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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

https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/53132/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.