Where to Start
If you’re concerned about your student engaging:
If you want to experience organization and planning for yourself:
If you’d like to enroll your student in a Executive Function Workshop:
Virtual & In-Person Sessions
You’re invited to join us for a series of FREE events designed to support parents in navigating the unique challenges that come with executive function skill construction. Gain tools, insights, and encouragement from trusted professionals in the field.
Parent Lunch & Learn: Unlock Your Student’s Potential—Navigating Diagnoses, Independence & Growth
Thursday, November 19, 2026 | 12:00–12:45pm ET | Virtual Event (Google Meet)
Can’t attend live? Register to receive the recording and resources.
Supporting a student through academic stress, learning differences, ADHD, Autism, dyslexia, or big emotions can leave parents wondering: How much help is too much? How do I hold expectations while still being compassionate? What do I do when my child is overwhelmed and cannot talk through it?
Join Rachael Barron and Adrienne Achille, MA, LPC, RPT, Licensed Professional Counselor and Registered Play Therapist of Expressive Healing, for a practical, parent-friendly discussion on helping students build confidence, self-awareness, emotional regulation, and greater independence.
This conversation will explore the value of productive struggle: giving students room to practice hard things while staying close enough to provide calm, appropriate support. Parents will also learn why emotion can make language and reasoning less accessible in the moment—and how visual, nonverbal check-ins can create a better path back to connection.
In this session, you’ll learn how to:
- Talk about a diagnosis or learning difference in ways that build self-understanding, self-advocacy, and confidence.
- Practice parent restraint without withdrawing support or lowering expectations.
- Use structured breaks to reduce homework-related anxiety, agitation, and power struggles.
- Try simple emotional check-ins, rating scales, and color-based tools when your child is too dysregulated to talk.
- Build consistency at home while allowing growth to happen gradually—not instantly.
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Parent Lunch & Learn Replay
Parent Lunch & Learn: The Value of Routines & Executive Function Coaching for Your Student
Originally presented Thursday, August 27, 2026
Watch this Parent Lunch & Learn recording to explore why routines are especially helpful for students with ADHD and executive function challenges. Learn how to reinforce the skills your student is practicing in coaching, build small habits that last, and support follow-through without constant reminders or power struggles.
In this session, you’ll learn how to:
- Use predictable routines to support planning, organization, and time management.
- Connect executive function coaching strategies to everyday life at home and during homework time.
- Use simple, non-nagging language when routines get off track.
- Create a routine your student can realistically follow during the school week.
Parent Lunch & Learn: ADHD, Addiction, Screens & Self-Control
Originally presented Thursday, September 17, 2026
Watch this Parent Lunch & Learn recording to better understand the connection between ADHD, screen use, reward-seeking behaviors, and addictive patterns. Host Rachael Barron and guest Chris Love explore a whole-health approach to supporting students—one that emphasizes curiosity, connection, and sustainable change rather than shame or constant conflict.
In this session, you’ll learn how to:
- Understand how ADHD, dopamine, and reward-seeking can affect screen use and other habits.
- Recognize when anxiety, shame, or a need for connection may be underneath a student’s behavior.
- Set realistic boundaries that support accountability without escalating power struggles.
- Use simple conversation starters to keep your student engaged rather than defensive.
- Help students build healthier routines around screens, schoolwork, focus, and self-management.
Why Parents Love Effective Students
Our Parents
Our parents are juggling the pressures of modern parenting—careers, household responsibilities, caregiving, and supporting a competitive learner, neurodivergent or struggling child—all of which can severely tax their executive functioning.
Many parents of students in coaching quietly wrestle with the same struggles their kids do and are looking for help to:
- Create household systems that actually work
- Manage the mental load and reducing burnout
- Learn communication strategies that support autonomy
- Strengthen self-awareness, patience, and resilience
- Build executive skills to model for their child and for their own peace of mind
Becoming a more confident, collaborative partner in their child’s growth journey.
Every parent wants their child to succeed, but many don’t know how to help when they struggle-this becomes frustrating. Our parents have learned to preserve sanity and improve relationships. The Effective Student™ Method simplifies what can be done for all family members to be successful; engaging them in their own learning, working smarter, not harder.
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Maureen has been a great support with my transitions with elder parents, our older child entering college, and our younger child finding his independence. Sometimes the duties in a family can take over. Maureen helped me center my time for my own care, my professional goals, and my joy while allowing for periods of time when the family needs concentrated focus.
-MK
Meet Coaches Who Help Parents Build Executive Function Skills
Catherine Sherrard Ed.D.
Louisville Lead & Executive Function Coach
Effective StudentsWhere We Can Help You and Your Student:
- Give you skills to help your child experience success in school and for their future through a tried and tested Executive Function curriculum.
- Remove the stress of daily management from each other’s lives and focus on bigger goals.
- Have a method to exchange information, delegate and steps to help your child follow through.
- Develop academic independence and ultimately, an organized young adult.
- Provide your child meaningful lifelong lessons, without you being the teacher, and share in the benefits.
- Enjoy peace of mind knowing your child is on the path to self-sufficient study habits.
Is my student ready for executive function coaching?
Complete our Student Readiness Survey to find out.
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