Empowering Student Success
Academic Coaching, Literacy Specialists, and Tutoring
Our goal is for ALL students to love learning!
Classes & Workshops
Learn how the brain and body support focus, motivation, and self-regulation in this interactive 6-session workshop.
Focus, motivation, and self-regulation can be challenging at any age—but they don’t have to be. In this engaging six-session series, participants will learn how to better understand and harness their own focus and motivation by exploring how the brain and body work together to manage emotions, goals, interactions, and decision-making.
Through interactive activities, reflection, and practical strategies, participants will explore who they are from the inside out while building skills that support growth, confidence, and personal success. Each session builds on the last, helping attendees develop meaningful tools they can use in everyday life.
Next Class starts Tuesday, September 15th.
Empowering Focus: Brain-Based Tools for Motivation & Self-Regulation
Tuesdays at 4:45pm beginning September 15!
NEW!
Launch for Teens: Building real skills teens need for life!
Meets Tuesdays at 6:00pm beginning September 15th!
Adulthood arrives fast, and it takes for granted a whole set of skills no one ever formally teaches: managing your own time and attention, making decisions under pressure, advocating for yourself, and staying steady when things get stressful. Launch is a six-week group for older teens that builds exactly those — the executive-function
and self-regulation skills underneath a confident, capable adult.
Through hands-on projects and honest reflection, your teen practices running their own life: setting a goal and actually reaching it, handling frustration, knowing themselves well enough to ask for what they need. It's the groundwork for whatever comes next — college, work, independence.
Best for: teens in roughly sophomore year and up.
Next class begins Tuesday, September 15th.
Figure it Out!
Rotating 6-week theme cohorts
Meets Thursdays at 5:00pm beginning September 17th!
Each six-week cohort takes on a different world
(art, engineering, money, storytelling, nature), but they all grow the same muscles: creative problem-solving, critical thinking, the nerve to try something, fail, and try again better. The confidence that comes from actually making something is the kind that sticks.
The five cohorts:
Figure It Out: Studio — Art (9/17/26-10/22/26)
Explore real artistic processes, movements, and ways of making — and learn to critique like an artist. We stretchwhat we think is possible and make new possibilities. For kids who love to create and kids who think they “can't draw” alike.
Figure It Out: Build — Engineering (10/2926-12/10/26 off the week of Thanksgiving)
Build contraptions and see the principles in action — levers, tension, motion, structure — with your hands, not a textbook. Break things, fix things, and find out why they work.
Figure It Out: Worth — money & value (1/7/27-2/11/27)What makes something valuable? What does it take to earn it, save it, manage it? Kids explore money smarts for all ages — anchored by a barter project that runs the whole cohort, where a single small object goes on a trading journey to see how far its value can travel.
Figure It Out: Story — Storytelling (2/18/27-4/1/27 off the week of 3/26)Build and tell stories across different forms. How does a story actually work — and how do you shape one that lands? For kids bursting with ideas and kids still finding their voice.
Figure It Out: Wild — Nature ((4/8/27-5/14/27)Get outside and into it: observing the natural world, asking real questions, and discovering the ingenious ways living things solve problems. Hands-on, curious, and a little muddy.