Teacher & Caretaker Resources
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Building Executive Functioning Skills Can Be Fun
https://www.edutopia.org/article/building-executive-function-skills-can-be-fun
This article shares strategies to help young children develop executive functioning skills.
Enhancing and Practicing Executive Function Skills with Children from Infancy to Adolescence
Enhancing and Practicing Executive Function Skills with Children
The Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University created this pamphlet that details games and activities to help develop executive functioning skills.
Yale Child Study Center
https://medicine.yale.edu/childstudy/
The Yale Child Study Center improves the mental health of children and families, advances understanding of their psychological and developmental needs, and treats and prevents childhood mental illness through research, clinical practice, and professional training.
Think-Aloud Strategy
https://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/think_alouds
Think-alouds are a strategy that can be used to model how skilled thinkers understand what they are reading.
Concrete Ways To Help Students Self-Regulate And Prioritize Work
A resource for teachers about how to support students recognize, name, and control ones emotions.
Child Mind Institute
https://childmind.org/audience/for-educators/
The Child Mind Institute is a resource for educators to learn strategies that can be used to identify and respond effectively to children with signs of a mental health or learning disorder.
Stop. Think. Connect.
https://www.cisa.gov/stopthinkconnect
The STOP.THINK.CONNECT campaign is a national public awareness campaign aimed at increasing understanding of internet safety and security.
Everything You Need to Know About Setting Up a School Sensory Path
https://www.weareteachers.com/sensory-path/
A sensory path is another great movement activity for children to stretch and get their wiggles out!
Developing Lifelong Learners
https://www.nichd.nih.gov/newsroom/digital-media/videos/videos-lifelong-learners
This series of videos were created by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to share expert tips about how to encourage lifelong learning in children.