Academic Support
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Academic Support focuses on helping students manage the day-to-day and week-to-week demands of school. It is practical, immediate, and task-oriented.
This type of support helps students stay organized, complete assignments, review lessons, and follow through on expectations they already understand but may struggle to manage independently.
Academic Support may include:
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Reviewing upcoming assignments or lessons
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Helping a student break down and complete current work
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Checking planners, calendars, and learning platforms
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Providing reminders and accountability
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Answering clarifying questions about class content
Academic Support is not tutoring and not therapy. It does not aim to build new cognitive or behavioral systems. Instead, it provides scaffolding in the moment so students can keep pace with school and reduce stress for both students and families.
Academic Support vs. Executive Function
Executive Functioning Coaching focuses on building long-term skills, while Academic Support focuses on supporting current demands. Students with executive functioning challenges often know what they are supposed to do but struggle with skills like planning, prioritizing, time awareness, working memory, and task initiation. Executive Functioning Coaching explicitly teaches these skills over time through structured practice, reflection, and strategy development.
Academic Support, on the other hand, uses external support in place of those skills when needed. It helps students succeed now—while executive functioning skills are still developing or when life circumstances temporarily overwhelm a student’s capacity to manage independently.
A helpful way to think about the difference:
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Executive Functioning Coaching = learning how to manage school and life independently
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Academic Support = having help managing school while those skills are still developing or stretched thin
At Harmon School, these services can work together. Academic Support stabilizes the present; Executive Functioning Coaching builds the future.
What does a session Look Like?
1. Check-In & Priorities
Review grades, assignments, and upcoming deadlines to set clear goals for the session.
2. Planning & Organization
Identify missing or upcoming work and break tasks or projects into manageable steps.
3. Targeted Academic Support
Review concepts, check for understanding, and provide guidance on homework, studying, or test preparation.
4. Active Work Time
Complete assignments, study, or draft and revise written work with real-time feedback
5. Wrap-Up & Next Steps
Summarize progress and plan clear next steps before the next session.