Support Your Students Who Struggle with Time Management and Organization 

Thank you again!! I have learned so much throughout this course. Many strategies I have already put into place with the students that I support.

I am very grateful for the opportunity to have participated in this course. I am proud of myself for thoroughly investing my time and energy, and I found it so rewarding. I have long been interested in learning more about the brain so that I can better support my students and their learning, and this was a great way to dive in. I appreciated the engaging and positive environment, which made the fine details of neuroscience very approachable. Most notably, I am grateful that the course moved seamlessly between theory and practice; I am leaving with a binder full of resources I can easily implement. I feel energized towards changing and adding to aspects of my classroom to better support my students and their development of executive functioning skills. Thank you!

I became very interested in the sketchnoting idea and found the work of Lynda Barry who teaches art at the University of Wisconsin. She has written many graphic books, and her book, Syllabus, is actually her syllabus that she wrote in graphic form. It is so fascinating. She is very interested in how our brains perceive images and how we create and what shuts us down. She had her students memorize an Emily Dickinson poem. I tried to memorize it and was visualizing to help me, but I realized that I could remember best if I put actions into the poem (like a finger play). To my surprise it helped IMMENSELY. And now I'm thinking of how teachers in older grades can use visualizing, moving, and listening to help students get ideas into their working and eventually their long term memories. Fascinating stuff! Thank you, Marydee and Julie for offering this course. I'm learning so much, and my brain is in overdrive!

I really appreciate how practical this course is. I feel confident that I can now move my students through a program to develop their executive functions.

This summer I completed the Building EF Skills in the Classroom. This is truly the best professional development class I have ever taken! The videos, handouts, and discussions were all relevant, accessible, and "right now" useful for my career as a special education teacher. 5-stars and highly recommend!

Thank you for the course and the many resources that were provided throughout. I am constantly trying to learn more about executive function skills development to support the growing need that I see in our school. Our students are very bright, and many are unable to show it due to their EF weaknesses. As the school year ramped up, it was challenging for me to stay on course and get my hours in to complete all aspects, but I made it!

Marydee and the entire team, 

Thank you for the time and dedication in creating this course. I have learned so much and look forward to implementing these skills in my classroom and my home. I will share the how valuable this course is with the administration and teachers at my school. Best of luck in all your future plans and thank you again for making a huge impact in our education and children’s lives.

This course was easy to follow and offered valuable information. I learned a lot and will continue to revisit my notes! Marydee makes the information easy to digest and offers great feedback! I will highly recommend this course!

In the past years I have not looked forward to professional development. Most of the time it didn't apply to me, my subject or grade level. Other times they did not go into enough depth to make it interesting, worthwhile, and applicable in the classroom. This course was just the opposite. It gave just enough insight into the biological processes of the brain that allowed me to have a better understanding of what my students are going through.

It gave valuable information, handouts and examples that I can easily implement into my classroom immediately. It also validated some of the procedures I already use, while adding information so that my procedures can be utilized by all students.

I highly recommend this course based on the information, but also the pace. The videos were easily understandable and to the point. Breaking the information into video snippets made it manageable and I could watch the current week's videos and past video lessons at my leisure. Thank you! I enjoyed the course thoroughly.

This course is truly transformational! It was recommended to me and my colleagues by our learning specialist who had taken it several years ago. She and I think it should be a requirement for all teachers, and we are trying to figure out how to make that happen at our school. I feel so much more knowledgeable and empowered not only to help my students with executive functioning skills but also to educate them and their parents on what works and why. I will be making a number of changes this year that will benefit all of my students.