NEW FRONTIERS' BLOG SERIES

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The Importance of Continuous Professional Development

In today’s fast-paced world, the landscape of many professions is evolving at an unprecedented rate. Adapting, growing, and staying ahead means

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What Is Stimming?

If you are the parent of a neurodivergent child or teen, then you may have noticed them making repetitive sounds or motions. This behavior, called

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Work-Life Balance: Tips for Busy Professionals

In today’s fast-paced world, striking the perfect work-life balance is more challenging than ever. For many professionals, the lines between

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Social Media Hygiene: Navigating the Digital Age Responsibly

In an age where the boundaries between our online and offline worlds often blur, understanding the concept of ‘Social Media

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Building Professional Networks: A Comprehensive Guide

In the realm of professional growth, the age-old adage, “It’s not just what you know, but who you know,” still rings true. Building

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How to Improve Executive Functions For Kids

Executive function is a term that refers to the skills and discipline that aid people in starting and completing tasks. Having good executive

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Time Management Strategies for Busy Students

In the hustle and bustle of student life, juggling academic assignments, extracurricular activities, and personal commitments can seem overwhelming.

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Leadership Skills for Emerging Managers

As the corporate landscape evolves, the role of a manager is no longer just about overseeing a team; it’s about leading with vision,

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Helping Neurodiverse Kids Navigate the Start of the School Year

The first day of school can be exciting and nerve-wracking in equal measure for students. This may be especially true for students who are

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Building Strong Relationships with Teachers and Professors: The Foundation for Academic Success

In the realm of academic achievement, the influence of textbooks, lectures, and study hours cannot be denied. However, often overlooked is the potent

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A Guide to Securing a Life Coach

Life can throw a lot of obstacles in your path, whether it be a stressful event, tiredness, or even something like a lack of foundational

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Mastering Motivation: Understanding, Losing, and Reigniting the Drive

Ever wondered why we jump out of bed some days, ready to conquer the world, and other times, the snooze button is our best friend? That’s

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Unlocking Personal Growth: Developing Emotional Intelligence in High School and College Students

In today’s fast-paced academic landscape, students are often faced with challenges that go beyond textbooks and tests. While cognitive

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Building Stronger Teams: Enhancing Dynamics in the Modern Workplace

In the intricate tapestry of the corporate world, teams are the threads that weave success stories. A harmonious team can drive innovation, boost

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Is Physical Activity Good for Kids’ Executive Function Support?

It’s no secret that physical activity benefits kids’ health. Staying active improves cardiovascular health, strengthens bones, and

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Building Success: How to Establish Healthy Habits to Prepare for the New Academic Year

The beginning of a new academic year is both exciting and challenging. For students, it’s a fresh start, but it can also bring anxiety about

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How to Conduct Meaningful Meetings in a Neurodiverse Workplace

As more employers become aware of neurodiversity, the importance of inclusive meeting practices has come to the forefront. Inclusivity can be the

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Unlock Success: Executive Function Tips for Middle and High School Students for the New Academic Year

The new school year is a perfect opportunity for middle and high school students to strengthen their executive functions. Enhancing these critical

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The Management Evolution: Moving from Supervisory to Coaching Models – A New Frontier in Leadership

In the competitive business landscape, progressive companies like New Frontiers are embracing a shift from supervisory to coaching model of

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A Guide for Parents: Supporting Your Child’s Transition to College

The transition to college is often viewed as a major milestone for students, a turning point where they leave the nest and begin to navigate the

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How to Plan and Prioritize Work Tasks

Staying organized at work is often touted as a key to success. When you’re on top of that to-do list and meeting deadlines, you’re more likely to

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10 Essential Tips for a Smooth Transition to College Life

Stepping into college represents a thrilling and life-changing phase. This journey teems with opportunities for personal and academic development.

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4 First-Time Interview Tips for Young Adults

For many young adults, applying to jobs for the first time is like navigating unfamiliar waters. It can feel like everything is new and unexpected.

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How Managers Can Motivate Their Employees

Successfully managing a business involves much more than simply recruiting top talent. The number of skilled workers you can draw to your institution

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How to Give Effective Feedback in the Workplace

Thoughtful feedback in the workplace is an essential part of any employee’s development. By learning what areas they’re excelling

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Time Management for Teens & Tweens

Between school and extracurricular activities, homework, and time with family and friends, it can seem like teens and tweens may have precisely

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A Guide to Conflict Resolution for Managers

Many people who are new to management roles find themselves managing conflict in the workplace only to realize that they don’t have training or

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Why Summer Schedules Are Important for Kids

With summer vacation on the horizon, kids of all ages are getting ready to enjoy some time away from school. Parents, on the other hand, might be

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How to Create Healthy Boundaries at Work

Learning to set boundaries with coworkers and management is key to professional success. Work boundaries help employees maintain a healthy work-life

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How Parents Can Help Kids & Teens with Goal Setting

Goals are a great way to feel a sense of momentum and accomplishment, whether you’re completing a specific project or mastering a new skill.

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How Team Leaders Can Help Improve Their Employees’ Time Management Skills

Thorough and intentional time management is a cornerstone of workplace productivity. However, even with the technology and tools available to

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Finding the Right Tech Tools to Support Students’ Executive Functions

When children and teens struggle with executive function, whether because of ADHD or autism, the impact can be felt in their schoolwork,

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What Business Leaders Should Know About Employee Empowerment

As research continues to reveal higher rates of success and better financial outcomes in workplaces practicing employee empowerment, many

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What Does ADHD Look Like in Girls?

Receiving an ADHD diagnosis can be life-changing for a child or teen—and their parents. Understanding why they may have difficulty paying attention

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What Is Rejection Sensitivity?

While we all face rejection from time to time, everyone responds to it differently. It’s common for people’s feelings to be hurt in the

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Understanding Neurodiversity

The past few years have brought attention to the neurodiversity movement. While this discussion may sound new, it’s been happening

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Is It ADHD or ASD? Understanding the Differences

Everyone develops at their own pace, but there are key benchmarks and behaviors that fall along a predictable timeline. Having difficulties with

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Boosting Workplace Performance Through Coaching

As an employer or manager, you want your employees to perform at their best and achieve the goals you’ve set for them. However,

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ADHD vs. Executive Function Disorder: How to Tell Them Apart

As awareness of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) grows, talk about executive functions and executive function disorder (EFD) is also

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Understanding ADHD in Adults

Conversations about ADHD often focus on how it affects children and young adults while they’re in school. However, ADHD also affects a

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Tips for Becoming Independent in Adulthood

Becoming an independent adult is an exciting and challenging process. It’s a time when you begin to take ownership of your life and make

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How does coaching work with NVLD clients?

Coaching flexes and adapts to the client’s needs. In order to understand how we coach clients diagnosed with NVLD, it is important to

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What is Self-Advocacy?

Speaking up for your wants and needs Self-advocacy is defined as the, “ability to assertively state wants, needs and rights, determine and

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Lazy or Executive Function Challenges?

How Executive Function challenges can appear as laziness “I’m just lazy,” is something we hear so often in our work. It’s very easy to

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Achieve Goals: Owning Wants and Struggles

How honesty can revolutionize your sense of self and growth With many of our clients, we see that many people struggle with being honest. It

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Cognitive Shifting from a Summer Mindset

There’s just something about summer, it almost feels like a mindset. Going swimming, barbequing, long days of sunlight. Schools out for most

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What are executive functions, and what is executive function coaching?

What are executive functions? Executive functions are a set of cognitive skills and abilities that help people set goals, strategize to achieve

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Work From Home: Neurodiverse Challenges

Work from home is a part of our lives now. Many jobs offer either a fully remote, or hybrid model of work that provides unique challenges for those

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Developing The Skills for Independent Living

When does one able to master independent living? What does it look like? How does one achieve it? These are questions that both young adults and

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Social Awareness: Reading of the Room

Connections and Context: Supporting the Reading of the Room When we think about strategies that enable us to successfully move through life, we tend

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What is Nonverbal Learning Disability (NVLD)?

Nonverbal Learning Disability (NVLD) is defined by struggles in visual-spatial abilities, with limited to no struggles in verbal abilities. Struggles

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Adulting: Why Isn’t My 18-Year-Old There Yet?

Have you ever heard the phrase, “Not at grade level,” or “they are young for their age?” These terms help us focus on how our society is

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A New Year’s Resolution – Self-Understanding

With every new year, there are tons of blogs written about best practices for setting New Year’s resolutions. In fact, we wrote one last year too!

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Cognitive Modeling During Holidays

As educators and coaches, we always are looking for learning and growth opportunities. The holidays are a great time to create concrete learning

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Middle School: Developing Independence

Developing independence takes time, and it is important to start this process early on. Middle school is a great opportunity for parents to shift

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Creativity: Time Management Strategies

You may not be able to control time, but you can control how you work within time. When professionals discuss creativity, they tend to focus on

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What’s Diagnoses got to do with it?

Diagnoses come up in our work all the time. I was working with a client once who was struggling to complete tasks independently. When we worked

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Self-Monitoring Scales: Foundations for Change

Big Idea: Self-monitoring scales can help us better identify goals, track progress towards goals, and be objective about our journey towards goals.

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RISE Part 4: Evaluating Effectiveness

This is part of a blog series on our problem-solving paradigm RISE. Check out the earlier blogs in the series if you missed them! Executive Function

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RISE Part 3: Strategy Implementation

This is part of a blog series on our problem-solving paradigm RISE. Stay tuned for the final part of the series. Executive Function skills are

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RISE Part 2: Identify Strategies (or Solutions)

This is part of a blog series on our problem-solving paradigm RISE. Stay tuned for the rest of the series. Executive Function skills are cognitive

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RISE Blog Series – Part 1: Recognize Problems – The First Step to Problem Solving

This is part of a blog series on our problem-solving paradigm RISE. Stay tuned for the rest of the series. Executive Function skills are cognitive

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From College to the Adulthood – Tips for a Smooth Transition

Previewing Transitions Transitions are important part of our lives, and learning to navigate them (at any life stage) is an important skillset.

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Tutoring vs. Coaching – The difference between teaching content and strategies

Is tutoring the right solution to my problem? Imagine this: You are struggling in your math class. You are a bright individual, quick on the uptake,

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How can we ACTUALLY follow through with our New Year’s Resolutions?

We always get excited about a new year because everyone is thinking about setting resolutions. New Frontiers loves resolutions because that is the

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How will the Fall Unfold? [COVID Lockdown]

As we turn the corner of summer, there are still many unanswered questions about what the school experience will look like for everyone this fall.

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The Transition Back to School after Summer Break [COVID]

Concerns about School Starting Many parents are concerned about what the transition back to school will look like this fall. Traditional summer break

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Why Are Transitions So Difficult?

“When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.” –Chinese Proverb Everyone has the potential to struggle in

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Strategizing Holiday Gatherings in 2020 – What is the New Normal for Socializing?

Samantha Curiale-Feinman, MS.Ed., TSHH, Director Holiday Social Strategies Independence Day has traditionally been a holiday where people get

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Making a Smooth Transition from High School to College

Samantha Curiale-Feinman, MS.Ed., TSHH, Director Casey Schmalacker, Operations Manager Transitions Change is not easy for many of us. We tend to like

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How to Make This Summer Count

Samantha Curiale-Feinman, MS.Ed., TSHH, Director Summertime Structure! Summertime has traditionally provided children with the opportunity to wind

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Reclaiming and Sustaining Motivation

Samantha Curiale-Feinman, MS.Ed., TSHH, Director Motivation is essential for individual growth. When people set goals for themselves, it is our

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Recognizing Stress and Managing its Effects

Samantha Curiale-Feinman, MS.Ed., TSHH, Director Stress in our “New Normal” It is safe to assume that most of us understand our world has

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Online Learning FAQs

Samantha Curiale-Feinman, Director, answers some of the most frequently asked questions about online learning. What do you see as the biggest

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Social Distancing vs. Physical Distancing? Why The Words We Use Matter

Samantha Feinman, Director, New Frontiers Executive Function Coaching Kene Erike, Coach, New Frontiers Executive Function Coaching Humans are social