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Every practice in the library, in one list. Narrow it by how long you have, who it is written for, and where you are right now.
Let the child score themselves on the same sheet the teacher scores. Two columns, filled in separately, then looked at together.
At first the two columns can be miles apart, and that is the useful bit rather than a problem. Nobody is being caught out. Over the weeks the gap…
Before anything else, check the child actually knows what the homework is. Most homework goes missing at that first step, not at the effort step.
It might be on the board, on the school portal or in the planner with the teacher having glanced at it, and any of those is fine as long as it can be…
Print the agreement out and stick it up where the child will see it. In a drawer it may as well not exist.
The moment that matters is the one where the console is right there and the maths is not started, and nothing you agreed a fortnight ago is in the…
Before a task you have been circling for days, give five minutes to moving your body. A brisk walk or a couple of flights of stairs is often enough to make starting feel less like pushing at a door that will not open.
Treat the movement as part of the task rather than something virtuous you do separately. The lift is short lived, so it helps most sitting right…
There is more about focus, starting, and adhd than the practices: the focus, starting, and adhd area has the themes and the courses too.
Light movement while you work is not stolen from the work. Rocking a foot, standing up, a slow circuit of the room on a call: for many people the concentration goes up rather than down.
Worth testing instead of assuming. Take one task you always do sitting still and do it moving gently: read on your feet, take the meeting walking,…