SMARTS Stories Archives

Posted February 1, 2023

When it comes to teaching executive function strategies, research has demonstrated that explicit, systematic, structured, and scaffolded...

Posted October 21, 2020

ResearchILD’s 35th Annual Learning Differences Conference brought together educators from across the globe to hear from speakers at the...

Posted March 19, 2020

As schools turn to distance learning, how will students with dyslexia, ADHD, and other learning differences fare? Learning remotely can exacerbate...

Posted October 17, 2018

The SMARTS Executive Function Curriculum has been helping students with ADHD and learning differences for a long time—long enough to see some of...

Posted April 19, 2017

Here at SMARTS we always love to hear stories of students who have learned to take a strategic approach to their schoolwork. Teaching executive...

Posted April 4, 2017

I have been teaching executive function strategies to students with ADHD, dyslexia, and other learning differences for what feels like a long...

Posted March 23, 2017

At the recent Learning Differences Conference, the SMARTS team presented a workshop on strategies that foster metacogntion, or self-awareness, in...

Posted March 8, 2017

This is Part 3 in the story of how SMARTS is being implemented at the Dorchester Conservatory Lab Charter School. Catch up on Part 1 and Part 2...

Posted March 7, 2017

This is Part 2 in the story of how SMARTS is being implemented at the Dorchester Conservatory Lab Charter School. Catch up on Part 1 here! Today...

Posted March 3, 2017

I’m Jamie Cutler, marketing director for the SMARTS Online curriculum, and recently I had the opportunity to be an observer in a classroom...

Posted January 10, 2017

Happy New Year from the SMARTS program! I’d like to share with you a highlights video featuring the inspirational speeches given by former...

Posted December 15, 2016

This is the second half of Lily Corman Penzel’s story on joining SMARTS. Check out Part 1 here. “I don’t know how many of you in this...