Momentum — For Students Entering High School

A structured readiness program for students preparing to enter high school, and the families helping them get the start right.

High school is where the choices begin to compound. Grades start counting toward college. Course selection sets trajectories that are hard to change later. Social pressures intensify. The version of themselves a student becomes in 9th grade often becomes the version they spend the next four years either being or trying not to be.

Momentum is a focused readiness program that helps students walk into high school with intention — clear about who they are, what they're working toward, and how to handle the harder terrain ahead.

• Students entering 8th or 9th grade
• Strong students whose families want to be deliberate about how high school begins
• Students with mild executive function, attention, or anxiety challenges entering a more demanding environment
• Twice-exceptional students whose middle school supports may not transfer cleanly to high school
• Students for whom the social or identity pressures of high school feel like the bigger concern

Momentum is delivered as a structured five-meeting program, beginning with a standardized psychological assessment.

Initial Assessment — BASC-3. Before the first meeting, both the student and parents independently complete the BASC-3 — a standardized, norm-referenced behavioral assessment used by clinical psychologists. Results are scored and clinically interpreted before the first meeting.

Meeting 1 — Objective-setting (Student and Parents). A working meeting with the student and parents together to review the BASC-3 results, discuss the family's specific concerns and goals, and establish the focus for the work ahead.

Meetings 2, 3, and 4 — Working Sessions (Student). Three structured sessions with the student alone — building the executive function skills high school will demand, equipping emotional regulation and coping strategies, clarifying identity and goals, and preparing the teen for the academic and social terrain of the years ahead.

Meeting 5 — Family Integration. A closing 30–45 minute meeting with the parents and student together to present personalized recommendations, walk through what was accomplished, align on how the family will support the work going forward, and review a written summary the family takes home.

Format: In-person at our Coppell office or virtually 

Time commitment: BASC-3 plus five meetings, typically completed across 5–8 weeks 

Best timing: Spring or summer before the high school year begins 

Investment: $2250