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The Academic Coaching Podcast
Are you an educator deeply invested in helping neurodivergent, anxious, or struggling learners? Get ready for a deep dive into study skills and executive function strategies — teaching students how not to bore their own brains, in learning and life. Think: science of learning and executive function strategies, guest experts, and real talk about the craft of coaching. With a side of business advice for the self-employed coach. Come, dig in, and learn!
The Academic Coaching Podcast
Latest Episodes
How Do You Find Your Style as an Academic Coach? | Nancy Minolli
In this episode, Gretchen talks with longtime Anti-Boring Learning Lab member Nancy Minolli about what it actually looks like to grow into your own style as an academic coach. Nancy started coaching in 2018 with one client, a teaching backgroun...
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Are Your Students Thinking—or Just Complying? | Ashley Doty
What if a student looks completely engaged—taking notes, following directions, doing exactly what the teacher asked—but isn't actually doing much thinking?In this episode, I talk with Ashley Doty, founder of Uncomplicate Ed, about the di...
Should Students Know Their Own Diagnoses? | Liz Angoff
What happens when a student’s diagnosis could help them understand themselves—but the adults around them aren’t ready for them to know?In this episode, I talk with educational psychologist Dr. Liz Angoff about helping students become aut...
How Did She Grow Her EF Coaching Biz THIS Fast?! | Jordyn Shapiro
In this episode, Gretchen talks with Jordyn Shapiro, founder of Just Start LA, about what it looks like to build an executive function coaching business remarkably fast. Jordyn filled her own coaching caseload in just three months, opened a 2,4...
A New Tutor Interviews ME on My Own Podcast | Alondra Padilla
In this episode, the tables get turned: new tutor Alondra Padilla comes prepared to interview Gretchen about how she found her way from teaching to academic coaching to founding the Anti-Boring Learning Lab—but pretty quickly, Gretchen starts a...