Academic & executive function coaching
Coaching for grades 8–12
Weekly one-to-one coaching in the skills school assumes students already have.
Who this is for
Students in grades 8 through 12, anywhere on the range.
- The student whose grades don't match what they know
- The student who finishes work and never turns it in
- The student earning As on effort and anxiety, with no system underneath
- The student heading to college who's about to lose every external structure
- The student who shuts down when four things are due at once
It is not only for students who are struggling. Success coaching is standard in college for exactly this reason — capable people work better with structure and accountability. Starting in high school means arriving already knowing how.
What we work on
Eleven skills that decide whether a week holds together
These are the executive function skills identified by Dawson and Guare, taught as school behaviours rather than theory.
What coaching is, and isn't
- Subject tutoring. No algebra instruction, no essay editing. If that's the need, you want a tutor.
- Doing the work. Not the outlining, not the studying, not the submitting.
- Diagnosing anything. I'm an educator, not a clinician.
- Guaranteed grades. Nobody can honestly promise those.
Inside a session
What actually happens
Every session follows the same arc. The timing shifts week to week depending on what your student walks in with. The coaching block is the one part that never gets cut.
Priority Coaching runs the same arc across 60 minutes, with the coaching and planning blocks extended.
How sessions work with a minor
What I ask of you
Parents
- Let the system be your student's, even when it's slower than doing it yourself
- Read the updates
- Give it the full semester before judging it
- Tell me when something at home isn't working
Students
- Show up
- Be honest about what actually happened this week
- Try the system before deciding it won't work
Programs
Two ways to work together
Pricing is published. You shouldn't have to sit through a phone call to find out what something costs.
1:1 Academic Coaching
Weekly coaching for any student building or rebuilding the way they run school.
$160 / week
Begin with 6 weeks · 45-minute sessions · Virtual
- 45-minute one-to-one session, once a week
- Written growth note for parents every two weeks
- Email and a 15-minute call with teachers or your student's support team when it's needed, at no additional cost
- A system your student builds and owns
Priority Coaching
For a semester that's slipping fast, or a load your student can't currently hold.
$1,750 / month
Month to month · 60-minute sessions · Virtual
- 60-minute sessions, twice a week
- Written growth note for parents every week
- Email and a 15-minute call with teachers or your student's support team when it's needed
- Most students step down to weekly coaching once things stabilize
Start with six weeks
You shouldn't have to commit to a semester before you know whether this works for your student.
Holding your spot. A $100 enrollment fee reserves your student's place on the calendar and is applied to your first week, so week one is $60 and every week after is $160.
Payment. Pay in full, or billed weekly to the payment method on file. All payments are processed securely online.
*A 3% surcharge applies to credit card payments and does not exceed our cost of acceptance. Debit and prepaid cards are not surcharged.
Approved provider for Step Up For Students scholarship funding.
Scheduling and school breaks. Sessions follow the school calendar. I'm off the weeks students are out, including December 22–26 and December 31–January 2, and available on the other days between December 19 and January 4.
A visible booking calendar runs first come, first served, so you can plan your term around your family's schedule.
Missed sessions. Reschedule with 24 hours' notice at no charge. Sessions cancelled with less than 24 hours' notice, or missed without notice, are forfeited — with one courtesy exception per program for documented illness or emergency.
Program fees are non-refundable once paid; prepaid undelivered sessions convert to credits valid for 12 months. Everyone signs a coaching agreement at enrollment, and we review it together before you sign anything.
Working alongside your student's support team
If your student has an IEP or a 504 plan, coaching sits alongside it rather than inside it. What that looks like in practice: I let the teachers and ESE team know what we're working on, so the strategies your student is learning with me line up with the supports they already have at school.
Email and a 15-minute call during the week, when it's needed, are included in your weekly cost. If you'd like me to attend an IEP meeting by phone or video and my schedule allows, that's $100 per meeting.
To be clear about the boundary: I don't provide services under a plan, and I don't act as your advocate with the district. What I provide is coordination — making sure the people supporting your student know what the others are doing.
Coming back each year
Most families who finish a semester come back. Not because the skills didn't hold, but because the demands change.
The system a 9th grader builds won't survive junior year. AP courses, a job, application season, and eventually a schedule with no bells and nobody down the hall — each requires rebuilding what worked before. Students who return aren't starting over. They're adapting something they already own.
Start with the Snapshot.
Eleven questions, under 90 seconds, and you'll see where your student's systems actually stand. No email required, no obligation.
Take the Student Success SnapshotPrefer to talk? Email alycia@reachriseachieve.com