Executive Function at Home:
The foundation of academic independence
Tuesday, November 3, 1:00 to 2:00 pm ET, online
Free for Oak Meadow families
The lesson was supposed to take thirty minutes. Three hours later, you're both still at the table, and neither of you can say where the time went. Some days the work never gets started at all because the student can’t find the first step.
Executive functioning is the set of skills behind organization, time management, getting started, remembering instructions, and staying steady when the work gets hard. These skills show up early and ask more of a student as the work grows.
By middle and high school, two things are happening in your home at once. If you’re homeschooling independently, you're keeping track of coursework, records, test dates, and a plan that has to hold together over the years ahead. If you’re enrolled in our distance learning school, you’re setting up the weekly plan and making sure they stick with it.
Starting in the fifth grade, Oak Meadow provides more and more opportunities for the student to drive their own learning, but it’s a gradual process, and you may be wondering how to tell when your student can do more on their own.
Oak Meadow has arranged for our families to attend this webinar from Pacific Preparatory at no cost. Three representatives from Pacific Prep, Erika Sneath (Dean of Students), Alyssa Choudhry (Director of Tutoring Services), and Mel Nichols (Chief Operating Officer, who has taught in a classroom and has homeschooled her own children for the last four years), will spend the hour on how to tell which piece is missing for your student and what to do once you know. The decision to turn work over to your student touches more than logistics, so the conversation will take in your whole household to understand what you can realistically sustain.
Examples will lean toward middle and high school, though these skills start much earlier and the ideas apply at any age. There will be time for your questions.
About Pacific Preparatory
Pacific Preparatory offers tutoring in academic subjects, test prep, and enrichment, plus executive-functioning support for K-12 students, all online with experienced educators who get to know each student as an individual. Their tutors have particular experience with students who have learning differences and with those who need flexible scheduling or a more personalized pace. High schoolers who want more can add individual AP courses for credit alongside any homeschool program. Learn more at pacificpreparatory.org.