Weeks 1–4
Discover
Build trust and understand strengths, exceptionalities, learning preferences, present school demands, academic gaps and executive-function barriers. Agree on one primary goal and a starting point.
LEX Academy · The IGNITE Method
IGNITE
Collaborative
Parent + Student + Coach. One goal. Four months to build a better way forward.
We work on what your child needs to accomplish now while changing how they approach learning for what comes next. Current schoolwork becomes the setting for academic support, executive-function coaching and strategies designed around the learner.
THE COLLABORATIVE PARTNERSHIP
Student↔Coach↔Parent
Understand → Build → Practice → Transfer
Real schoolwork · Individualized strategies · Shared learningA focused partnership
Schoolwork is where we begin. Greater ownership is where we are headed.
Some students understand the material but struggle to start, organize, sustain or finish their work. Others face an academic gap alongside an executive-function barrier. Collaborative looks at both, then uses the learner’s real assignments and immediate goals to practice a better approach.
We learn who the student is before choosing tools. Their strengths, interests, exceptionalities, processing preferences and relationship with learning shape the plan. The family and coach set one meaningful short-term goal together and revisit it throughout the cycle.
The 16-week journey
Four months, with a purpose for each phase.
Weeks 5–8
Build
Work with current assignments while introducing academic strategies, external supports and practical routines. Help the parent understand which supports help and why.
Weeks 9–12
Shift
Test strategies across real work, adjust what is not transferring and invite the student to take more of the lead. Coach and parent change their prompts as skills grow.
Weeks 13–16
Transfer
Review progress toward the original goal, strengthen usable routines, fade supports where appropriate and leave with a clear next-step plan.
Progress is measured against the family’s defined goal. The pace and level of independence will differ for each learner.
Why collaborative?
Everyone brings knowledge to the table.
The student learns to recognize their learning process, practice academic and executive-function skills, and take increasing ownership.
The parent shares what happens outside sessions and learns when to prompt, how to support and when a structure may be ready to change.
The coach listens, observes, teaches, models and adjusts the approach with the student and parent. Information moves in every direction.
Work in the present
Bring the essay. Bring the unfinished project.
Real schoolwork gives us the opportunity to practice planning, starting, organizing, drafting, checking and finishing where those skills are needed. When a specific academic gap is holding up current work, we address it as part of the goal.
The aim is a more usable learning system for this student and family, supported by strategies they can keep applying beyond a single assignment.
Possible starting goals
What might we work on?
Starting and finishing writingHomework routines with less conflictPlanning longer assignmentsManaging missing workStudy and organization habitsPreparing for new school expectations
Your learner’s goal is chosen together; these are examples, not a fixed curriculum.
Begin with a conversation
Let’s identify the goal that matters now.
IGNITE Collaborative is a four-month commitment shaped around one defined goal, student coaching and academic support, parent collaboration, progress review and a next-step plan. We’ll discuss fit, schedule, availability and pricing during consultation.