When students have a strong foundation of executive functioning skills like planning, organization, and time management, it can help their school year start a lot smoother. On the other hand, when a learner struggles with these very skills, it can cause a rocky start. Just take time to imagine the student who loses all his […]
Keeping Phones Out of the Classroom: 7 Reasons to Consider
Student cell phone use in schools is always a hot topic issue. It’s true that technology can be a fantastic tool to visit websites, play educational games, explore the digital world, and connect with others. However, it’s clear that phone usage in the classroom has become a significant challenge. The first part of this challenge […]
Self-Monitoring Strategies for Kids and Teens
Self-monitoring is an evidence-based strategy that can help kids and teens manage their behaviors, improve attention, and ultimately learn to meet their goals. The idea of self-monitoring is pretty simple; by paying attention to what we’re doing in the moment, we can learn to re-align our current actions with our goal. For all of us, […]
Using Nature to Build Executive Functioning Skills
Being outdoors is highly motivating, engaging, and filled with opportunities to expand our thinking. This makes the great outdoors an excellent place to build executive functioning skills too. What are executive functioning skills? Executive functioning skills are the foundational brain-based abilities we use to plan, organize, start, and complete tasks. They include individual skills like: […]
Why Attention Skills Matter: The power of focus for kids and teens
Attention is an incredibly powerful skill. It’s the ability that helps you to learn new ideas, connect with friends, complete tasks, and achieve your goals. While attention might look different in different settings, it’s a universal skill we all use every day. With that, attention is a worthwhile skill to learn about, practice, and build […]
Using Play to Build Executive Functioning Skills
Play isn’t an extra when it comes to learning; it’s the natural ways that kids learn! During periods of free time and play activities, children are learning and practicing a variety of different skills necessary for success. They think, plan, communicate, create, initiate, and reflect. While at first glance playing might look like just a […]
Foundational Soft Skills Every Teen Should Know
Soft skills are the social and personal skills we use every day. They include abilities like goal-setting, taking initiative, work ethic, and focus. For growing teens and young adults, these skills play an important role in achieving success at school, with friends, at work, and beyond. One important point about soft skills is that they […]
Attention-Restoring Activities for Kids and Teens
In today’s fast-paced digital world, attention fatigue is a big problem. When our focus abilities are pushed to the limit, it can make us feel mentally drained and distracted. This makes the case for developing some attention-restoring strategies, especially for kids and teens with growing brains. Activities that help boost attention provide a pathway to […]
Perseverance Strategies for Kids and Teens
Perseverance is the skill that helps children and teens work through challenges so they can meet their goals. In other words, perseverance is sticking with it! It is one of the most important social-emotional skills that all learners need for success; that’s because we all encounter challenges big and small in our everyday lives. Some […]
Improving Kids’ Focus With Engaging Activities: Find Your Flow!
Attention is an important skill. It’s the ability that helps us learn new ideas, problem-solve through challenges, and complete important tasks. So often in today’s busy world, it can feel difficult to truly give our full attention where we want it to go. There are lots of reasons why we struggle with attention, but one […]
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