Innovative Learning Services specializes in leveraging technology to strengthen executive function skills and develop critical academic and real-world skills: writing, reading comprehension, organizing, time and project management, task initiation and more.  Technology is less the "solution" than it is a key component of improved learning and organizational systems that help students get organized and show what they know, more effectively and efficiently than they could have imagined.  

Read about Innovative Learning Services' 4-Point Approach

Innovative Learning Services’ 4-Point Approach
The research of Drs. Thomas Brown, Adam Cox, Russell Barkely and others points to four core competencies that are impacted by weak executive function.
1. Self-regulation: Thinking and acting in a goal-directed manner
2. Time management: Getting out of the present
3. The procedure: learning new, more effective methods to accomplish tasks
4. Emotional regulation: using them to sustain, not derail, effort
Using this framework, Innovative Learning Services helps clients better understand their developing minds, while teaching them the ways in which better tools and strategies can improve a range of outcomes.

My name is Dan Leibowitz, founder of Innovative Learning Services and a certified teacher with advanced degrees in general and special education and a Certificate in Educational Therapy. I love what I do and with fifteen years of experience working with Bay Area students and people of all ages, I specialize in helping them identify and implement technology-oriented systems that:

  • Keep track of it all -plan and organize assignments, projects, schedules and materials 
  • Transfer thoughts to the computer with much greater ease and efficiency 
  • Improve written expression -organize and elaborate on ideas, apply conventions, develop fluency and variety
  • Apply structured, consistent approaches that help initiate and sustain the effort
  • Prioritize -identify what's most pressing, when it's due and methods for getting it done
  • Build computer, Internet safety and information literacy skills 
  • Advocate for themselves by communicating with teachers and others in supportive roles

In this website you will find further information about my techniques, successes, workshops and how I support individuals of all ages in working through challenging tasks to the best of their abilities. 

News and Information

Thank you to those students and families who participated in this year's Diary of a More Organized Kid.  See you next summer! 

Upcoming presentations: Mill Valley and Sterne School Parent Groups! 

Learn more about Raising Capable Kids: A Workshop for School Communities

As featured in Education Week

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Testimonials

" After 3rd grade (our son) hated school and was struggling. Dan's initial goal was to help catch up much of the 3rd grade material. As the demands of school increased, Dan continued to assist him with study habits, effective writing, and SSAT preparation. Dan was a constant support during social and academic ups and downs. A happy ending to the story - our son developed confidence in his academic abilities, achieved top grades and was admitted to his first choice high school.
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-V. J., San Francisco