Get Ahead, Not Behind with Summer Coaching
Summer is perfect opportunity for students to build habits and learn Executive Function skills that will prepare them for the upcoming school year.
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Why Is Summer the Ideal Time for Executive Function Coaching?
Summer is an excellent time for Executive Function coaching. Unlike the school year when sessions typically revolve around helping students with their academic demands, summer provides a more low-stress environment for students to work on their EF skills, including:
- Organization
- Prioritization
- Time management
- Maintaining focus
- Task initiation
- Efficient studying
Whether it’s preparing for the new school year, making a plan to complete summer reading or learning packets, or working on a passion project, summer coaching has proven to have countless unique benefits for the thousands of students we've worked with.
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How Does Summer Coaching Keep Kids Engaged?
Preparing for new school year
Work with college clients on packing and unpacking, scheduling, finding, and maintaining summer work.
Keep it interesting
Engage in activities like reading stories, playing games, and discussing topics relevant to clients' interests.
Reflect on school year
Reflect on the previous school year, highlighting significant moments to prepare for a successful transition into a new school year.
Keep the student engaged
Engage clients in meaningful projects, either by co-creating or supporting existing projects that utilize their skills and interests.
Shorter sessions
Use shorter sessions with check-ins later in the week or multiple sessions per week.
Non-academic focus
Create "projects" based on clients' interests, such as baking, cooking, crafts, book studies, or goal-setting.
Preparing for new school year
Work with college clients on packing and unpacking, scheduling, finding, and maintaining summer work.
Keep it interesting
Engage in activities like reading stories, playing games, and discussing topics relevant to clients' interests.
Reflect on school year
Reflect on the previous school year, highlighting significant moments to prepare for a successful transition into a new school year.
Keep the student engaged
Engage clients in meaningful projects, either by co-creating or supporting existing projects that utilize their skills and interests.
Shorter sessions
Use shorter sessions with check-ins later in the week or multiple sessions per week.
Non-academic focus
Create "projects" based on clients' interests, such as baking, cooking, crafts, book studies, or goal-setting.
Preparing for new school year
Work with college clients on packing and unpacking, scheduling, finding, and maintaining summer work.
Keep it interesting
Engage in activities like reading stories, playing games, and discussing topics relevant to clients' interests.
Reflect on school year
Reflect on the previous school year, highlighting significant moments to prepare for a successful transition into a new school year.
Keep the student engaged
Engage clients in meaningful projects, either by co-creating or supporting existing projects that utilize their skills and interests.
What Are the Benefits of Summer Coaching?
Don't start the new school year with old problems. Summer is the perfect time for students to tackle important areas of growth before the new school year. Here are some key priorities we've seen our clients focus on:
Executive Function & ADHD Support
- Build key skills and habits - with or without an ADHD diagnosis - to boost academic performance.
Building Academic Skills
- Strengthen reading comprehension, essay writing, and prepare for homework, projects, and tests.
Organization & Preparedness
- Establish systems for school success - think binders, backpacks, schedules, and class selection.
Summer Planning
- Set goals, create a parent/child contract, and start college essays or internship research.
Summer Coaching: What Can You Expect?
Custom coach matching
- We’ll match your child with an expert coach based on age, needs, background, and goals.
- Our coaches hold at least master’s degrees or equivalent, have proven success records, must pass the BBS exam following our proprietary training program, and engage in continued professional development.
- We employ 200+ coaches across the United States, because we know each individual has unique needs. We promise you’ll be delighted with your coach or we’ll rematch you for free.
Personalized goal setting
- Your coach will work with you and/or your child to understand your needs and create a holistic and customized set of goals and a clear plan to get there.
- Our coaches are trained to work with individuals with ADHD, and those without, from elementary school through adulthood.
- Your coach will use evidence-based, best practices to design goals that are effective for your circumstances and personal mindset.
1:1 coaching sessions
- In your virtual one-on-one coaching sessions you’ll work with your coach to learn how to organize, plan, prioritize, manage time, maintain focus, self-assess, work productively, and improve your relationships.
- Our coaches are equipped with more than 375 of the most effective tools, apps, and strategies in the industry and will work with you to hand-select, learn, and practice the strategies that work best for you.
- Our approach to coaching is evidence-backed, has been tested over 19 years, and more than 250,000 hours of effective coaching.
Which Executive Function skill is your student's biggest blindspot?
Take our short assessment and receive free resources to help support your student's #1 Executive Function challenge area.
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Can Summer Coaching Programs Benefit Students of All Ages?
Summer coaching programs enable students at all grade levels to become better learners that are more prepared for the next school year.
Elementary school students
Elementary school is a critical time for the development of foundational Executive Function skills. Parents often begin to see signs of Executive Function challenges in their child in elementary school, when the child faces new expectations for self-management.
Middle & high school students
In middle school, students must learn to adapt to the expectations of several different teachers who may schedule tests and due dates for projects on the same day. By 12th grade, Executive Function skills are needed for a smooth transition to college, where heightened school demands compete with new freedoms and extracurriculars.
College students
College is an opportunity for personal and professional growth. However, those with poor Executive Function skills may find it challenging to manage it all alone. Beyond BookSmart provides individuals with the necessary tools and techniques to build their self-confidence, independence, beliefs around being successful in college.
How Can Summer Coaching Prevent the Summer Slide?
Summer break offers students a chance to unwind and recharge, but it can also lead to academic regression, especially for neurodivergent children diagnosed with ADHD. The dreaded “summer slide” affects nearly all students, but those with ADHD often experience it more intensely.
Our Executive Function Summer Coaching Program is designed to combat the summer slide and set students up for success. We equip students of all ages with the tools, resources, and support they need to develop lifelong learning skills that will prepare them for the upcoming school year. Don’t let the summer slide derail your child’s progress. Enroll in summer coaching today!
What Do Parents Say About Beyond BookSmart's Coaching Services?
“Executive Function Coaching has been a lifesaver for our teen son. Once he began getting Executive Function coaching from Beyond BookSmart, we saw a tremendous gain in his ability to manage the work expected for his grade level. Coaching is not just for ‘failing students.’ It is for students who want to learn to be the best they can be with a set of tools that will carry them through life in both the work world and the social world."
Parent of 9th Grade Student
"What do you do when you have a kid who is clearly bright, but they are coming home from school with horrible grades, largely due to not studying effectively, failing to turn in classwork and homework and not tackling major projects until they're almost due? Subject tutors aren't really all that helpful, since your bright kid struggles with grades in all classes. For our family, Beyond BookSmart has been the key to turning things around."
Debbie R.
"They [Beyond BookSmart] match your child with an Executive Function coach, who helps the student develop important skills that I just don’t think our schools have done a great job teaching. Those skills include test preparation, time management, organizational skills and more--basically, everything our kids need outside of the substantive subject matter taught at school in order to thrive academically."
Mother of Middle School Student
"We have used Beyond BookSmart for two children, both with different types of ADHD. Was it worth the money? Absolutely. Today both of our children are out in the workforce and thriving without support. Both regularly mention skills they learned from their coach that continue to benefit them today. As parents, we couldn't have asked for better partners than Michael Delman and the Beyond BookSmart team."
Mother of Two Coaching Clients with ADHD
“Executive Function Coaching has been a lifesaver for our teen son. Once he began getting Executive Function coaching from Beyond BookSmart, we saw a tremendous gain in his ability to manage the work expected for his grade level. Coaching is not just for ‘failing students.’ It is for students who want to learn to be the best they can be with a set of tools that will carry them through life in both the work world and the social world."
Parent of 9th Grade Student
"What do you do when you have a kid who is clearly bright, but they are coming home from school with horrible grades, largely due to not studying effectively, failing to turn in classwork and homework and not tackling major projects until they're almost due? Subject tutors aren't really all that helpful, since your bright kid struggles with grades in all classes. For our family, Beyond BookSmart has been the key to turning things around."
Debbie R.
"They [Beyond BookSmart] match your child with an Executive Function coach, who helps the student develop important skills that I just don’t think our schools have done a great job teaching. Those skills include test preparation, time management, organizational skills and more--basically, everything our kids need outside of the substantive subject matter taught at school in order to thrive academically."
Mother of Middle School Student
"We have used Beyond BookSmart for two children, both with different types of ADHD. Was it worth the money? Absolutely. Today both of our children are out in the workforce and thriving without support. Both regularly mention skills they learned from their coach that continue to benefit them today. As parents, we couldn't have asked for better partners than Michael Delman and the Beyond BookSmart team."
Mother of Two Coaching Clients with ADHD
“Executive Function Coaching has been a lifesaver for our teen son. Once he began getting Executive Function coaching from Beyond BookSmart, we saw a tremendous gain in his ability to manage the work expected for his grade level. Coaching is not just for ‘failing students.’ It is for students who want to learn to be the best they can be with a set of tools that will carry them through life in both the work world and the social world."
Parent of 9th Grade Student
"What do you do when you have a kid who is clearly bright, but they are coming home from school with horrible grades, largely due to not studying effectively, failing to turn in classwork and homework and not tackling major projects until they're almost due? Subject tutors aren't really all that helpful, since your bright kid struggles with grades in all classes. For our family, Beyond BookSmart has been the key to turning things around."
Debbie R.
"They [Beyond BookSmart] match your child with an Executive Function coach, who helps the student develop important skills that I just don’t think our schools have done a great job teaching. Those skills include test preparation, time management, organizational skills and more--basically, everything our kids need outside of the substantive subject matter taught at school in order to thrive academically."
Mother of Middle School Student