Executive Function Coaching That Works
An article by Mary Miele Executive Function Coaching THAT WORKS Maybe one day not long ago, your 7th grader needed executive functioning support… You spent hours scouring the Internet for […]
Three of My Favorite Pieces of Advice for Parents of School-Aged Children, by Mary Miele
These days I’m a parent of a fourth grader, a seventh grader and a tenth grader, and I work as an education consultant with families. Daily I have calls with
Having Behavior Issues? Try Using this One Word.
As parents and teachers, we often struggle with how to deal with the symptoms of learning challenges in children. We want to help them succeed, but it can be challenging
Ways to Handle Private School Admissions Notification Dates and Decisions
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Plan Your Break
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Holiday Shopping Guide
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EP #39: Private School Admissions in NYC
During this episode, Becky Reback and Mary Miele talk about the executive functioning model, how it was created, and ways parents can use it to improve their child’s executive functioning at any age. The model includes four pillars: academic research, areas of inquiry and instruction, assessment and strategy creation and skill mastery.
Disability: ABILITY
The field of special education in 2022 has progressed to a point where we have ways to treat and support students with learning issues, and yet, we frame so much of the special education process from a deficit-based mindset. Even the word, “disability” supports this negative connotation of neurodiversity. This idea book outlines a paradigm for how to view and work with students with diagnoses formed through experience, research, and creativity in a way that supports an ability-forward mindset. Anyone who is parenting or teaching in the special education field would benefit from reading this book and using its ideas within the context of their practice.
How to Tutor
Tutoring is a billion-dollar industry. Much of it involves standardized test preparation and content-based training for tutors. This book, built on my 25+ year career as a learning specialist, outlines a model for tutors that they can use to ensure the whole child learns well. It shows tutors how to tutor in a way that will be most impactful, especially as we enter test-optional admissions processes and a successful learning experience. Tutors can use this book to frame their practice, retain students, and empower students to learn well.
A Parent’s Guide to Special Education
Each child who has special needs brings special gifts. But often, when we start our journey of parenting our children with special needs, it doesn’t feel that way. We might be really struggling to parent, or to watch them fail at learning or socializing. We sit in an IEP meeting or school meeting and hear how something is going wrong and the struggles our child is having. It feels pretty awful, and our human brains tend to focus on what we need to improve – what is going wrong.