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The Story

Every fall, millions of students arrive at high school expected to manage six classes, a planner, long-term projects, and their own time. Almost none of them were taught how. The skills that make high school work, planning, organization, time management, and follow-through, are assumed, not taught. Students who figure them out do fine. Students who do not get labeled as unmotivated, lazy, or behind. One parent spent two years in the cognitive science research and built the structured program that should have already existed. This book is the missing manual for the transition nobody prepares kids for.

About the Book

Field Guide to High School is a structured, 8-week executive function program for students ages 11 to 14. It teaches the planning, time management, prioritization, and follow-through skills that high school demands from the first week but never explicitly teaches. The program is grounded in cognitive science research and written directly to the student, day by day, with a companion volume for parents and educators. Both books are in production at Dotted Eye Press.

About the Author

Greg Wilson spent twenty years in enterprise software building organizational systems and process frameworks for engineering and product teams. He stepped away in 2021, watched his own kid approach the transition to high school, and found no structured program built on the research. He spent two years in the cognitive science literature and built it himself. He is not a researcher or clinician. He is the parent who built the program.