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Executive Functioning

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What is Executive Functioning?

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It's the organization center of the brain. It helps us to organize, plan, regulate, and execute our thoughts, actions, and words. It's wildly important!

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Learning about Executive Functioning and strategies for developing EF skills is key to supporting many diverse learners!

Why should I learn about Executive Functioning?

We all have Executive Functioning

Executive Functioning Skills include:

organization
attention and focus
time management
impulse control
emotional regulation

Each person has different skills and deficits in EF

We are all growing and learning better ways. Our EF skills are very dynamic! We can become more organized, just as we can become less focused.

EF is easily impacted

Since Executive Functioning occurs in the frontal lobe of the brain and requires more brain work than most of our systems, it is typically the first to be impacted when the brain needs to prioritize other systems.

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"I didn't realize how much the topic of executive functioning applied to my role. Now that I know about executive functioning, the different types of skills, and how to help the kids in my program develop those skills-I feel so much more effective in using strategies and my teaching has a better and more visible impact."

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