Category: Free Resources

For all those who struggle with planning (or support someone who does), download our FREE planning worksheet! Inspired by evidence-based approaches to cognitive support (CO-OP and Cognitive Connections) and combined with Sarah’s need for visual structure and color-coding, our planning worksheet is sure to help you organize your thoughts and focus your plan. Download our PLANNING SHEET (PDF) here […]

Planning. It’s a foundational skill that we use for so many daily tasks, big and small. It’s also a very complex skill that depends on many factors. Check out our most recent Brain Bites Lunch ‘n Learn presentation on planning that breaks down the skills involved, developmental expectations, and strategies for successful planning.

What is a thought? Thoughts are abstract concepts that can be hard to understand. Use the strategy of a thought bubble to make this idea more concrete. Hold the thought bubble up to your head and model your own thinking process when solving problems or thinking through considerations. This can help children create a visual […]

Have you heard of the Pomodoro Method? This tried and true method can help increase productivity while weaving in the breaks your kids need. Check out our handout for the details

Understanding our emotions can be tricky! This guided reflection can help make it easier.

Working memory is a person’s ability to hold and manipulate information in their mind. This video explores many different strategies — and combinations of strategies! — for helping students develop and strengthen this skill. Check out our handout for more information

After watching this video, we hope you’ll have a better understanding of why time management is important and be able to recognize when students are struggling with time awareness and management. This module also includes information on the foundational skills that contribute to time management, as well as strategies to support students at various points […]

Building on the specific constructs discussed in the last video, this video explores a more global strategy for supporting students’ planning skills called Goal-Plan-Do-Check. We hope that you learn how to implement and adapt this method for a variety of ages and classroom situations. Check out our handout for more information Click here for a […]

This video is designed to help you “think like a therapist.” As you watch it, we hope you’ll consider a new framework for conceptualizing planning and better understand the complex web of skills that contribute to the act of planning. We’ll also discuss some strategies to support these underlying skills. Check out our handout for […]

Check out our rundown of Metacognitive strategies!

This brief video is designed to help you articulate the value of organization in students’ everyday lives, recognize signs that students may struggle with organization, and be equipped with strategies to support your students’ organization skills. Check out our handout for more information

After you watch this first video, we hope that you’re able to list the different EF skills and understand how they develop. And as you learn about the tight relationship between language and executive functioning, we hope you’ll start to reform your cognitive framework to include EF alongside language development. Check out our handout for […]