“Place your attention in the center of your body. You may want to close your eyes. Take a few breaths… Continue Reading »
Category: Executive Function
Strategies for Time Estimation
Have you ever asked a three-year-old how long it takes to cook dinner? Estimates may range from 5 minutes to… Continue Reading »
Cognitive Flexibility for Christmas
Cognitive flexibility is an essential area of executive function; students who struggle to think flexibly are often rigid and easily… Continue Reading »
Music and Executive Function
The next time one of your students complains about having to practice the piano, just tell them that they are… Continue Reading »
3 Essential Time Management Skills
Is the best planner paper or electronic? Should I get a daily planner or one that displays the whole month?… Continue Reading »
Free Webinar: Executive Function and Goal Setting
Executive function is a framework for understanding every student’s own combination of strengths and challenges. These strengths and challenges can… Continue Reading »
Executive Function and Reading
Executive function plays a role in reading beginning in preschool when students are first developing their relationship with language and text.… Continue Reading »
Starting the Year Organized
How do your students’ backpacks look right now? Pretty organized I would bet. They haven’t been given too many papers… Continue Reading »
Water and Executive Function
Though it’s technically September, many of us are still reeling from one of the hottest summers on record. Everyone knows… Continue Reading »
4 Questions to Start College on the Right Foot
It’s that time of year again—fall is getting closer, college freshman are getting excited (and nervous), and every home goods… Continue Reading »