Support for students who are capable — but struggling.
SchoolHouse Collaborative helps students build executive functioning, emotional regulation, confidence, flexibility, and school-based skills through relationship-driven support.
Your child may:
struggle with organization
avoid school work
become overwhelmed easily
struggle socially
shut down during frustration
know the material but struggle to show it
need movement to stay engaged
feel discouraged by school
Support looks different depending on what your family needs — understanding and navigating an IEP, building executive functioning and social-emotional skills, or both. Either way, the goal is the same: the right support now, so your child (and you) feel more confident moving forward.
How We Support Your Family
IEPs can be overwhelming — especially when you're trying to understand the process while also advocating for your child. With more than a decade of experience as a special education teacher and hundreds of IEPs written and amended, I help families understand their child's plan and feel prepared to participate in the process.
IEP & School Advocacy
Reviewing an existing IEP
Understanding goals, accommodations, services, and supports
identifying questions or concerns for the school team
Preparing for an upcoming IEP meeting
Reviewing evaluations and school documentation
Attending IEP meetings with the family, when needed
Thinking through appropriate next steps
SUPPORT CAN INCLUDE:
The goal isn't to take over the process — it's to help you understand what you're looking at, know what questions to ask, and feel confident in conversations about your child's education.
Executive Functioning & Social-Emotional Coaching
Knowing what to do and being able to do it independently are two very different things. Through 1:1 coaching, I work directly with students to identify and build the skills that may be getting in the way at school, at home, or in everyday life.
Getting started without repeated reminders
Planning and organization
Following through with tasks
Time management
Remembering responsibilities
Emotional regulation
Flexibility and handling unexpected changes
Communication and self-advocacy
Problem-solving
Building independence
TOPICS WE SUPPORT:
We start by explicitly teaching and practicing the skill 1:1. Once the student understands it, we begin applying it to situations they actually experience.
Parent Coaching & Family Support
The student gets the coaching. The family builds the independence.
A child may understand a strategy during our session, but building independence requires practicing it throughout the week. Together, we figure out what's realistic for your family and where more structure or accountability may help — then I create individualized supports such as routines, accountability sheets, visual systems, or schedules, and teach both student and parent how they work, so everyone uses consistent language.
Parents aren't expected to do the coaching themselves — your role is the consistency that lets your child practice between sessions. Over time, the goal is to reduce that support: we're not building a system your child needs forever, we're building the skills they need to manage it themselves.
