15-Minute Focus: Executive Function: Strategies to Build Underdeveloped Skills, Maximize Learning, and Unlock Potential

By Noel Foy

Are you working with students who:

Are challenged by organization, transitions, and meeting deadlines? Find it difficult to focus, start tasks, and remember what they need to do? Have trouble self-monitoring and keeping their emotions and impulses in check?

Many students lack strong executive function, the mental processes that govern planning, self-regulation, and goal-directed behavior. But fear not 15-Minute Focus: Executive Function was written with the brain in mind and equips you with the knowledge and tools to:

Clarify Executive Function: Gain a clear understanding of twelve crucial skills and their impact on student success. Identify Struggles: Discover the connection between emotion and learning and how to recognize signs of stress and underdeveloped executive function. Empower Students: Learn practical strategies and interventions to decrease stress and develop executive function in "all kinds of minds." Unlock Potential: Help your students boost their productivity, academic success, behavior, social skills, and autonomy.

This transformative guide is your resource for:

Evidence-Based Practices: Backed by research, these life-changing strategies appeal to students of all ages. Actionable Advice: Learn simple tips and quick techniques you can implement immediately in your classroom, home, counseling session, and life. Downloads and Reproducible Handouts: Make your job easier by helping students stress less, learn more, and get things done

Stop wondering why your students struggle. Start empowering them to thrive

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1953945937
• ISBN13: 9781953945938
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: National Center for Youth Issues
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 5 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 12