehension, retention, and confidence.
Duration: 1 semester minimum
(depending on the number of subjects and starting and target grades in the specified content area)
Minimum Weekly Commitment: 2 hours
Typical Cadence: 2 60-minute sessions per week, per subject
TLM’s Academic Accelerator
Study Skills and Select Executive Functioning modules Looking to improve academic performance in select areas while also enhancing overall performance?
A structured program for students who need more tailored support in study skills and essential or key executive functioning like time management or planning across a few key subjects. This program strengthens note-taking, exam preparation, time management, and organization while introducing critical executive functioning strategies to enhance academic and personal performance.
Duration: 2-3 semesters
Minimum Weekly Commitment: 2 hours
Typical Cadence: 60-90-minute weekend session, 60-90-minute midweek session
TLM’s Executive Functioning Mastery
Comprehensive Executive Functioning Coaching ProgramStruggling academically or with life skills across the board? Or want to optimize your EF skills for better life performance?
A comprehensive, immersive executive functioning program designed for students struggling both academically and in daily life. This program develops core executive functioning, positive mindset skills, accountability skills, and study skills, equipping students with the tools to manage time, stay organized, self-regulate, and become independent learners.
Our course in executive functioning covers: organization, time management, planning, prioritization, stamina, focus, routine and habit formation, meta-cognition, study skills and life management skills such as financial literacy and social emotional learning skills.
Duration: 3-4 semesters
Minimum Weekly Commitment: 2 hours
Typical Cadence: 60-minute weekend session, 60-minute midweek session
Not sure which program is right for you?
Our Most Frequently Asked Tutoring Questions
What is Tutoring vs. Coaching vs Homework Help?
We make distinctions in our office between homework help, tutoring and academic coaching.
Tutoring
This service is best used for students who are struggling with the ability to understand a specific content area.
What this looks like in practice: Your child has been a great student but is now struggling with math or Chemistry or Upper-level English assignments.
There is a discrete issue that requires remediation.
They need a content expert who is an expert at a specific subject matter.
Study Skills Coaching
This service is best applied for our students that are traditional learners but are struggling to get to the A in a class or set of classes. They may be at a C or a B.
We also suggest coaching for transition times such as the transition into Middle School or High School.
We work on the 11 tenets//elements of Candice’s Ladder Method to help boost this child to the top of their class.
What this looks like in practice: An inability to consistently get an A in a class or set of classes.
Executive Functioning Coaching
This service is best applied for our students that are neuro-diverse and have been diagnosed with a learning difference or are suspected to have a learning difference.
This service is best used to help tackle challenges in areas such as organization, routine building, habit building, time management, task management/working backward from a deadline, accountability, self-monitoring, focus/attention/stamina, task initation and motivation, study skills as they apply to executive functioning, working memory.
What this looks like in practice: An inability to consistently get an A in a class or set of classes.
Homework Help & Accountability
These students are great test takers but lack follow through in getting homework turned in.
Either there is a larger Executive Functioning issue or a more traditional inability to understanding the micro-steps and timing of a bigger project and how to manage those steps in an order. See also planning.
What this looks like in practice: An inability to task manage might look a weakness to turn in homework on time, to understand what the micro-steps of a project are, how to prioritize them, how to allocate time for them and what steps go in what order.