TPP 300: Executive Function Coach Seth Perler on What Is / Isn't Working in School
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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The thing that I like to say a lot of times is go for the sea. And what I mean by that is, unfortunately, we have this system where you jump through certain hoops and then you're evaluated on those things. Did you complete the homework? Were the answers the right answers? Did you do the essay? Was it turned in on time? You know, there are these things. And a lot of their resistance often has to do with that. They don't know where to start. It's very emotionally overwhelming. It just feels big, whatever the homework is or the assignment is. But the go for the C is just an example of one way of what I'm really talking about, which is how to alleviate some of the pressure.
Welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Reber, and I have got a great episode with my friend, executive function coach, and frequent guest of the pod, Seth Perler. And I wanted to have a frank and honest conversation with Seth about what is and what is not working in schools right now, especially as we are once again in that back to school season. And of course, there have been many changes in education since the start of COVID, including the inclusion of technology and almost every aspect of learning and the increased testing that students are being subjected to since returning to campus.
And we also know that neurodivergent kids tend to be impacted by these changes more than other students. So what can we do as parents? Where should we be putting our energies? That's what Seth and I get into in this episode. And I also crowdsourced questions from the Tilt community before talking with Seth. And I promise you, I got through as many of those topics as I could, including how to help kids with ADHD who are pretty much checked out of their school day, navigating that dance of technology and distraction, dealing with school refusal, and much, much more. And if this is your first time hearing from Seth, here's a little bit more about his work. Seth is an executive function coach and consultant with extensive experience addressing extraordinarily diverse learning needs.
He was a teacher for 12 years working with a diverse range of gifted and twice exceptional or 2E students in charter schools for eight years and teaching students with ADHD, dyslexia, and other executive function challenges. He has been an executive function coach for middle, high school, and college students since 2010. And again, I have had Seth on the show a bunch before, and you can find links to those episodes. They are all worth a listen on the show notes page for this episode, which you can find at tiltparenting.com slash session 300. Okay, and now let's get to my actual conversation with Seth about all things school. Well, hello there, Seth. Welcome back to the podcast.
Hey, Debbie Reber. So good to be here. I'm excited to chat with you today.
It's been a while too, I'm just realizing, since you've been on the show. And listeners, I'll just say again, please go back and listen to the episodes that Seth and I have already done together, because we have done some very deep dives into executive function, into resistance, did a great conversation between Seth and Asher about resistance. So there's a lot there. But for this conversation, we want to talk about school, what is and isn't working for school, and we'll kind of see where it goes. But as a way to get started, Yeah. even in school and i'll just say for listeners we're recording this as we're wrapping up the 21 22 school year this will be released leading into the 22 23 school year so i'd love to know what's on your mind right now with regards to school specifically and what's happening for our kids
Yeah, I don't have a list in front of me or anything. So just and I know that we have a lot of questions go through. So but some of the things that concern me are not things that just concern me lately. And some of them concern me lately. So I'll start and I'll be real brief, but I'll start at the beginning.
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