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The Academic Coaching Podcast
Are you an educator deeply invested in helping neurodivergent, anxious, or struggling learners? Get ready for a deep dive into study skills and executive function strategies — teaching students how not to bore their own brains, in learning and life. Think: science of learning and executive function strategies, guest experts, and real talk about the craft of coaching. With a side of business advice for the self-employed coach. Come, dig in, and learn!
Episodes
- The Academic Coaching Podcast
Who Needs to Adapt—the Student or the School? | Emily Kircher-Morris
Why are neurodivergent students so often the ones being asked to adapt? I loved talking with Emily Kircher-Morris, co-author of Neurodiversity-Affirming…
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What Tech Actually Helps Neurodivergent Students? | Joan Green
What if some of the best technology for supporting neurodivergent students is already sitting inside the devices they use every day? In this episode, I talk…
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How Do You Find Your Style as an Academic Coach? | Nancy Minolli
In this episode, Gretchen talks with longtime Anti-Boring Learning Lab member Nancy Minolli about what it actually looks like to grow into your own style as an…
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Are Your Students Thinking—or Just Complying? | Ashley Doty
What if a student looks completely engaged—taking notes, following directions, doing exactly what the teacher asked—but isn't actually doing much thinking? In…
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Should Students Know Their Own Diagnoses? | Liz Angoff
What happens when a student’s diagnosis could help them understand themselves—but the adults around them aren’t ready for them to know? In this episode, I talk…
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How Did She Grow Her EF Coaching Biz THIS Fast?! | Jordyn Shapiro
In this episode, Gretchen talks with Jordyn Shapiro, founder of Just Start LA, about what it looks like to build an executive function coaching business…
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A New Tutor Interviews ME on My Own Podcast | Alondra Padilla
In this episode, the tables get turned: new tutor Alondra Padilla comes prepared to interview Gretchen about how she found her way from teaching to academic…
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Can You Teach Study Skills in 5 Days? | Catherine Pacilio
Catherine Pacilio, an executive function and academic coach and founder of Pacilio Coaching, joins Gretchen to unpack what happened when she and fellow…
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Student Series: Seven Years later, Coaching Finally Clicked | Frankie Trevor
Frankie Trevor, a senior at California State University, Sacramento and former academic coaching client of Gretchen Wegner, joins Gretchen to reflect on how…
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When Teachers Get Excited About Brain Science | Shane & Suzy
Suzy Evans and Dr. Shane Saeed, instructional coordinators in Colorado's St. Vrain Valley School District, have spent eight years building a different kind of…
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Executive Function Isn't Just Starting — It's Finishing, Too | Sarah Ward
In this episode, Gretchen talks with Sarah Ward — speech-language pathologist and Co-Director of Cognitive Connections — about why task completion is its own…
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Why Great Coaches Need Better Business Systems | Patrick Quinlan
In this episode, Gretchen talks with Patrick Quinlan — actor, improviser, executive function coach, and dad — about the moment he realized his longtime way of…
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Why Asking for Help Is the Real EF Skill | Seth Perler
In this episode, Gretchen sits down with Seth Perler — executive function coach and creator of TEFOS, the Executive Function Online Summit, now in its 8th…
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How to Build a Sellable Academic or EF Coaching Business | Cathleen Pittman
In this episode, Gretchen talks with Cathleen Pittman — academic and executive function coach, organizational specialist, and founder of Our Learning Studio —…
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Who Should Teach Students How to Learn? | Susannah Cole
In this inaugural episode, Gretchen talks with Susannah Cole — executive function coach, educational diagnostician, and co-author of Flexible Mindsets in…