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Webinar Recording Title Page- Middle and High School EF Strategies.

Dec 11, 2024

Middle and High School Executive Function Strategies | Webinar Recording

Join Landmark Outreach Associate Director Keryn Kwedor and High School educator Pauline Samuelsen as they discuss the comorbidity between LBLD and executive function with a focus on valuable classroom strategies that can help students in upper grades meet their goals.

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Nov 20, 2024

Elementary Classroom Executive Function Strategies | Webinar Recording

Join Landmark Outreach Associate Director Keryn Kwedor and Landmark Elementary School educator Meg Arnio as they discuss the comorbidity between LBLD and executive function, focusing on easy-to-implement classroom strategies for elementary-aged students.

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Nov 14, 2024

Best Practices for Executive Function Instruction

In elementary school, students are introduced to routines and organizational methods. Teachers may color-code materials by subject matter, introduce basic desk/cubby organizational skills, and work on time awareness with schedules, timers, and clocks. These basic study skills are meant to reinforce structure and provide clear expectations. Once students reach upper elementary and middle school grades,

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Oct 23, 2024

Executive Function Explained | Webinar Recording

Join Margot Marcou as she demystifies executive function (EF) by defining key terms and exploring the nuances of its many aspects, from activating work to self-regulating attention and action. She will also introduce a study skills framework to support EF.

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Oct 15, 2024

Harnessing Executive Function: The Role of Reflection in Student Learning

Self-reflection is not easy. Our ability to non-judgmentally reflect on our needs, habits, and behaviors and then adjust our actions according to the task at hand is ongoing work for most adults. The more awareness we bring to this process – in other words, the more we engage in metacognition – the more grounded and

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Oct 8, 2024

Self-Reflection and Executive Function

Reflection in Action To get important insights into their students’ skills, classroom teachers can provide students with simple questionnaires about their work habits and attitudes towards school and other routines. If students complete self-questionnaires at the beginning of the school year, the classroom teacher can be provided with knowledge about their strengths, weaknesses, interests, and

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Sep 9, 2024

Executive Function Essentials: Identifying and Boosting Motivation in Students

Motivation is why we do the things we do. It’s a crucial element in supporting children with learning differences as studies have shown that students with learning disabilities experience lower levels of motivation than their peers without disabilities. Feeling overwhelmed, under-challenged, or threatened can have a negative impact on motivation. When supporting students, particularly those

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Sep 1, 2024

What is Executive Function?

Impact on Schooling Landmark Outreach has publications that synthesize the research and outline how to best support students’ executive function processes in the classroom. According to Patricia W. Newhall author of Language-Based Learning Series: Executive Function: Foundations for Learning and Teaching, “Executive Function is the brain’s ability to coordinate the cognitive and psychological processes needed

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Aug 16, 2024

AI in the Middle and High School Classroom | Webinar Recording

Learn how AI works, why it is important to understand it, and how it can be implemented in classroom activities. Since this “thing of the future” is here to stay, educators and their students need to know how to use it properly as a tool for critical thinking instead of a replacement for original work.

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Free Resources for Educators

Learn about recent research and explore instructional strategies to support your students with SLD.

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