Executive Functioning Coaching in San Carlos
In-home coaching for San Carlos students with ADHD, autism, dyslexia and twice-exceptional profiles, from experienced educators who understand learning differences. The planning, organization and follow-through skills school expects but rarely teaches.
Bright San Carlos students who cannot get it done
Teachers say so. You know so. But somewhere between understanding the material and turning it in, things fall apart.
- Homework takes three hours when it should take one
- Assignments get finished but never turned in
- The backpack is a black hole of crumpled papers
- Sunday night becomes a weekly crisis
- Report cards say "not working to potential"
Where it shows up in San Carlos
For most San Carlos families the gaps become visible at Central Middle School and Tierra Linda Middle School: multiple teachers, a locker, a portal, and homework that is suddenly the student's job to track. Carlmont High School or Sequoia High School raises the load again. Private-school families from St. Charles School see the same thing, often a year earlier.
Carlmont's math sequence runs from Algebra 1 through AP Calculus BC and Multivariable Calculus, with an acceleration policy that rewards students who can manage the pace. The students who fall behind there are rarely the ones who cannot do the math; they are the ones who cannot keep the work moving.
If your child has ADHD, autism, dyslexia, dysgraphia, a twice-exceptional (2e) profile, or no diagnosis at all, these patterns are not about effort or motivation. They are about executive functioning: the skills that let a student plan, start, organize, manage time, regulate frustration and follow through. These skills can be taught. That is what Plato+ executive functioning coaching does, and we do it in your San Carlos home.
Three steps, then it is weekly
Free assessment
A 30-minute conversation about your student, their school and what is getting in the way. No pitch.
Matched, usually within a week
We propose the coach, a written plan around the first two or three priorities, and a weekly time. You meet the coach before the first session. If a match will take longer, we tell you on the call.
Weekly coaching in San Carlos
60-minute sessions in your home or online, the same coach every week, and a monthly check-in with you.
No pitch on the call. If coaching is not the right fit for your student, we say so.
Per session
Or $215 a session online. Save more with a semester commitment. A coach and a subject tutor can work from one plan, at the same rates.
Common Questions
Do you come to our home in San Carlos?
Yes. Most coaching happens at your kitchen table or your student's desk in San Carlos, because that is where the homework lives and where the systems have to work. Online sessions via Zoom are available anywhere, and some families mix the two.
Can you work with our student's 504 plan or IEP?
Yes. We work from the supports already in place, communicate with teachers when you want us to, and join IEP or 504 meetings at your invitation. We do not represent families in those meetings, and we do not diagnose or provide therapy.
Is this tutoring?
No. Tutoring teaches the content. Executive functioning coaching builds the systems that let your student get the content done and turned in: starting, planning, tracking, following through, and asking for help. Families who want a coach and a subject tutor working from one plan can have both, at the same rates.
Who are the coaches?
Plato+ EF coaches are deeply experienced educators who understand learning differences, with years of work with ADHD, autism, dyslexia and twice-exceptional students. Our founder matches your student to one coach after the free assessment, and that coach stays with your student.
More on the service: executive functioning coaching at Plato+. Subject tutoring in San Carlos: tutoring in San Carlos.
Ready to talk?
No commitment, no pressure. Just an honest conversation about what would help your student in San Carlos.