2 Day Skills Practice Intensive: Strengthening Executive Skills to Promote School Success
EXPERT: Peg Dawson, Ed.D., NCSP Executive skills are sometimes called “the hidden curriculum.” They are skills such as task initiation, sustained attention, working memory, planning, organization, and goal-directed persistence that […]
Helping Kids Grow Their Own Executive Skills
EXPERT: Dr. Peg Dawson When adults have great executive skills themselves, they run the risk of doing things for kids rather than helping them learn to do for themselves. This […]
Smart But Scattered: Building Executive Skills with Children and Adolescents
EXPERT: Peg Dawson, Ed.D., NCSP
Many students struggle in school because of a key set of skills that underlie academic performance in a fundamental way. Executive skills are brain-based skills such as task initiation, sustained attention, working memory, planning, organization, and goal-directed persistence that are absolutely critical to school success. This workshop, which offers intensive training in how to help these students, will provide a model for understanding what these skills are and how they develop.
