Who I Help
The Warrior Student™ system is beneficial to students of all levels – from elementary school to undergrads.
Whether your child has a formal diagnosis or simply lacks a reliable system for managing daily academic demands, the Warrior Student™ framework provides the structure, guardrails, and behavioral practice needed to access their full capability.
Types of Students I Help
Types of Students I Help
- Capable students who struggle to consistently manage school and daily responsibilities
- Students who struggle with organization, planning, prioritizing, time management, initiation, self-regulation, or follow-through
- Students who rely heavily on parent reminders, prompting, monitoring, or help getting started
- Students who understand the material but struggle with managing themselves around the material
- Students who become overwhelmed, avoidant, or stuck when managing academic responsibilities
- Students who are doing well academically but still rely heavily on others for the planning, organizing, remembering, or follow-through behind their success
- Students who need help developing routines, systems, and habits that support greater independence
- Students navigating transitions that require greater levels of responsibility and independence, including middle school, high school, college, and graduate school
- Students experiencing academic difficulty
- Students with an IEP or 504 Plan
- Students with identified executive-function challenges
- Students returning to academic demands following an injury or other disruption, when executive-function and self-management support is appropriate
Students with ADHD or Executive-Function Challenges
Students with ADHD or executive-function challenges may experience difficulty with sustained attention, initiation, organization, planning, working memory, time management, self-regulation, or follow-through.
Warrior Student™ focuses on what those challenges look like in the student's actual daily life and on developing the systems, habits, and self-management behaviors that support increasing ownership and independence.
Students Diagnosed or Displaying Signs of ADHD:
Inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity; trouble with sustained focus; challenged with following directions, poor planning, forgetfulness, sifting through information, and recognizing what is significant.
Why Parents Seek Services
Parents contact me when their student’s current grades don’t reflect their actual potential, they are losing time and their child wants to do better but doesn’t know how. Here are some of the issues parents talk about:
Elementary School Parents
- "She tells us all the time that she’s not good at school and she’s not smart. It breaks my heart because I don’t know how to help her."
- "He has trouble staying focused in class and following instructions."
- "He is all about getting his work done quickly rather than giving his best effort. His assignments are typically incomplete or done incorrectly."
- "In school he has trouble following directions, organizing materials and staying on task. Homework is very hard and I have to be involved in every aspect. He has no confidence to start without me and this is only 4th grade."
Middle School Parents
- "The idea of homework is so overwhelming he chooses not to initiate due to a perception of failure. He completely shuts down before even trying to start."
- "He has ADHD and I am not comfortable medicating him."
- "She leaves important papers and folders at school; rarely submitting homework on time."
- "He is extremely disorganized. I make weekly trips to school with materials he forgets at home."
High School Parents
- "She does her homework but continually forgets to hand it in."
- "She doesn’t know how to study. She waits until the night before and has so much information to process that her anxiety takes over and she’s completely overwhelmed and doesn’t know where to start."
- "Her idea of studying is cramming the night before. She gets good grades but is functioning under a pressure cooker. There is no time management and she has no sense of self-care."
- "Getting out of bed and getting to school on time results in constant family fighting."
- "She suffered from a concussion and is having a difficult time academically regarding time management and organizational skills. She doesn’t feel like she is a good student anymore."
- "He is reactive, always waiting for “others” to reach out to him. (Teachers, Coach, Employer) His communication skills are passive as opposed to proactive."
- "He won’t go for help after school, feels uncomfortable talking with teachers."
- "He procrastinates as long as possible to start homework and he’s exhausted the next morning. I am the one constantly reminding him to start."
College Parents
- "He did well in high school since everything came easy to him. Now having a syllabus he needs to prioritize and time manage. Unfortunately this doesn’t come natural to him. He doesn’t manage his time at all, grades are low and we are very worried."