Teacher Resources

Parent/Guardian Executive Function Survey -This resource can help a parent recognize their child's strengths, weaknesses, and areas to focus on for growth at home.

Creating a Partnership with Parents/Caregivers - Use this resource to help you reflect on how to build a partnership between your classroom and home in order to build executive function skills.

Creating a Self-Regulation Rubric Step-by-Step -Executive function and self-regulation skills are the mental processes that enable us to plan, focus attention, remember instructions, and juggle multiple tasks successfully. Use this tool to create a self-regulation rubric for your classroom and students.

You Decide -Modify this activity to fit your content to help students begin to develop the skill of consensus building. 

Seeing Multiple Sides - When students are problem-solving or working together as a group to determine a solution, it is important that they can see multiple sides to the problem. Modify this activity to fit your content to help build this important EF Skill in students.

Executive Function Mapped to Increasing Levels of Complex Thinking -This resource is not a learning progression. It is a pathway to leadership thinking.

Using a KidCard -A KidCard is a structure that assists you in capturing data on individual students and the strategies used to support that student.

Executive Function Survey -Use this survey to support students in self-assessing their EF Skills. Use the results to set goals together to improve each student's EF Skills.

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Addressing Behavioral Challenges through a Trauma-Informed Lens -Watch this video to get a better understanding of how to build more positive behaviors in your classroom.

How do Trauma-Informed Teaching and Executive Function Connect? -Learn how these two things are closely linked and how to address them.

Imaginative Play/Role-Play -Use this resource to build EF Skills through various experiences. 

Problem-Solving Graphic Organizer -Use this tool to work through the problem-solution process.