Student Success Coaching

Student Success Coaching provides students entering grade 5 through university with the opportunity to learn the tools & strategies they need to succeed, essentially helping them learn how to learn, make healthy choices, and develop their executive function and self-management skills. Focus is placed on strengthening executive function and academic skills to support the development of self-management, independence, and self-esteem by integrating evidence-based strategies with an encouraging, connected, heartfelt approach.

Step 1: Relationship-Building

Coaches build strong and secure relationships with students by working to earn their trust and buy-in to the process.

Step 2: Learning Skills & Strategies

Students learn tools and strategies to help them with organization, time management, executive function development, study skills, accountability, active reading comprehension, and structured writing skills:

Organization &

Time Management

Material Management
Planning & Prioritizing
Using a visual planner to manage & track time
Breaking assignments into small, manageable parts
Using an agenda properly
Setting & attaining short & long term goals
Setting up accountability systems

Executive Function Development

Metacognition & active thinking
Situational awareness (reading a room and understanding your role in a situation)
Flexible thinking & generalization
Time awareness & identifying causes of procrastination
Doing and following through
How to plan for anything

Study Strategies

& Test Prep

How studying works
How to prepare for a test
Effective note-taking strategies
Previewing and pre-teaching upcoming academic material
How to study effectively
How to effectively answer various types of test questions
Planning & estimating time during the test itself
Evaluating test performance

Active Reading for Comprehension

Reading actively
Reading for comprehension
Previewing
Finding the main idea
Strategies for inferencing & reading between the lines
Establishing connections
Identifying themes and literary devices

Written Expression Development

Breaking down written work
Developing a plan for written assignments
Brainstorming & idea generation
Developing a structured outline
Developing strong thesis statements
Paragraph and essay writing
Editing your work

Self-Management

& Independence

Development & management of healthy routines (for homework, morning, bedtime, etc.)
Development of self-confidence and independence skills
Management of family dynamics to reduce arguing around academics & EF-related tasks
Setting up communication with school & supporting IEP development

Step 3: Implementing (or doing)

Students work with their Coach to implement the strategies they've learned in a structured and accountable way. With support, practice, follow-up and accountability, students will eventually be able to master the implementation of these skills and become independent learners. This can take place over several months or years.

Session Details

✅ One-on-one weekly coaching sessions

✅ Personalized match with a Brightside Coach

✅ Hands-on strategies for organization, time management, routines, study skills & academic strategy

✅ Weekly parent touchpoint at the end of each session

✅ Access to detailed session notes

Cost: 50-mins - $110.00 / 25-min follow-up session - $55.00