Meet some of our coaches
Experienced educators who know how to sit down with a teen and turn a stuck moment into a workable plan.
RESET coaches are teachers and school leaders with a real track record of helping teens. They are unusually kind and patient, and they like getting into the details. Here are a few of the people your teen may work with.
The people your teen may work with
Laura Mahajan
Laura brings 23 years in education, along with a history degree from Princeton and a master’s from Columbia’s Teachers College. She learned executive function in the daily work of the classroom, where hundreds of papers and links can move in and out each day. With RESET students, she gets into the specifics and helps make their goals easier to reach.
Austin Moore
Austin spent eight years teaching high school chemistry and has also worked in youth programming and education research. He likes to build systems with students. The work is hands-on, collaborative, and often fun. He digs into the details so teens can feel more capable and confident.
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Brian Hyosaka
Brian has spent 15 years teaching and leading schools, from a bilingual fifth-grade classroom to founding a middle school built around real-world learning. A lifelong athlete and coach, he enjoys the unglamorous work: deciding what comes first when everything feels urgent and breaking big projects into manageable steps. He asks a lot of questions and helps each student build systems that fit how their brain works.
Lauren Adams
Lauren taught high school English for 18 years and completed graduate coursework at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She believes organization can be learned like any other subject, and built an academic-skills class at her school around that idea. With RESET, she brings that same work to students one at a time.