The Ladder Method Professional Development & Executive Functioning Curriculum For Educators In NYC
Empower your educators, support your students, and build a thriving academic community with evidence based executive functioning programs designed for institutions.
Why Partner With Us
When you bring The Ladder Method into your institution, you're not just adding another program. You're investing in a proven framework that transforms how students learn and how educators teach. Our institutional partnerships provide comprehensive Executive Function Coaching NYC, NY schools trust to address the growing need for executive functioning support across all grade levels.
We understand the challenges facing schools today. Students arrive with varying levels of executive function skills, and many educators lack the training to teach these critical abilities effectively. Our proprietary curriculum fills that gap by equipping your staff with concrete strategies they can implement immediately. From organization and time management to emotional regulation and task initiation, we provide the complete toolkit your institution needs.
What makes our approach different is the depth of our commitment. We don't drop off a manual and disappear. Our team works alongside your educators through professional development sessions, ongoing coaching support, and collaborative planning. We've spent over a decade refining these methods with hundreds of students, and we've seen firsthand how the right support transforms struggling learners into confident, independent thinkers.
Whether you serve elementary students building foundational skills or college students navigating complex academic demands, our framework adapts to meet your community's unique needs. The result is a school wide culture shift where executive functioning becomes as fundamental as reading and math.
Our Proven Process for Institutions
Implementing executive functioning support across an entire institution requires more than good intentions. It demands a structured, evidence based approach that respects your school's culture while driving measurable change. Our process has been refined through partnerships with schools throughout New York City and beyond.
Needs Assessment & Discovery
We begin with a comprehensive needs assessment. Our team meets with administrators, teachers, and support staff to understand your current challenges and identify specific areas where executive function coaching can make the greatest impact. This collaborative discovery phase ensures we design a program aligned with your institution's goals and values. We take time to understand your student population, existing support structures, and the unique aspects of your school culture that will influence program implementation.
Professional Development & Training
Next, we deliver customized professional development training for your educators. These sessions go far beyond theory. Teachers learn practical techniques they can apply immediately in their classrooms, from teaching students to break down complex assignments to helping them develop personalized organizational systems. We focus on developmental appropriateness, so fourth grade strategies differ meaningfully from high school interventions. Our training equips your staff with both the knowledge and confidence to support executive functioning development in everyday instruction.
Implementation & Progress Tracking
Implementation happens through a combination of direct student coaching and educator support. Depending on your needs, we can provide on site coaches who work with students individually or in small groups, or we can train your existing staff to deliver our curriculum with ongoing supervision from our team. Many institutions choose a hybrid model that maximizes both immediate impact and long term sustainability. Throughout the partnership, we track progress using evidence based metrics. You'll see concrete data on student improvements in organization, task completion, time management, and academic performance. We believe accountability matters, and we're committed to demonstrating the value of executive functioning support through measurable outcomes.
Don't let another semester pass while your students struggle with skills that can be taught. Join the growing community of NYC schools choosing to prioritize executive functioning as a cornerstone of student success.
Transform Your School Community Today
Call us today at (310) 684-2543 or (917) 677-3299 to schedule your free consultation.
The Team Difference
What separates exceptional executive function coaching from generic study skills tips? The answer lies in the people delivering the support and the framework guiding their work.
Every coach on The Ladder Method team has completed specialized training in our proprietary curriculum. Many hold master's degrees or teaching credentials, bringing both educational expertise and real classroom experience to their work. We don't hire quickly or train lightly. Our rigorous onboarding process ensures that each coach understands not just what strategies to teach, but why they work and how to adapt them for different learners.
Our institutional programs benefit from a collaborative team structure that sets us apart from traditional tutoring models. When you partner with us, your students and educators gain access to a network of professionals who communicate regularly about progress, share insights, and problem solve together. No student slips through the cracks because our team based approach creates multiple layers of support and accountability.
The foundation of our success is the proprietary curriculum created by our founder, Candice Lapin. She developed these evidence based techniques over years of work with students facing executive functioning challenges, combining learning science, social emotional support, and practical skill building into a comprehensive framework. This isn't a collection of borrowed strategies. It's a cohesive system designed specifically to help individuals with diverse learning profiles build sustainable executive function skills.
We're also committed to ongoing innovation. Our team stays current with the latest research in educational psychology, neuroscience, and learning differences. We regularly refine our methods based on data from our hundreds of active clients and feedback from the educators we train. When you partner with The Ladder Method, you're not getting a static program. You're joining a learning community dedicated to continuous improvement.
For institutions, this means you receive not only direct student support but also comprehensive professional development that builds your staff's capacity to sustain these practices long after our formal partnership ends. We're invested in your school's lasting success, not just short term gains.
10 Common Challenges Your Institution Faces
Your students struggle to keep track of assignments across multiple classes, leading to chronic disorganization and missing work
Teachers spend excessive time managing student behaviors related to poor planning and time management instead of actually teaching
Neurodivergent learners and students with ADHD lack the specialized support they need to access the curriculum effectively
Bright students consistently underperform because they've never learned the foundational skills of self management and study strategies
Your school's approach to executive functioning is fragmented, with no cohesive framework guiding interventions across grade levels
Educators feel unprepared to teach executive function skills, lacking both training and concrete tools to support struggling learners
Students transition poorly between educational levels because executive functioning expectations increase without explicit instruction
Parents repeatedly express frustration that their children seem capable but can't translate intelligence into academic success
Your institution invests in academic tutoring that addresses content gaps but not the underlying organizational and planning deficits
School culture inadvertently labels students as unmotivated or lazy when the real issue is untaught executive functioning skills
These challenges don't have to define your school's story. Targeted executive functioning support transforms struggling students into thriving learners and empowers educators with the skills they need to make that transformation possible.
Our Suite Of Services
Executive Functioning Coaching, Study Skills Coaching & Professional Development
Executive Functioning & Study Skills Coaching
Personalized one on one coaching for elementary through college students and adults. We focus on building core executive function skills including organization, time management, task initiation, working memory, emotional regulation, and cognitive flexibility. Our approach teaches you how to learn, not what to learn, creating strategies that transfer across all subjects and life areas.
Tutoring & Other Services
Subject specific academic support and test preparation services. While our primary focus is executive functioning, we also offer traditional tutoring for students who need content mastery alongside skill development. This comprehensive approach ensures academic success from multiple angles.
Professional Development & Curriculum for Schools
Customized training programs and curriculum development for educational institutions. We partner with schools to bring our proprietary executive function framework to teachers, administrators, and entire student bodies. This institutional approach creates consistent support systems across learning environments.
Core Executive Function Skills We Develop
Across all our services, we emphasize practical skill building tailored to how your brain works. Our coaching includes visual planning tools, digital organization methods, time blocking strategies, realistic scheduling systems, micro goal techniques, structured accountability, note taking frameworks, memory support systems, mindfulness practices, stress management techniques, and cognitive flexibility training.
Our coaching focuses on how to learn, not what to learn. Unlike subject tutoring, we equip you with strategies that transfer across all areas of life. Unlike therapy, we emphasize practical skill building and goal execution rather than emotional processing.
Serving NYC Schools from Upper West Side to Long Island City
The Ladder Method proudly serves institutions across New York City's vibrant educational landscape. Whether your school sits near Central Park on the Upper West Side or in the growing academic community of Long Island City in Queens, we bring our proven executive function coaching directly to your students and educators.
We understand the unique pressures facing NYC schools. The competitive academic environment, diverse student populations, and complex learning needs require more than generic interventions. Our team has deep experience working within the city's educational ecosystem, and we design our institutional partnerships to fit the realities of urban schools.
Many of our partner institutions are located in neighborhoods where families value educational innovation and recognize that traditional approaches don't serve all learners equally. From independent schools in Manhattan to public schools in Brooklyn, we've helped institutions across the five boroughs build comprehensive executive functioning programs that produce lasting results.
Frequently Asked Questions About Executive Function Coaching
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Executive function coaching focuses on teaching students how to learn rather than what to learn. While tutors help with specific subject content and special education addresses diagnosed disabilities, our coaching develops the underlying skills that make all learning possible. We teach organization, time management, task initiation, planning, and self regulation through structured, evidence based methods. These skills transfer across subjects and situations, creating independent learners who can succeed without constant adult intervention.
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Our coaches complete specialized training in The Ladder Method's proprietary curriculum before working with students. Many hold master's degrees in education, psychology, or related fields, and most bring years of classroom teaching experience. We require all coaches to demonstrate mastery of our framework through rigorous assessments and ongoing supervision. For institutional partnerships, we also provide train the trainer models where we equip your existing staff with our methods under the guidance of our expert team.
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Most students begin showing improvements within four to eight weeks of consistent executive function coaching. Early changes often include better organization of materials, increased task completion rates, and reduced anxiety around schoolwork. Deeper transformations like internalized planning systems and independent problem solving develop over 18 to 24 months as students build new habits. Our institutional programs track progress through multiple data points to ensure you can see both immediate wins and long term growth.
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Absolutely. Approximately 70% of our clients have ADHD, autism spectrum differences, or other neurodivergent profiles. Our framework is specifically designed for diverse learners, emphasizing structure, visual supports, and positive reinforcement techniques that align with how different brains process information. We don't use a one size fits all approach. Instead, we teach students to identify their unique strengths and challenges, then build personalized systems that work with their natural learning style.
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Our institutional partnerships are customized based on your school's specific needs, but typically include professional development training for educators, direct student coaching (either by our team or your trained staff), curriculum materials and resources, ongoing supervision and consultation, and progress tracking with data analysis. We work collaboratively with your leadership team to design a program that fits your budget, schedule, and goals. The investment ranges based on the scope of services, and we're happy to discuss options that make executive functioning support accessible for your institution.
Every student deserves the opportunity to develop the executive function skills that unlock their full potential. Every educator deserves the training and support to make that happen. The Ladder Method has spent over a decade perfecting our approach to Executive Function Coaching NYC, NY institutions count on for real, measurable results.
Your school's partnership with us begins with a single conversation. We'll learn about your community's unique challenges and goals, share how our proven framework can address those needs, and design a customized program that fits your institution. Together, we'll create an environment where struggling students become confident learners and teachers feel equipped to support every child who walks through their classroom door.
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