Supporting and Developing Executive Function in the Lower Grades

Led By National Expert And Highly Regarded Presenter: 

Sarah Ward, M.S., CCC/SLP 

A Four-Part Course to Explore Practical Strategies to Improve Executive Function, Processing Speed, Written Expression and Self-Regulation

December 6, January 10, February 27, March 21

  3:00-4:30pm PT

Audience

K-8 educators and educational leaders will find this course valuable and applicable.

Course Overview Description

• Do you have students who are disorganized and may not have the materials they need or even turn in the homework they have completed? Is their desk space, locker or backpack a ‘black hole’ for papers and materials?

• Do you see students who struggle to initiate complex academic assignments, procrastinate and then run out of time to do their ‘best work' or tasks/assignment take twice as long as they should? Do you wish your student had a sense of task urgency?

• Does it seem that they have an inability to breakdown the demands of an assignment and have a sense of how to start? Are they prompt dependent? Are you constantly reminding them of the materials they need and the steps to take?

In this practical strategies seminar you will learn concrete tools to help students manage their attention, time, and materials to initiate the steps towards completing and closing out assignments. Throughout the four sessions, participants will learn structures to teach students to help them keep pace, make timely transitions and follow routines. Sarah Ward will share proven structures to help with the initiation of more open ended and complex assignments. Attendees will walk away with dozens of tools to support students in developing independent executive function skills to self-regulate and manage impulses.

After the Completion of the Workshops Series, Participants Will Be Able To:

• State the functional working definition of  what is meant by the phrase “executive function skills" as it pertains to classroom and therapeutic interventions   
  

• Describe Executive Dysfunction and identify the typical developmental course of executive function skills. 

• Define how situational awareness, self talk, forethought, gesture/movement and episodic memory are the foundational skills for successful task execution 

• Develop an intervention program to foster a student’s ability to form more independent executive function skills by describing practical, easy to implement activities to improve

Session Descriptions

Learn More About Each of These Sessions Here

About the Instructor

Sarah Ward, M.S., CCC/SLP has over 25 years of experience in the treatment of executive dysfunction.  Sarah is an internationally recognized expert on executive function and presents seminars on the programs and strategies she has developed with her Co-Director Kristen Jacobsen. Their 360 Thinking Executive Function Program won the National Organization CHADD's Innovative Promising Practices Award, and they were named one of the Top 10 Professional Development Providers in 2023 by Education Technology Insights.  She has presented to over 1700 public and private schools and organizations worldwide.

Registration

Registration is now open! Please click here to register. 

Participants will register for the full series. In the case that you are not able to attend all three sessions in real time, all registrations include access to session recordings. Recordings should not be shared. 

Pricing

Single Workshop Registration (Includes access to all three workshops and recording*)

Member Schools - $295

  Non-Members - $395

* Link to recordings will remain active for 30 days following each session

Cancellation

Substitutions may be made any time prior to the workshop. Written cancellations received for courses are eligible for a refund after a $50 cancellation fee.