Executive Function Skills Coaching
Help your student gain the tools and confidence to achieve
their full academic potential.
What are executive function skills?
Executive function skills are mental processes that provide the necessary focus and action to get things done. Students who lack executive function skills often appear to be unmotivated, lazy, disengaged, scattered and indifferent, however this is most often not true.
Executive function skills thrive will prioritize:
Planning
Time Management
Organization of Space and Time
Emotional Regulation
Working Memory
Sustained and Diverted Attention
Prioritizing
Task Initiation
Goal Directed Persistence
Inhibition
Transition
Self-Awareness
ABOUT
Colleen Shaw, M.ed. &
Executive Function Skills Expert
Colleen Shaw- Sole proprietor of thrive and trained executive function skills coach is a former 6th grade special education inclusion teacher and has a Masters in Education. Colleen primarily specializes in coaching secondary students and college students in executive functioning using Carol Dwecks growth mindset approach. Colleen provides one-to-one coaching at your home (or a mutually agreed upon location) and online.
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Executive function skills can be acquired with coaching by using targeted interventions, specific to the needs of the student. Building any new habit or skill will take time and commitment from both the coach and student. Therefore, the coaching process typically takes at least a full school year or longer . Colleen will always provide transparency with the goals worked on, successes achieved and status of identified priorities.
SERVICES
One-to-one coaching
in person or online
TESTIMONIALS
Parents Recommend
Ellie H.
“After working with Colleen my son, who is twice exceptional, went from a disengaged "D"/"C" student to an honor roll student and found the joy in learning again.”
Sandy L.
“My son Cole would not have made it through his first year of college without his essential weekly coaching sessions with Colleen at thrive .”
Maria D.
" We will always be grateful for the work Colleen did with Soledad, that helped her to pass her math final and avoid summer school!"