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Raising Capable Kids: A Seminar for Pro-Active Parents

Executive function kids

Marin Mommies presents a guest article from Innovative Learning Services.

Expert Tips to Grow Executive Function Skills at Home

"The single greatest predictor of academic success is executive function. It even trumps IQ."
—John Medina, Brain Rules

Here’s what parents can do about it.  

Executive function skills are high-level mental processes that allow us to regulate behavior over time in order to achieve long-term goals.  Nurturing these skills from a young age can have a bigger impact on your child’s education and long-term well-being than other factors - including IQ, school choice, or delaying kindergarten.  Yes, it’s that important.

This practical seminar empowers parents to sow the seeds of executive function at home when kids are young and more excited about parental involvement - when opportunities to make a big difference abound.

Combining 20 years of experience in K-12 schools with expertise in learning disabilities, ADHD, executive function and child development, Dan Leibowitz, M.Ed., M.Sped. CET offers proven advice for nurturing kids’ executive skills and problem-solving abilities in our hurried, distracted world.

This engaging, 90-minute seminar introduces a program that helps parents:

  • Understand a simple model of executive function that enables more responsive, helpful parenting

  • Foster routines, habits and home environments that help kids regulate behavior and gain independence

  • Recognize the impact of screen time on the development of self-regulation and behavior inhibition

  • Learn strategies and techniques for more responsive and productive homework support

  • Collaborate with teachers to build home-school partnerships

  • Make a pro-active plan to support children’s healthy growth and development in these key areas.

Seminar & Registration Details

Who: Parents of kids in Kindergarten through age 12
When: November 9, 2016, 9:15–10:45 am
Where: Mill Valley Community Center, Mountain View room;

Space is limited—Register now

Investment: $75

Materials: Participants will receive a Google Drive folder of useful handouts and materials. Print it, look it over and bring to the seminar!

Executive function

Scientists who study executive function skills refer to them as the biological foundation for school readiness.  Acquiring the early building  blocks of these skills is one of the most important and challenging tasks of the early childhood years. The lifelong importance of these skills and their effect on learning makes it clear that parents need to  know how to foster the development of executive function skills and understand the conditions that appear to undermine them.

Source: Building the Brain’s “Air Traffic Control System”: How Early Experiences Shape the Development of Executive Function. Center on the Developing Child — Harvard University.