Guiding Students to Improve Executive Functioning Skills
With explicit coaching, high school students can learn to manage their increasingly complex academic and extracurricular commitments.
October 10, 2023
Executive function is centered in the prefrontal cortex and involves cognitive strategies that include analyzing, problem solving, activating for work, prioritizing, assessing risk, and delaying gratification. This area of the brain does not fully mature until early adulthood, therefore P-12 educators create learning environments that support the growth of executive function and avoid punishing students who exhibit less mature skills.
Bolstering Executive Function in Middle and High School Students
When adults support development of teens’ executive function skills during the critical years of adolescence, it can have a lifelong impact.
October 10, 2023
Connecting Content to Students’ Lives to Boost Engagement
To effectively collaborate and problem-solve, students need to develop a greater understanding of themselves and others.
October 10, 2023
13 Effective Study Strategies to Help Students Learn
Between kindergarten and twelfth grade, students are expected to learn how to study, schedule their time and complete sizable assignments without procrastinating. Yet these skills often aren’t taught explicitly. With
October 10, 2023
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Reading and math have always been parents’ most-requested subjects for tutoring help, but social and emotional health is emerging as a key issue as students begin to return to classrooms.
October 10, 2023
The biggest lesson Overlook students learned this month — kindness counts
Letters of gratitude part of school’s kindness campaign.
October 10, 2023
How to Help Middle School Students Learn to Work Independently
These students can navigate a self-paced class with lots of teacher support at the beginning and clear expectations about assignments.
October 10, 2023
Homework Done Right – Educational Leadership
Meaningful homework serves the curriculum and connects school and home.
October 10, 2023
Moving Minds
BrainPrimers™ are physical activity decks designed to engage students’ attention, memory, self-control, cognitive flexibility, self-regulation, and social interaction through fun physical movements. These mindful, beat-based activities were developed by Dr.
October 10, 2023
10 Free Financial Literacy Games for High School Students
Students can use games to learn money management and financial decision-making.
June 30, 2023
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