A new year can be a fresh start, making it the perfect time to teach, practice, and build executive functioning skills together. From goal-setting to end of the day reflections, there are countless way to strengthen skills like planning, organization, attention, and self-regulation with your learners. Most importantly, learning about executive functioning skills doesn’t have […]

Quotes can be a powerful tool to motivate and inspire students, but they can also be a strategy to work on executive functioning skills. Kids and teens have growing minds, which is all the more reason to target skills like planning, attention, self-control, organization, and flexibility. These skills are crucial for academic success and life […]

Every teacher is a teacher of executive functioning skills. That’s because skills like planning, organization, attention, and time management are in everything we do. Why integrate executive functioning skills? To understand why it’s valuable to integrate executive functioning skills, it’s important to what these skills are. Executive functioning skills are the core brain-based abilities that […]

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, […]

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: […]

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 […]

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 […]