ACADEMIC COACHING FOR ALL

What is Academic Coaching?

It’s Empowering students to reclaim confidence, independence, and engagement in their learning through 1:1 academic coaching, realizing their full potential.

Serving middle school, high school and college students virtually and in person.

If your student is…

  • Looking for more then a “study coach”

  • Frustrated because their effort is disproportionate to their results

  • Overwhelmed, disengaged, and discouraged

  • Struggling to harness their full academic potential

Then Calibrate may be right for them!

Calibrate Academic Coaching…

  • Collaborates with student to identify sources of frustration & areas of growth.

  • Offers tools and strategies to solidify strong work/study habits & deepen understanding.

  • Guides and instructs students in utilizing & internalizing effective Executive Functioning tools and study strategies.

WHAT IS ACADEMIC COACHING?

Academic Coaching focuses on all of the strategies, habits and routines that provide the foundation for students to be successfully independent across ALL of their academic work. 

HOW IS ACADEMIC COACHING DIFFERENT FROM TUTORING?

Academic coaching utilizes strategies grounded in neuroscience to cultivate powerful learning, leveraging a student’s full potential in ALL academic coursework.

Tutoring is subject specific, supporting student learning via assignment assistance and the reteaching of subject specific content.

WHAT MAKES CALIBRATE ACADEMIC COACHING UNIQUE?

Calibrate Academic Coaching’s two prong approach incorporates executive functioning (EF) skill development as well as academic coaching strategies for powerful learning in order to leverage and optimize a student’s full potential. 

MEG CHAMBERLIN

CALIBRATE COACHING FOUNDER • EDUCATOR OF 20+ YEARS • ACADEMIC INTERVENTIONIST OF 10+ YEARS

My name is Meg Chamberlin, and I’m ready to help you get started on your academic coaching journey! I am passionate about education and firmly believe that every student is capable, every student can achieve. As an Academic Coach with 20+ years in education, I guide students in recapturing their agency, engagement, and enjoyment in their learning, ultimately optimizing their innate potential and achieving academic success.

Visit the “About” page to learn more about my qualifications and experience.

I’m looking forward to working with you!

  • “Even after a full day at school and an afterschool activity my son joyfully then attends a tutoring session with Meg. His confidence and independence increase with each session. Their work together tailoring a time blocked schedule lifted away stress and paved the way for important academic learning. Meg has helped him reframe his perceptions and overcome obstacles which has resulted in allowing his strengths to shine and make his challenges manageable.”

    Middle School Parent

  • “Meg's ability to connect with kids and understand the nuances of their struggles is an absolute gift. She has years of teaching and mentoring experience that support her ability to break down assignments, tasks, and learning goals. She is a gem!”

    Colleague

  • “You seek to deeply know students - their strengths, weaknesses, personalities and quirks - to design a support strategy that works for them individually. I have always been impressed with your knowledge of students as writers and thinkers, and I have gained so much as a classroom teacher from learning your perspective about individual students. You often see something I have missed."

    Colleague

  • "As a veteran teacher, I had the opportunity to work with Meg over the past six years at Summit Middle School. Meg has to be one of the most dedicated, creative, caring, and competent educators I know. She has always provided tremendous support using a fully collaborative approach to address the unique needs of our most challenging students. Families and students will be lucky to work with and greatly benefit from Meg’s coaching! "

    Jennifer Perlick, Summit Middle School Social Studies Teacher

  • "It is hard to overstate the number of accolades Meg has earned in her work with young people. She is an outstanding educator who cares deeply for the academic success of students, as well as their well-being and social emotional wellness. She brings grace, kindness, and warmth to that expertise and makes students feel safe and supported as they push themselves to achieve. Her understanding of a young person's mind allows her to guide students to develop organizational, interpersonal, and academic skills. Meg has had a profound impact on the students with whom she has worked and will continue to do so. "

    Colleague

  • "Meg's creative and engaging strategies helped me score a 5 on my APUSH exam- something I never thought possible for myself. Her unwaivering support for her students and dedication to calibrating and individualizing work strategies is truly one in a million."

    Student

  • "I've had the honor and privilege of watching Meg work with students over the last three years at the middle school where we collaborated on a daily basis. I believe her toolbelt of interventions and capacity to truly see students come from her decades of classroom teaching. Meg sees the potential capacity in students, not just the deficits, and believes in all of our students as budding success stories. After working with Meg and armed with their newly developed belief in themselves, students participate more in their work, in classroom conversations, in projects with classmates and partners, and ultimately achieve academic success."

    Meredith Changeux

  • "I credit Meg's persistence in assisting my own child develop his writing style, skillset and confidence over his three years in middle school. She had patience (and humor) for him as he gradually progressed, and she provided suggestions and feedback centered around his strengths and curiosities. He trusted her and sought her out when he needed help. He knew she'd coach him through while requiring him to produce thoughtfully crafted responses."

    Middle School Parent

  • “Working with Meg was my best decision during my high school career and throughout college. She helped me build the strategies necessary not only to be successful, but her ultra-personal approach helped me decide the path I wanted to take and the career I wanted to choose. Through working with Meg, I became a more organized student and created positive habits, such as planning, taking timed breaks, and understanding what environment is best for my learning. But above all else Meg helped me unearth my full potential–before working with her I struggled in school and was never attentive to my grades or work. Meg showed me that with the right tools in place, I could not only succeed in school but succeed long after the bell rang. She is always someone I will come back to for advice, help, and coaching!”

    Matthew E., former coaching student

  • "Ms. Chamberlin, Thank you for always making me laugh and for helping me grow into the person that I am. You have challenged me and have truly made a difference in my life...Thank you for everything!"

    Former Summit student

  • "Dear Ms. Chamberlin, Where to start. I don't think you will ever understand my feelings of gratitude for what you've done for me this year. I have never had a teacher who cares as much as you do towards wanting me to succeed and not just the letter grade. Every day I get excited to come into your class and learn because I know I will not be judged, and I can truly work hard and do my best work. You have shown me that even when it isn't easy I should never give up. You showed me my dreams are actually achievable even when it's hard and for that I will forever be thankful."

    Former Summit student

CALIBRATE WELCOMES ALL RACES, RELIGIONS, COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN, GENDERS, ABILITIES, SEXUAL ORIENTATIONS, AND EVERYTHING THAT MAKES YOU, YOU!