This practical manual presents an evidence-based coaching model for helping students whose academic performance is suffering due to deficits in executive skills, including time and task management, planning, organization, impulse control, and emotional regulation. In just a few minutes a day, coaches can provide crucial support and instruction tailored to individual students' needs. From leading experts, the book provides detailed guidelines for incorporating coaching into a response-to-intervention framework, identifying students who can benefit, conducting each session, and monitoring progress. Special topics include how to implement a classwide peer coaching program. More than three dozen reproducible assessment tools, forms, and handouts are featured.

1. Executive skills and brain development -- 2. Theoretical underpinnings for coaching -- 3. Basic coaching for academic success -- 4. Advanced coaching techniques -- 5. Setting up a school-based academic coaching program -- 6. Classwide peer coaching -- 7. Peer coaching for social skills development -- 8. Parting thoughts.