Strategies to improve behavior can make all the difference in the classroom. This is true whether you are a veteran teacher with years of experience, a new educator just starting out, or someone in between. When a classroom is running smoothly, students are engaged, learning new ideas, and working cooperatively. On the other hand, challenging […]
Executive Functioning Activities for the New Year
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 […]
Winter Self-Regulation: 10 Engaging Activities for Kids
Self-regulation is the ability to effectively manage your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It’s the ability that helps kids to manage everyday emotions, focus well on tasks, and positively connect with others. While it’s an important skill throughout the whole year, self-regulation strategies become even more critical for kids before and after winter or holiday break. […]
Conflict Resolution Strategies for the Middle and High School Classroom
Conflict resolution is extremely important for the middle and high school classroom. When a diverse group of students come together in the classroom, there is bound to be disagreements, problems, and misunderstandings. Students in a science group might disagree about the correct technique to use on a project. A student in the classroom might feel […]
Using Quotes to Build Executive Functioning Skills
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 […]
How Mindfulness Strengthens Executive Functioning Skills
Mindfulness is the practice of turning your attention inward to focus on the current moment. While mindful practices are well-known for their abilities to create calm and relaxation, mindfulness also plays a critical role in sharpening our executive functioning skills. This means that we can harness the power of mindfulness to help kids and teens […]
Integrating Executive Functioning Skills: Strategies for Teachers
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 […]
Evidence-Based Attention Strategies for Kids and Teens
In a world filled with so many distractions, we could all use a boost with strategies to help us focus and concentrate in better ways. This is especially true for kids and teens with growing minds. Attention is a foundational skill for success. It’s the ability that helps us listen attentively to learn new information, […]
Executive Functioning Tips for Back to School
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 […]
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