NPR – Karen Brown
“If you’ve ever gotten a glimpse inside a high schooler’s backpack or locker, you know organization doesn’t always come naturally to teens. Being scatterbrained in school can make make it tough to stay focused and do well. That was the case when Lilli Stordeur was about halfway through her freshman year of high school in Northampton, Mass. She felt totally overwhelmed. “I was being tutored for the classes I was having trouble in,” she says, “but I would be having a hard time organizing my binders, and notebooks and stuff, and knowing when to hand things in.” To help Lilli get stuff done, her parents hired Melissa Power-Greene, a former tutor and special-education teacher, to work with Lilli on something called executive function.”(more)