Yellow Parachute 

Celebrates 25 Years

Your Journey to a Fulfilling Life

Yellow Parachute Learning Partners

Quantum JUMP

Celebrates 25 Years

Whether your student needs help developing reading strategies, taking notes in social studies, or your teaching or business team seeks training in neurodiversity and vision alignment, Yellow Parachute’s specialization in Executive Function and Leadership Skills transforms your ideas to actions.


Great Minds Don’t Think Alike… Like Parachutes, Great Minds Work Best OPEN.

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YELLOW PARACHUTE’S EVOLUTION

Cara Thorpe founded Yellow Parachute Learning Partners in 1999, during her second year as a classroom teacher. She leaned in to her creative strengths and entrepreneurial calling to help neurodiverse students discover learning on their own terms.

Cara’s mission to transform learning became even more personal with the discovery that each of her children have neurodiverse needs. And, as Cara collected her list of degrees, certificates, and certifications, she was able to obtain her own ADHD, anxiety, and depression diagnoses as a 2e learner.

Her family’s personal struggles influenced Cara’s brain-based and advocacy research to help students, parents, and teachers gain more information about little-known executive function skills. This research has culminated in YP’s proprietary Quantum Jump curriculum.

Yellow Parachute recruits talented teachers, coaches, social workers, psychologists, and relationship-builders to serve our clients in a variety of ways. The team meets regularly as a professional coaching group to refine our coaching practices.

From 1999-2024

 

Our Work + Experience

For 25 years, Yellow Parachute has offered supplementary tutoring and coaching services to help our clients fill educational gaps. Together, we have experienced:

  • The K-12+ Education System’s challenge to meet all learners’ needs.
  • Student’s frustration when they don’t fit the classroom mold.
  • Teachers’ requests for training to support their neurodiverse students with ADHD and Executive Function Skills Deficits.

What We’ve Learned:

Great minds DON’T think alike. Partnering with parents and educators has given us the chance to create environments where individuals:

  1. Feel seen, heard, accepted, and supported
  2. Contribute their unique perspectives, potential, and creativity
  3. Actively engage with clarity and purpose to build confidence and independence

Our Mission:

To positively impact schools, businesses, and communities across the United States through the coaching and training of Executive Function and Leadership Skills.

We work with clients in 4 categories:

  1. Students
  2. Parents
  3. Teachers + Education Leaders
  4. Business Leaders + Teams

We guide students, parents, teachers, and education + business leaders through an actionable, practical coaching framework, using Executive Function and Leadership Skills at the core.

Together, we want to shift learning and working environments across the US, embracing neurodiversity to open each mind to its own creative possibilities for success and fulfillment!

Great Minds Don't Think Alike

Coaching Neurodiversity Unlocks Creativity

EF Skills are Essential Skills

For School, Career, and Mental Health

Growth Mindset + Work Ethic

#1 For Career Success