Does parenting feel like it’s above your pay grade lately?

You’re definitely not alone!

Students aren't the only ones who need support. In this world where we are raising the first generation of digital natives, and there are more opportunities to feel disconnected than to feel connected, Classroom Matters is offering a space for parents and caregivers to get the help they need to foster compassion and patience in their parenting journeys. Here are some of the areas they cover in coaching sessions:

  • Reframing how you think about what drives your child's behavior

  • Cultivating compassion for, patience for, and acceptance of the child you have instead of yearning for the child you think you want

  • Learning the language and lens of meeting your child where they are

  • Identifying tools and strategies to use at home to scaffold executive function skills

  • Co-regulating instead of co-escalating

  • Setting realistic and developmentally appropriate expectations and non-negotiables

  • Devoting unadulterated time to connecting with your kid

  • Connecting before you correct and separating moments of connection from moments of correction/compliance

  • Regularly modeling executive function skills at home

  • Helping you identify your own EF strengths and weaknesses

additional support:

  • Identifying tools and strategies to effectively parent your neurodivergent child

  • Learning the nitty-gritty details of ADHD, ASD (and other learning differences), how it shows up for your kid, and how it impacts relationships and learning. (Tangentially, you may need to embark on a discovery of your own ADHD and its impacts.)

  • Learning and understanding terms like PDA, RSD, and other ADHD characteristics. 

  • Reframing your thinking about ADHD and coming from a strengths-based perspective.

Schedule a free consult with lisa or tatiana here to talk about how parent coaching might benefit your family.

 

Your parent coaching team

Lisa Miller | Co-Director

Lisa was an English and French teacher for six years at Berkeley High School. She received her BA in French Literature, with a minor in English, from the University of California at San Diego and spent her junior year in France studying at the Sorbonne. She is very interested in French language and culture and loves to travel. After college, Lisa spent several years working for an SAT preparation program and is well-versed in test-taking techniques. In addition to content-area support, Lisa coaches neurodivergent people of all ages, helping them build executive function skills, do life, and realize personal, professional, and academic goals. 

Since 2000, Lisa has played a major role in developing Classroom Matters’ philosophy and holistic approach to tutoring and mentoring. She designs executive function curriculum for Classroom Matters, travels to Bay Area schools offering workshops and staff training, and regularly appears as a guest speaker at educational events. Currently, as Director of Classroom Matters, Lisa draws on her experience as an educator and trainer to create an environment where every student can discover their own love of learning, both in and out of the classroom. In addition to training tutors at Classroom Matters, she has worked as a new teacher coach and mentor for Oakland Unified School District. In 2012, Lisa established AccessEd Foundation, a non-profit organization whose mission is to close the access gap for academic support services.

 

tatiana guerreiro ramos | Co-Director

As Co-Director of Classroom Matters, Tatiana works alongside Lisa Miller as an educational advocate and consultant. She also works with Bay Area schools to offer customized professional development to teachers and administrators to help them better support all students, especially those with learning differences. Tatiana also works closely with families to help them access support and services for their students at school through the 504 plan and IEP processes. Since 2012, Tatiana has worked with Lisa to develop Classroom Matters’ executive function and test-prep curricula and to grow the parent-focused side of the business, which provides coaching and consulting to families navigating learning differences. Additionally, Tatiana regularly appears as a guest speaker at conferences and on panels as an educator with deep expertise in ADHD, ASD, and other learning differences, and how they show up at home and at school. Her personal experience with ADHD informs Tatiana’s honest and compassionate approach to student and parent coaching. A polyglot (English, Portuguese, French, and Spanish) and a three-time National Memory Champion (the only woman to win the US Memoriad in its 25-year history), Tatiana enjoys crosswords, the New York Times Bee, keeping up with the news from her home country of Brazil, writing, and, most of all, spending time with her family.

 

trina rymland | senior parent coach

As a new member of the Classroom Matters team, Trina has over 30 years of experience working with families to find the best educational solutions for their children. As a Montessori Educator, she worked with students and families from preschool to middle school. After transitioning out of the classroom she became a certified parenting coach through the Jai Institute for Parenting. She founded Parenting on Purpose to help parents create connection through communication and build confidence as parents. The most important job Trina has had is being a mom to her two, grown children. Through personal and professional experience, Trina has had experience working with folks from all walks of life: those on the LGBTQIA+ spectrum, POC, and a multitude of people with different learning styles and challenges.

When she’s not reading a book on attachment or gentle discipline, Trina likes walking her dog, singing karaoke, or, most importantly, spending time with family.