Executive Functioning • In-Person

Do you have a student whose backpack is exploding? Do kids in your room have a hard time finding their pencil, getting started on work, staying focused, and finishing up?

Executive Functioning (EF) is a set of skills that help us work towards completing a goal. Students with a range of needs and different diagnoses often have EF challenges. In inclusive classrooms, EF supports can help these capable kids learn and feel successful.

In this interactive workshop you will:

• Discover the 11 Executive Functioning skills and how they help students get things done—well, on time, and completely
• Create student executive functioning profiles, identifying relative strengths and needs
• Explore and create strategies that can help students who are stuck or disorganized
• Develop class-wide strategies to benefit all your students
• ...and you may even learn a thing or two about your own executive functioning profile!

Participants receive:

• A certificate of completion for 5 contact hours of PD
• Executive Functioning Quick Reference Guide
• Materials to turn-key core learnings to colleagues
• A surprise freebie to help your students (or you!) to learn, get organized, and self-regulate

The workshops provide teachers with a strengths-based lens and practical take-home strategies to make their classrooms inclusive and accessible to all students.

Workshops are limited to 20 participants to ensure participants have the materials, attention, and opportunities to interact that allow them to make this a valuable learning experience.

The location in downtown Brooklyn is accessible by many trains: 2 /3 / A / C / F / R / B / Q. Parking is also available.

About your facilitator

Aaron Lanou is an inclusive education coach working with teachers, schools, and organizations to implement strengths-based instruction and supports for autistic students and all kids with a variety of academic, executive functioning, and social support needs.

Through the lens of Universal Design for learning, Aaron works with educators to consider the kid in context, examining the environment, demands, and expectations as the starting point for helping students be successful. He specializes in helping teachers use clear and purposeful visual supports, focused graphic organizers, clarity and structure in instruction based on principles of learning and memory, and a range of executive functioning supports and other scaffolds. Committed to centering disabled perspectives, Aaron has learned from and alongside his students with disabilities and collaborates frequently with autistic colleagues and presenters.

A member of Carol Gray’s Team Social Stories, Aaron also provides Social Stories(TM) workshop and collaborates with Carol and the team to continually update and refine the Social Stories philosophy and approach.

Aaron started his career as a special education teacher and was previously Executive Director of the Nest Support Project at New York University, leading the nation’s largest inclusion program for autistic students. Aaron has presented nationally and internationally and has been adjunct faculty at Hunter College and NYU.

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