Learn How to Learn
EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING COACHING | LEARNING DIFFERENCES | ACADEMIC COACHING | REMEDIATION
Learn How to Learn is a specific department at our company dedicated to children with learning and social-emotional differences.
This is our introductory programming & coaching for children with learning differences and executive functioning struggles. We teach your child Candice’s meta-learning skills and executive functioning strategies at a gentler pace so that the coaches can fine-tune and remediate gaps in executive functioning skills, academic skills, and social-emotional skills such as planning, resilience, emotional self-regulation, attention, and mindfulness.
Our coaches target four core areas: environment, routine building, remediation of academic skills like reading and math, and social-emotional skills like resilience and positive thinking.
In our Learn How to Learn program, our Academic managers and coaches teach your child Candice’s social-emotional programming to instill better resilience, positive thinking, and organization tools to better navigate their challenges with the right outlook. With this toolkit, no matter your child’s starting point, age, or learning profile, we have found that all students can learn how to learn!
Learn How to Learn
Service Options
Our Learn how to Learn Coaching Program
Our Process & Approach
Intake & Assessment
It all begins with a phone consultation with one of our client services enrollment executives. Once we have a feel for the needs of the family, we implement an assessment coach who meets with the student and family to assess further needs.
Implementation
Once the coach or instructor is selected, a strategy is created by the assessment staff and our Client Success department. It is then implemented. Our recommendations for frequency or length of meeting with depend on our assessment.
Ongoing Evaluation
The coach and Client Success team meet regularly to assess progress and to assess key moments to implement further skill building for the client.
FAQs
What is Executive Functioning?
8 -12 key skills that people use to plan and execute tasks as diverse as setting the table to playing sports to completing homework and turning it in.
The skills we focus on are below:
Organization
The ability to create methods and systems to stay tidy and have things put away where they can be found easily.
What this looks like in practice: you regularly find your child’s homework or papers were thrown into a backpack without organization. This student or adult may regularly misplace keys or assignments.
Time Management
An ability to understand accurately how long something will take to properly plan and execute.
What this looks like in practice: An ability to understand why something was not completed on time, procrastination, or a failure to complete most of the steps before having to turn something in.
Working Memory
The ability to keep pieces of information in one’s head for the duration of when it is needed.
What this looks like in practice: An ability to remember directions even after having had them explained numerous times. An inability to memorize without regular repetition. It may look like absentmindedness.
Self-Monitoring
The ability of a person to understand how they are doing at a task.
What this looks like in practice: An inability to understand why they didn’t do well on an assignment or a project.
Planning
The ability to understand how to plan out the execution of a set of tasks and prioritize between tasks.
What this looks like in practice: An inability to set out a plan to execute a project, presentation or set of homework.
Focus/ Attention
An ability to maintain sustained focus on a person or project and shift to the next project when needed.
What this looks like in practice: An inability to maintain focus for the duration of something, interrupting an adult with an unrelated topic, interrupting in class with an unrelated topic.
Task Initiation
The ability to initiate a task that is assigned without coaxing or another adult present.
What this looks like in practice: An inability to get started or to understand and get started on the next step in an order of tasks.
Emotional Regulation
The ability of a person to react appropriately to positive or negative feedback or instructions.
What this looks like in practice: An inability to restrain an emotional feeling. Children or Adults that lack emotional regulation overreact to an issue.
Task Management
Ability to understanding the micro-steps and timing of a bigger project and how to manage those steps in order. See also planning.
What this looks like in practice: An inability to task manage might look like a weakness 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.
Meta-Cognition
The ability to understand how one learns best to apply it to acquire more information.
What this looks like in practice: An inability or struggle to study for tests or understand what processes work best for the learner.
Goal-Directed Perseverance
The ability to stick to the task at hand and not give up when faced with a challenge.
What this looks like in practice: An inability to stick to the task at hand and switch when faced with challenges. Several projects go incomplete.
Flexibility
The ability to adapt when something changes or shifts either in terms of due date or expectation.
What this looks like in practice: An inability to cope with the shift and either an outburst or impulsivity ensues.