Executive Function Support
We help students develop study skills and strategies that suit their learning style.
Support Beyond Tutoring: Coaching for Executive Functioning
When a student struggles with executive functioning, it can affect their success at school and, more importantly, how they feel about their ability to learn.Challenges with time management, organization, task initiation, and focus can leave students feeling overwhelmed, discouraged, or unsure of their capabilities. That’s why our executive function coaches at Hampton Tutors are not just here to help with schoolwork—they’re here to help students understand how they learn best and build confidence along the way.
Our coaches work one-on-one with students to strengthen these essential skills through a highly personalized approach. We draw on each student’s natural strengths, interests, and learning style to develop strategies that are not only effective but also sustainable and empowering. This means no one-size-fits-all solutions—just real tools that work for real students.
This includes skill-building in the following areas:
- Time Management: Learning how to break larger tasks into manageable steps, create realistic schedules, and balance academic and personal responsibilities.
- Organization: Developing systems to keep track of assignments, deadlines, materials, and digital files.
- Task Initiation: Overcoming procrastination by creating structured routines and motivating action plans.
- Focus and Attention: Using techniques to reduce distractions, increase sustained attention, and maintain engagement during work sessions.
- Goal Setting: Helping students define academic and personal goals and track progress toward achieving them.
- Self-Monitoring: Building awareness of their own learning process so students can recognize what’s working and adjust when needed.
- Working Memory: Strengthening the ability to hold and manipulate information, which supports problem-solving, reading comprehension, and multi-step tasks.
- Emotional Regulation: Supporting students in managing stress, frustration, or anxiety that can interfere with learning and productivity.
At Hampton Tutors, we believe that with the right tools and support, every student can build the executive functioning skills they need to thrive—not just in school, but in life.
Metacognition
- Self-Awareness
Self-awareness is the ability to be conscious of the ways you think and learn. Through self-awareness you can build on your strengths and work to overcome your challenges. - Self-Management
Self-management, or, inhibitory skills, is the ability to show self-control and resist distraction. These skills allow you to effectively command your thoughts, emotions, and actions. This is often connected to emotional regulation. - Emotional Regulation
Emotional regulation is how you are able to objectively understand what is happening and respond in a calm way. When experiencing strong feelings, emotional regulation enables you to regain control. - Focus and Attention
Focus and attention skills enable you to stay on task while working, prevent distractions, return to the task after a distraction, maintain stamina while working and self-regulate while completing tasks.
Goal Setting and Achievement
- Planning
Planning refers to time management skills and anticipating the materials needed to complete a task. Well- developed planning skills enable you to accomplish required daily tasks, meet academic expectations and attain long-term goals. - Organization
Organization skills help you create systems to effectively complete tasks. These skills enable you to design an effective structure or system that makes sense for you. This skill enables you to take all the parts of a task and sort them into a personalized system for your success. - Prioritization
Prioritization is decision-making skills. By developing these, you will be able to effectively able to rank tasks from most to least urgent. Additionally, prioritization skills help you make decisions about “want to” versus “have to” tasks. - Task Initiation
Task initiation skills enable you to actually begin the work you are expected to do. Often, the phrase “self-starter” is associated with a person who has strong task initiation. Task initiation is strongly connected to planning, organization, and focus.
Flexibility and Adaptability
- Transition Skills
Transition skills enable you to “change gears”, or switch from one task to another. Smoothly making transitions is supported by planning, organization, and emotional regulation. Transition skills include the ability to be flexible even when things don’t go as expected. - Working Memory
Your working memory is like the whiteboard of your brain. It enables you to “keep things in mind” while completing a task. Working memory skills impact your ability to receive verbal directions, remember them, and complete steps in the correct order.
Take a FREE Executive Functioning Assessment today!
An Executive Functioning Assessment with Hampton Tutors is a results-oriented evaluation designed to give students and families clear, actionable insights into improving academic performance through stronger executive functioning skills.
What It Includes (valued at $250):
Personalized Data Overview
A detailed snapshot of the student’s current executive functioning abilities, including time management, organization, task initiation, and emotional regulation.
Performance Breakdown
A concise summary of strengths and areas for growth, identifying where the student excels and where targeted support will have the most impact.
Actionable Strategy Plan
Customized strategies and tools the student can begin using immediately to improve focus, productivity, and academic outcomes.
Executive Skills Framework
A clear explanation of executive functioning, how each skill area influences learning, and how challenges may present in day-to-day academic life.
What is Executive Function?
The executive functions are a set of skills we use to complete tasks and achieve goals. Watch to learn more.
Executive Function Assessments
Before starting with an executive function coach, students undergo a thorough executive function skills consultation with our Executive Function Specialist. Parents and students receive a report detailing the student’s unique learning profile, including areas of strength and areas for improvement.
The report contains:
– Data summary of their executive function assessment
– Explanation of their strengths and target areas to improve
– Customized strategies to implement for improvement
– Overview of executive function skills, categories, and traits
– Recorded screencast with our Executive Function Specialist providing a personalized explanation of the executive function assessment and strategies to implement
HOW IT WORKS
✓ Free trial lesson
✓ Lessons available in-home, online, or at school
✓ Progress reports after each lesson
✓ Help with homework / school projects in addition to executive function support
Pricing
We offer flexible one-on-one coaching options—available online or in person—to meet a variety of needs.
Package Pricing – In Person or Live Online Coaching
- 10-hour package: $175/hr
- 15-hour package: $165/hr
- 25-hour package: $150/hr
Pay-As-You-Go (Online or In-Person)
- $195 per hour
- No package commitment required