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Exciting News: Self-paced executive functioning courses for middle and high school students launching September 2025!
Welcome to Exceptional Functioning, a one-on-one support service developed by Leslie Baez to help middle school and high school students develop and perfect their executive functioning skills for success in school and beyond.
What are executive functioning skills?
Executive functioning is the way your brain helps manage all of your tasks, think of them as management skills. There are three general areas of executive functioning skills:
Working Memory: Typically thought of as short term memory, working memory helps your brain organize new information for long term storage. Your child may struggle with working memory if they have trouble with mental math, following practical instructions, or using information later.
Cognitive Flexibility: These are the skills that help your brain switch between thinking about two concepts or multiple concepts at the same time. These skills also enable your child to change their thinking based on a change in expectations or demands. Your child may struggle with cognitive flexibility if they struggle to see things from different angles or can't use different strategies to solve problems.
Inhibitory control: These are the skills that allow your child to control their impulses and behavioral responses to stimuli. If your child struggles with inhibitory control they may have trouble staying on task, self-monitoring, and organizing, planning, and prioritizing.
How do I support your student?
Before we begin, both you and your student will complete a comprehensive assessment survey that identifies their unique strengths, current challenges, and specific goals. During our initial consultation, we'll discuss these results together and I'll recommend focusing on one or two key executive functioning skills that will make the biggest impact for your student.
Whether through 1:1 virtual sessions or our self-paced course, I create a completely personalized plan tailored to your child's learning style, schedule, and specific needs. No two students are alike, so no two plans are identical.
Each session builds practical, real-world systems and strategies that your student can immediately use in their daily life. We focus on developing sustainable habits rather than quick fixes, ensuring your child gains confidence and independence in managing their responsibilities. The goal is always for students to become their own executive functioning coaches, equipped with tools they can rely on long after our time together ends.
For 1:1 sessions, your student receives personalized coaching and immediate feedback. For self-paced learners, the course provides the same proven strategies with the flexibility to work at their own speed and revisit concepts as needed.
Sample Supports
Personalized Planning Systems - Help your student choose and customize a planner or digital system that actually works for their lifestyle and preferences, then teach them how to use it consistently for daily and weekly task management.
Prioritization Strategies - Teach practical techniques for identifying what's truly urgent versus important, and how to tackle both major projects and smaller daily tasks without feeling overwhelmed.
Subject-Specific Study Routines - Develop customized study systems that work across different subjects, helping students prepare effectively for tests while managing multiple classes and deadlines.
Focus and Self-Regulation Skills - Build awareness of personal distraction patterns and teach concrete strategies for maintaining attention, managing impulses, and getting back on track when focus drifts.
Time Management Techniques - Learn realistic time estimation, scheduling strategies, and how to build buffer time for unexpected challenges or longer-than-expected tasks.
Organization Systems - Create sustainable systems for managing physical and digital materials, assignments, and important information that students can maintain independently.
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