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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.
A task needs smoothing at both ends. If it looks big and horrible you will not begin it, and if the middle is full of snags you will not see it through.
These are two different problems and people usually only work on one. Making the start smaller helps you begin: open the document, write one line.…
Start with less work than they can manage, not more, and add back slowly. Break the long jobs into pieces small enough that each one can be finished and noticed.
Setting the first week deliberately below capacity feels like giving in. What it actually does is produce a run of finished things, and a child who…
Teach the school's online system properly, once, and then treat it as something known. I do not know how to use it cannot stay true forever.
Sit down together and go through it: where assignments appear, how to see what is due, what to do when it will not load. Until that has happened,…
Sort the room out before you sort the willpower out. One agreed place to work, television off, phone in another room for the duration.
Attention here is pulled by whatever is brightest, and a phone face down on the table still wins. Taking the competition out of the room is far more…
There is more about focus, starting, and adhd than the practices: the focus, starting, and adhd area has the themes and the courses too.
A behaviour agreement needs six things in it: the goal, exactly what the child does, what they earn, what happens if they do not, signatures from everyone, and an adult who sticks to it.
Most of these fall apart over what was meant rather than over what was done, so write the specifics down to the level of what counts as finished. The…