Executive Function Strategies for Student Success in Grades 5-8

Are your students struggling with organizing their materials, managing their time, completing homework, planning long-term assignments, or navigating their work digitally? Have you noticed an increasing number of students having difficulty sustaining their attention or exhibiting impulse control during classroom instruction? These are just a sample executive function (EF) skills necessary to be a successful Middle School student.
In this interactive 1-day workshop, learn to define the different EF skills and understand their impact on the brain's ability to be in an optimal state for learning. Discover why it is important to add the teaching of EF skills alongside your academic curriculum. Discuss and develop a scope and sequence for frontloading the explicit instruction of these skills during the first few months of the school year. Leave with specific strategies and tools to increase ongoing student attention and engagement in your classroom activities, while supporting the development of emotional regulation, impulse control, time management, organizational skills, working memory, and problem solving.

Participants will:

• Learn specific strategies and tools to support the development of EF skills in their students
• Understand how to differentiate instruction to build stronger EF skills, while supporting weaker areas as the school year progresses
• Discover ways to be more intentional when physically setting up their classroom spaces throughout the school year
• Observe classrooms where the strategies and tools are being integrated and the impact this is having on students and school culture
• Engage in grade-level and cross-grade-level teams and discussions to support students’ long-term success

The intended audience for this program are Grade 5-8 classroom teachers and administrators.
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CANCELLATION POLICY
Life happens. We understand that there will be times when you cannot attend a workshop that you have registered and paid for.
Registration may be transferred to a different person up to 7 days before a session. However refunds will not be given, and a session missed for any reason will not be refunded.
Below we have outlined our cancellation and refund policy, which we have in place to ensure the most accurate numbers when we secure well in advance locations, catering, and facilitators. Thank you for understanding.
For our ongoing programs or one-day intensives, refunds are available (less a $50 processing fee) up to 22 days before the scheduled starting date. We are unable to provide refunds for cancellations made 21 days or less prior to the first day of a workshop. A missed session that is part of an ongoing program is non-refundable and non-transferrable. For our summer institutes refunds are available (less a $50 processing fee) up to 30 days before the scheduled starting date. We are unable to provide refunds for cancellations made 29 days or less prior to the first day of a summer institute.
Please contact us by email as soon as you know you cannot attend a workshop. This will allow us time to contact our waitlist and hopefully fill your spot.

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