Professional development for schools
Life Solved Coaching provides expert training in Executive Function skills for educators across the country to support success and learning for all students.
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Professional Development
Our approach is to partner with all stakeholders of the school community- parents, students, and educators, in order to yield positive habits and, ultimately, academic and cognitive growth. Workshops are customized to infuse school-based initiatives while focusing on how to incorporate executive function skills in classrooms to support all learners.
Our workshops provide:
Information about cognitive development and academic challenges their students face
Research-backed insight into best practices to remove barriers, foster inclusion and provide opportunities for student engagement
Proven strategies and techniques to build students’ resiliency and empower learners to reach their maximum potential through our universally designed framework
Ready-to-use activities and templates for educators to incorporate into their content-based curricula
Our most popular topics include:
Establishing In-Person & Virtual Classroom Routines and Expectations
Managing Transitional Years
Refreshing Your Lesson Plans with EF Skills
Setting Your Physical and Virtual Classroom Up For EF Success
Supporting Neuro-Diverse Students with Executive Function Strategies
Building Resilience, Autonomy and Self-Advocacy to be College & Career Ready
Digital Literacy & Organization: Technology as a Tool
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Presented during staff meetings or regular Professional Development Days on targeted topics that would best benefit your school’s student needs and align with your school’s initiative. Training workshops range in length starting from 90 minutes. This opportunity allows the introduction of specific topics related to Executive Function Skills. Life Solved will provide related resources, strategies and templates as take-aways to be used in classrooms.
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Workshop style presentation to engage educators with Executive Function Skills. Focus is on how to implement and incorporate Executive Function Skills in physical and digital classrooms/school communities as a school initiative and effort. Provides participants with tools and resources that can be used in their individual content-areas, as well as methods that they can model in their teaching pedagogy throughout the school year. Great way to encourage Executive Function from the start in a one-time workshop.
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Include Executive Function Skills into the school’s yearlong initiatives with quarterly check-ins and workshops to ensure continued growth and feedback. This partnership highlights the importance of yearlong growth and data analysis to institute change and foster skills. Partnership could focus on staff development of their own Executive Function Skills and/or the implementation of those skills in classrooms and the school community.
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Tackle a specific learning community within your school by partnering with a group of educators or school professionals. The PLC will establish the goals for the group, learn the strategies towards reaching those goals and implement the action steps. This yearlong effort would be a targeted approach to introducing Executive Function Skills into the school community so that the PLC can share their learning with the rest of the school’s stakeholders.
Incorporating stakeholders
Our holistic approach provides opportunities, strategies, and tools for students and their families to access continued support outside the classroom — both individually and in groups.
Targeting all stakeholders fosters an engaged school community while increasing skill acquisition and student achievement.
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1-1 coaching for students
Students work directly with an EF coach to:
Promote self-advocacy skills through implementation of academic accommodations;
Develop personalized time management and organizational systems to empower students to complete assignments on time and prioritize studying;
Target gaps in planning and working memory to promote retention through specific study skills strategies for each course;
Build transitional life skills that foster independence and accountability both inside and outside the classroom.
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Homework Solved is a structured, focused group coaching space to complete academic work.
Staffed by expert Executive Function coaches, these guided study halls provide:
Framework and strategies to help with task initiation for assignments and test prep;
Custom planning and prioritization tools for students help them break down large assignments and projects.
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Interactive, collaborative spaces provide students with ideas, tools and resources to support skill-building for success inside and outside the classroom.
Topics include:
Freshman Transition Support
Syllabus Secrets: Decoding What Your Professor Wants
Final Exam Prep: Test-Taking Strategies & Managing Test Anxiety
Getting Back on Track: Overcoming Procrastination & Mastering Prioritization
Understanding Your Accommodations
Self-Advocacy In the Classroom
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Individualized support for parents or guardians looking to increase their awareness and understanding of their child’s needs and how to best support the development of their Executive Function skills.
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PTA meetings, Back to School Nights or Parent Nights are excellent touch points to offer interactive workshops for parents and guardians. All families can benefit from a greater understanding of their child’s development and how to best support emerging Executive Function skills at school and beyond.
Testimonials
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"THE STUDENTS WERE THOROUGHLY ENGAGED..."
“It was a joy working with Life Solved to develop a program on values for our students...and they came through 100%. The students were thoroughly engaged in the activities presented and commented on what fun they had identifying their ideals.”
-School Counselor
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"HER LESSONS WERE INVALUABLE."
We want to thank Life Solved for sharing about teens in today’s world; juggling technology, school responsibilities, extracurricular activities all while trying to learn to be independent. Her focus on organizational skills, tools for homework + tests and ways to keep communicating with our kids while supporting them, just to name a few, is invaluable.”
-Parent Teacher Association
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