Executive Function Coaching For Empowered Learning

Chyna Bates has taught executive function skills since 2015. Our focus on executive functioning is evident in all of our interactions with students and is a cornerstone of our commitment to student success. In collaboration with our partners at Effective Students in Atlanta, GA, we utilize a dynamic and comprehensive process to teach students how to learn. Our team, including experts like Chyna Bates and Effective Students' Founder, Rachael Barron, specializes in working with students to foster essential executive function skills, tailored to the unique needs of each student. Our collaborative effort merges diverse expertise along with proven methods to bolster academic skills, organization, time management, resilience, and other essential self-management skills, not just for school, but for life!

Our Partnership with Effective Students

The Effective Student™ Method simplifies academic management through a step by step curriculum that measures success so students can track their results and experience improvement right away. Success encourages students to continue with the program as they become more capable and independent. The Effective Student™ Method is appropriate for grades 4-12 as well as those in college. Our proprietary method helps all students succeed—whether they are struggling academically or looking to accelerate their performance, our academic coaching gives them the tools they need to achieve their executive functioning goals. 

Created for students, the Effective Student Online Course helps students:

  • Struggling to manage materials or assignments

  • Struggling to apply what they’re learning

  • Unaware of what is interfering with their success

  • Resistant to help from parents

  • Who have been diagnosed with ADHD (read more)

FAQs

  • Executive Function or 'self-management skills', involve working memory, cognitive flexibility and inhibitory control or self-control. Working effectively, these function as a powerful decision-making engine that we use to set goals, make plans, and complete tasks.

  • Executive Function Coaching is an educational approach that focuses on strengthening key mental skills necessary for organizing, planning, strategizing, remembering details, and managing time and space. Our expert Executive Function Coaches develop a comprehensive approach, tailored to each student's needs, motivations, and goals in order to unlock self-management skills.

  • Parents and guardians play a crucial role in recognizing areas where a student is having trouble. For example, a student struggling with time management may repeatedly underestimate the time needed for homework, they may fall behind on assignments, or find themselves cramming for tests at the last minute.

    By identifying and addressing skills like: organization, time management, prioritization, self-monitoring, task initiation, self monitoring, and flexibility, Executive Function Coaching helps students improve their academic performance, manage stress, and build a skills foundation for lifelong success.