“I can’t do this.” It’s a phrase every teacher has heard, often in response to a perceived challenge like writing an essay, solving math equations, or finishing a project. This can feel incredibly frustrating as an educator (or parent), especially when you know that the child should be able to give the task a try. […]
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15 Executive Functioning Strategies Every Learner Should Know
Executive functioning strategies are the tools and techniques that help us begin challenging tasks, work through problems, and achieve our goals. These strategies are important for everyone no matter the age, but especially kids and young adults with growing brains. Ultimately, the right executive functioning strategies teach kids and teens how to work smarter (and […]
How Executive Functioning Challenges Impact Behavior
Executive functioning skills are deeply connected to behavior. When a child or teen struggles with executive functioning skills, it can impact everything. In the classroom, a student may more easily become distracted, lose materials or assignments, and have difficulty even getting started on a task. A child or teen might also struggle to manage their […]
Integrating Executive Functioning in the Secondary Classroom
Executive functioning skills are incredibly important for middle and high school students. We all want students to be better with planning, organization, self-control, and time management. When you think about it, these abilities are the foundation of so much of what our students do, from initiating tasks to problem-solving through challenges. With all that said, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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: […]
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