These are good ideas and tips that we may have to try ourselves.
The J(F)DI sink or swim approach as the volume increased actually did get our DD to focus more. However, the above tips to seem to be a smarter approach than the one that we have used.
Our DD10 is whole grade accelerated once with an addition 2 years in Maths and she is also doing a year long online composition class online.
Our plan is to get her to be able to crank out the written assignments on auto and for the Maths parts of science to be a breeze so that the modern AP busywork until 3am every night on top of extra curriculars overload should not happen later on in high school, But in Mike Tyson's immortal words...
Thanks for the tips - will let the first few middle school weeks ease by before trying any of the above but I am glad to have them in my back pocket now.
