Growing Executive Function

Author and educator Sarah Kesty offers educators practical tools to teach executive function skills-such as planning, time management, and organization-through classroom strategies, structured lessons, and academic coaching. By integrating these skills into daily routines, teachers can reduce classroom frustration while empowering students to develop self-awareness, responsibility, independence, and ownership of their learning behaviors through practical strategies and reflective exercises.



Grades 6–12 teachers can use this book to:


• Understand integral facets of executive function and its impacts on student learning

• Master effective lesson plan structure to instill core executive function skills

• Engage in academic coaching conversations to build students' skills and self-awareness

• Adopt strategies to encourage executive function for students with diverse learning needs

• Develop support systems for students struggling with executive function development


Contents:


Introduction


Chapter 1: Starting With Executive Function 101


Chapter 2: Creating the Executive Function–Empowered Classroom


Chapter 3: Teaching Executive Function Skills


Chapter 4: Understanding Executive Function Coaching


Chapter 5: Exploring Executive Function Deficits


Chapter 6: Planning Executive Function Supports


Epilogue


Appendix


References and Resources


Index