David Kucher
EF & Learning Coach / Head of Technology
With over fifteen years of special education classroom experience, advanced degrees in education and writing, as well as current certificates in ADHD Coaching, Executive Functions Coaching, Critical Friends Groups, and Design Thinking, David works with students and families to understand brain development, embrace learning strengths and challenges, and make a scaffolding plan.
- Rutgers University - BA - English; Education
- Montclair State University - MA - English Education
- For fifteen years, David worked as a middle and high school learning resources teacher and administrator at both New Canaan Country School and Greenwich Country Day School.
- David has been working as a Learning Coach / Executive Functions Coach at Sasco River Center since 2010.
- The overall goal of all-learning coaching: student self-awareness, process experimentation, and ultimate independence.
- My work with a student always starts with the question, “What currently works?” The next step is to identify what doesn’t work. Experimentation then informs our work together. “How do you study for vocabulary tests?” “How do you approach a math assessment?” “When you read, how do you take notes? Retain information?” The answers to each question helps me work with the student to examine the process.
- Each meeting with the student contains an hour of: revisit what we know works; revisit current assignments (and what executive function skills you need to complete these assignments); identify curriculum that needs to be completed; get the work done; reflect on the process.
David also works with adults and teenagers as a "CrossFit Coach" to improve their physical and mental well being at his Norwalk gym, Tower Fitness.