Supporting Student Executive Functions

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In <em>Supporting Student Executive Functions</em> two clinical and classroom experts deliver an insightful and accessible guide to executive functioning skills.</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Lisa Carey Ed.D. and Alexis Reid M.A. explain how these skills develop how executive functioning challenges show up in the classroom and how if unaddressed those challenges interfere with student learning.</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Part I: Understanding Executive Functioning</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> builds an understanding of the science of executive functioning and how it develops during the K-12 years. </span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Part II: Developing and Supporting Executive Function </strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>offers a practical example-rich approach to help educators develop and support students' executive functions with tips suggestions and action steps. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Building on the research-backed Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Guidelines the authors pay special attention to the Guideline Provide options for Executive Functions to show which types of supports are most meaningful at different stages of a student's K-12 journey.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Educators-but also medical professionals caregivers and parents and students themselves-will gain a deeper understanding of the latest science on executive functioning as well as valuable easy-to-implement strategies to use in the classroom today.</span></p>