My DD10 took a quantum leap in EF 18mos ago due to necessity and internal drive. Given the grade skip we'd been working on for years, and facing teachers who were openly prejudiced against her for that skip, expecting her to fail, DD set about proving them wrong. She took control of all her assignments and homework, and managed to get all of it in early or on time, with almost no supervision by DW and I. Since then, she has even pushed us away from helping on spelling/vocabulary studying.

Before then, we had to be active managers of her homework, and especially the more complicated projects, or she'd procrastinate until the last night, then melt down and cry for help.