Planning & Prioritization
Break big assignments into steps, put them on a calendar, and decide what comes first.
Outlook Calendar
Clinically Informed Academics®
The skills to learn, the tools to do.
AW Learners builds executive-functioning skills in K–12 students — planning, organization, focus, follow-through — using the same Microsoft 365 tools they'll carry into college and career.
A program of Academics West · Brooklyn, NY
What we do
Clinically Informed Academics,® in practice.
AW Learners is where executive functioning becomes a daily habit. Many bright students stumble not on the content, but on the doing — remembering the assignment, starting it, keeping materials in one place, managing time.
Our clinically informed approach names those skills explicitly and teaches them through real tools. Students don't just hear "get organized" — they build a system in OneDrive, capture their thinking in OneNote, and run their day from Outlook and To Do. The strategy and the software are taught together, so the skill sticks.
It's the same digital fluency employers expect — learned early, and learned with support.
When a student can plan the week, find their work, and start without a battle, everything else in school gets easier.
— The AW Learners approach to executive functioning
Executive functioning
Six skills, six tools that build them.
Each core executive-functioning domain is paired with a Microsoft 365 tool students use to practice it — so an abstract skill becomes a concrete, repeatable routine.
Organization
One home for every file, named and foldered — nothing lost, nothing "on the other laptop."
OneDriveWorking Memory & Note-taking
Capture instructions and ideas the moment they land, in notebooks organized by class.
OneNoteTask Initiation & Follow-through
A clear next action and a checkable list turn "I'll do it later" into "it's done."
Microsoft To DoCommunication & Collaboration
Ask for help, share work, and join class conversations with a professional voice.
Teams & OutlookSelf-monitoring & Review
Draft, revise, and check work — using version history to see growth over time.
Word · Excel · PowerPoint
The toolkit
Real software, real accounts, from day one.
Every student receives a full Microsoft 365 account on the awlearners.org domain — the professional-grade suite, set up with the supports they need to use it well.
Outlook Email
A real @awlearners.org address, with calendar and reminders built in.
OneDrive
1 TB of cloud storage — every file safe, synced, and shareable.
OneNote
Digital binders for every class — typed, drawn, or dictated.
Teams
Class channels, assignments, and a place to ask for help.
Word · Excel · PowerPoint
The full desktop and web apps for writing, data, and presenting.
Copilot Chat
An AI study partner with enterprise-grade data protection.
Part of
Academics West
An independent, high-support college preparatory school helping K–12 students with emotional and learning differences blossom into productive, self-valuing leaders.
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Built by the people who know your student.
AW Learners isn't a bolt-on app. It's the digital backbone of the Academics West approach — the same clinically informed philosophy, delivered through the tools students use every day.
K–12Every grade supported
1:1Tools per student
BrooklynCampus coming soon