Relationship building is the single most important way you can impact a child’s life. So often, kids actually can’t learn from someone they can’t connect with. I’m also convinced that building a strong relationship with a kid or young adult diminishes a huge number of behavior challenges. Many times I worked with students who were […]
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Building Executive Functioning Skills Through Classroom Discussions
Discussions and peer dialogue are powerful evidence-based strategies for kids and teens. While this learning technique can be used with all subject and content areas from reading to mathematics, it’s also worth using for strengthening executive functioning skills. Executive functioning skills are the foundational brain-based skills that help us plan, organize, get started, focus, manage […]
Helping Middle School Kids Build Self-Awareness Skills
What is Self-Awareness? Self-awareness is having a clear and accurate understanding of your own strengths, weaknesses, values, feelings, and hopes for the future. These are skills that kids and young adults need to be successful. Being more self-aware can help learners improve their grades and performance at school, build stronger friendships, feel happier, and ultimately […]
Fall and Autumn Activities to Build Social-Emotional Skills
Fall and Autumn Activities to Build Social-Emotional Skills
7 Ways to Introduce Executive Functions
Executive functioning skills are the building blocks to success. These are the skills that help us plan, organize, prioritize, start tasks, manage our time, and work through challenges. Without a doubt, these are skills we all use every day, and that includes children and teens. So you want to teach executive functioning skills to kids […]
Summer Learning Ideas to Build Executive Functioning Skills
Summer Learning Ideas to Build Executive Functioning Skills
Using Nature to Build Social-Emotional Skills
Being outside in the great outdoors is highly motivating for children and teens. There is so much to explore, learn, and be curious about. It’s one of the reasons why using nature to build social-emotional skills just makes sense. Spending more time outside is good for our physical and emotional well-being. Research even tells us […]
12 Simple Ways to Practice Mindfulness
Mindfulness is a self-regulation strategy. With practice, it can help us feel calm, confident, and focused. And while it’s very helpful for us, as adults, mindfulness is a powerful skill we can teach to children and young adults. The goal of this article is to promote simple mindful strategies you can try with your students […]
10 Brain Games to Boost Executive Functioning Skills
For kids and teens who struggle with basic executive functioning skills, improving them isn’t always easy. Brain games can help with this by making it fun to practice skills like organization, time management, attention, and working memory. Whether kids are finding words in a puzzle or deciphering a hidden code, brain games turn a fun […]
12+ Social Emotional Skills that Board Games Build
Games are one of the most engaging and meaningful ways to practice social-emotional skills with children and young adults. While there are many fancy online games and activities, sometimes you can’t beat an old board game. Board games are simple, predictable, and easy to pull out whenever you have some extra time during class. In […]
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