ResearchILD presents:

Executive Function Essentials Toolkit, 2024:

4 professional development workshops dedicated to supporting the teaching of executive function strategies

for all learners.

Executive Function Essentials Toolkit Overview

We will offer four workshops in the Executive Function Essentials series: February 8,13, 29 and March 5. You may register for one or more sessions.

Each workshop is priced at $149 for a 2 hour session. If you choose all four workshops, you will receive a special bundle price of $539.

Following each session, attendees will receive a certificate for 2.0 hours of instruction once they complete a short evaluation form. There will be an optional Q&A session during the last 15 minutes of each session.

All participants will have access to all materials and recordings following each live broadcast until Wednesday, May 1, 2024.

Session 1:

Igniting Success and Reducing Stress: Promoting Self-Understanding and Executive Function in the Classroom

Thursday, February 8, 2024

3:30-5:30 PM, ET on Zoom

Why do students feel so overwhelmed and stressed in school? How can we teach executive function(EF) strategies and promote social-emotional learning (SEL) to reduce stress and to increase student engagement?

This presentation will focus on approaches educators can use to promote metacognitive awareness, executive function and social-emotional learning for every student. Throughout, attendees will learn practical strategies for understanding students’ metacognitive awareness and for teaching goal-setting, flexible problem-solving, organizing, prioritizing, and self-monitoring strategies as part of the classroom curriculum.

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Lynn Meltzer, Ph.D.

President and Director,

Research Institute for Learning and Development

Session 2:

Project-Based Learning and Executive Function

Tuesday, February 13, 2024

3:30-5:30 PM, ET on Zoom

How does having a strong foundation of executive function strategies facilitate successful project-based learning for students? Why do students struggle with the process of project-based learning? In this session, attendees will learn why executive function is essential for successful PBL, and how to integrate instructional moves that strengthen EF strategies.

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Jessica Chiusolo, M.Ed.

SMARTS Instructional Designer and Professional Development Trainer

Laurel Black

Ed.M.

SMARTS Curriculum Designer, Teacher Trainer, and Educational Specialist.

Session 3:

Executive Function and Artificial Intelligence

Thursday, February 29, 2024 (leap year!)

3:30-5:30 PM, ET on Zoom

Is AI an existential threat to education, or is it a powerful tool for individualized instruction? And what are the ramifications for students’ EF strategy use? In this session, attendees will learn the what, why, and how of understanding the impact of AI and how to leverage AI to protect and promote executive function strategy use.

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Michael Greschler,

M.Ed.

SMARTS Program Director and Educational Specialist

Elizabeth Ross, M.A.

SMARTS Media Manager

Session 4:

Procrastination, Focus, and Distraction

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

3:30-5:30 PM, ET on Zoom

How do we help students overcome procrastination and distraction and use executive function strategies to stay focused? This workshop will teach educators, and coaches how to help students develop effective executive function strategies, stay motivated, and reduce procrastination.

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