Executive Functioning

April 16, 2025 by

Executive Function Coaching and Tutoring

Our online enrichment programs are focused on optimizing overall performance and growth to prepare students for college and beyond, using core executive functioning strategies. Executive functioning skills are the bedrock of any success in academics for students of all achievement levels.

We help students of all ages build life skills that will help them excel and prepare for and succeed in college.
Our programs consist of customizable activities and goals that meet and support students where they are.
We work with students of all learning profiles (including students with ASD, ADHD, and more).
Our program helps students improve grades and test scores, stay organized, and remain engaged and focused on tasks.

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Our Programs Are Fully Online

In order to better serve our students, our executive functioning skills programs are available online. Our online program model offers a number of unique benefits.

Hiring Nationwide Experts

With no geographic restrictions, our online model allows us to recruit and hire the best teaching and admissions experts from around the country.

Meeting Students Where They Are

We’ve found that engaging with students directly in their homework environment makes it easy to then translate the skills, strategies, and best practices covered in our meetings directly.

Flexible Scheduling

Our teachers and advisors are available at the click of a button. This flexibility has dramatically reduced tardiness and rescheduling, allowing students to stay on track and in constant communication with our team.

Collaborative Online Tools

Using our collection of carefully cultivated online tools and resources, we’ve found online efforts to be increasingly productive, organized, and collaborative.

Real-Time Communication

Online, we are better able to efficiently track student growth, provide regular progress check-ins with parents, and ensure timely organization and task management.

Students We Serve

We help a wide variety of students through our Executive Functioning programs, including but not limited to:

Students who are underperforming due to executive functioning or study skills issues.

Students with learning differences, ranging from language processing, ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder), anxiety, depression, dyslexia, and ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder).

Students seeking early college advising, including 10th grade into 11th grade students.

Issues with Executive Functioning

Our experienced team of life-long educators has the skills to help students with learning differences thrive from middle school through high school, and into college. Issues with executive functioning can affect students in different ways. The signs can resemble ADHD, as students with ADHD often experience a few symptoms related to executive functioning. These may include:

Having trouble starting or completing tasks
Forgetting what was just read, or class discussions
Panicking when rules change
Having trouble organizing thoughts
Having trouble prioritizing tasks
Difficulty keeping track of belongings
Having trouble managing time
Trouble following directions

Achieving Student Success Through Executive Functioning Coaching and Tutoring

As the core of our programs, we seek to optimize this essential component to student success and promote a student’s capacity to self-evaluate, learn, and implement key executive functioning skills. These include time management, planning and organization skills, proactive communication, task prioritization, problem-solving, reasoning, and analysis. We take a step-by-step approach to completing tasks, and work with students to organize their time, plan tasks more effectively, and encourage them to ask questions when they need clarification.

Through our foundation of executive functioning skills, we support students as they develop healthy study habits that champion hard work, focus, and discipline. Our program teaches essential note-taking skills and strategies, appropriate goal-setting, mindful daily scheduling and organization skills, effective routine development, self-monitoring, self-control, adaptable thinking, and optimal study tactics.

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About the Founder

With 20 years of experience working in admissions, development, teaching, and researching, Novella Prep founder and educator Dr. Tony Di Giacomo brings a depth of relevant knowledge to students, families, and education professionals.

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