Testimonials From Our Professional Courses

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!

Marydee is an excellent instructor and I find her presentations to be clear, concise, and very well taught. I already feel as if I'm learning fantastic new things to use with new students and families!

Omgoodness! This has been the best and most useful PD I have had in a 20-year education career! Having recently stepped away from teaching in the classroom to take a much needed mid-career change to be an Executive Function coach I could have not asked for a more valuable PD experience. This course has been the synthesis of everything I have learned about EF over the past year (and even 20 years of being in the classroom) and has helped me bridge gaps in my own understanding in such a valuable and useful way. I have enjoyed every video and feel I have grown so much! I have so many takeaways that I am already seeing a benefit in the way my clients are seeing their time! It has even transformed my own thinking and behavior! Thank you so much for sharing this gift with us and I am invigorated to share it with my clients.

I wish all MS and HS students could have a course like this and that teachers had more training in why EF skills are so key for growth, learning and success.

The Teaching Seeing My Time class is one of the best professional development experiences of my teaching career and will forever influence how I work with my students. Marydee is a wonderful teacher -- she's clear, purposeful, and so knowledgeable about the brain and how it works. We are now using the workbook for our 6th grade students at our school, with the idea that it's the perfect tool to support student success in middle school and beyond.

Thank you for this great course and all of your helpful resources! As I go back into the classroom next year, I see myself offering this information to parents to support their early graders. I see where some of these strategies can be implemented in the classroom to establish routines that would hopefully transform into habits for the students. Additionally, I could see myself offering a version of this course as a crash course for middle school families entering high school. Thank you so much!

I really enjoyed this course. I've tried a lot of planners, but having the course to explain how to use it, and provide both exercises and concrete examples, makes a huge difference. For the first time, planning is actually FUN.

Marydee Sklar's online program, "Seeing My Time," proved to be an exemplary course for enhancing executive functioning skills. Despite an extensive 20-year tenure in the teaching profession, this course still provided me with valuable insights and practical strategies to cultivate executive functioning skills tailored to the rapidly evolving digital landscape. It serves as an indispensable resource for educators, families and private practitioners alike, offering effective solutions to alleviate the stress associated with weaknesses in executive functioning areas such as organization, time management, and goal setting.

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.

The Seeing My Time course has been one of the best courses that I have taken on executive function. Participating in this course has helped me to not only support my clients, but also to see my own EF challenges. I have been able to apply strategies to my own life, which I am very grateful. The course is presented on video with many visuals. It is a hands on course where you practice the strategies. Marydee presents the content as if she is in the same room with the students taking the course. I feel ready to use Seeing My Time with my clients and I feel like I have the tools to help my clients be more successful. Thank you!

I have enjoyed learning the Seeing My Time materials and especially learning from Marydee Sklar herself! I like how the program begins with self-assessments for both the student as well as their parent(s). This can lead to some wonderful discussions and self-awareness discoveries. I equally love the emphasis on teaching what executive functions are based on research and brain development. What a wonderful educational tool. Throughout the course, I appreciated having both the teacher's manual as well as the workbooks for each participant. This gave a great structure and helped with the routine for each session as well. Being encouraged to use drawing and doodling for the lessons was great, but really stretched my comfort zone! 🙂 Lastly, all of the forms that are provided are great and I appreciated the many examples that Marydee provided along the way. Her use of catchy phrases also can't be beat! Little by little change happens! Nothing changes if nothing changes!

This is one of the MOST helpful and practical courses I have taken for teaching, ever! They are doing another course this summer starting in June. I am learning an incredible amount about how to better understand, have compassion for, and then teach and support students with executive functioning challenges. We are learning how to actually teach the brain science of executive functioning skills directly to students in a child-friendly way to increase their agency and self-confidence in the process. I found it helpful in the framework of my third graders and would recommend it especially up through the 8th grade. I know that EF has been a big topic of discussion in middle school this year as more kids seem to need more support in the realm of planning, organization, time management, and attention than ever. If any faculty are interested in hearing more about my experience with the course I am more than happy to be in touch and share.

This course is so unique because it combines the best of theory and practical, hands-on strategies in an engaging, flexible learning environment. I felt empowered each week with the new knowledge, tips, and strategies that I learned, and their application was straightforward and modeled. I have pages of notes and even more resources to review, and I can't wait to keep learning!

This course and the ‘Seeing My Time Class for Professionals’ informs teachers and other professionals how the brain learns and what mechanisms of the brain are used to plan and get stuff done. In this age of information overload, we need to help students understand the brain’s basic features, and connect that to how how to accomplish goals large and small. This is especially true for the population of students who have executive function challenges like those with ADHD. I have not found any other curriculum that helps teachers and clinicians teach these concepts in such a fun and engaging way!

Thank you for this amazing course. As an Educational Therapist, I see students (and their parents) all day long who struggle with time management and organizational skills. This course has offered me the ability to add a tremendous tool to their toolbox! The students and parents with whom I have worked through the Seeing My Time curriculum are seeing immediate results which spurs them on to make more positive changes. Thank you for making this course and for the beautifully created resources!

This has been so helpful. I am so grateful to finally have concrete tools and strategies to help my son with ADHD and dyslexia. This has been just the intervention I needed to understand his brain's challenges and to have a meaningful way to help him succeed.

Marydee Sklar has created a high-quality resource that simplifies the process of planning by ‘seeing’ your time. I never quite got why I was always unrealistic with what could be achieved in a time and now I see this crystal clear. For the first time ever, I am on top of my schedule - my head and shoulders are lighter. I now get out of bed in the morning without playing a million scenarios of the day, pulling the covers over my head and then berating myself for wasting time. I am so excited that in my fifth decade of life, I can see possibilities of achieving what I am capable of doing. Thank you.

I am an educational therapist (ET/P) and work with students who benefit from EF skills support. Many of my middle and high school clients are overwhelmed with school load and after-school activities. Seeing My Time helped me guide them hands-on to develop an awareness of their time. It improves the way they see their lives and encourages them to set goals that they can achieve. Moreover, and most importantly, they can see that they can plan downtime with their busy schedule. As a result, it reduced their stress.

I highly recommend taking this course because you will learn beneficial tools and strategies that will change you and your clients' lives.

Thank you, Marydee. This program is a life changer for many. It is not a babysitting tool that requires parents to micromanage. It is a program that empowers students to make their own decisions. It gives them the tools to be successful, less anxious and stressed. They also can feel more independent and stop parents from nagging. 🙂 THANK YOU again!

This course should be a mandatory part of the study program for teachers. None of my courses at university have made this kind of impact. In the last few months, I have talked repeatedly to so many friends, colleagues, and even some parents about parts of this course and I will continue to advocate for it. Every week brought a new topic that surprised me and made me want to change my ways of teaching and/or learning.

This course was the most interesting and valuable I have done as a teacher so far! You will learn so much more about the brain and how people with executive functioning think and act. Most of all, it helps me as a teacher and educator to understand them better and have even more patience for struggling students. I am glad that I have learned skills and ways to support students through my knowledge from this course and to use them in the future!

THANK YOU!

Thank you, Marydee and colleagues, for this very useful course. As an Educational Therapist, I really wanted a good intervention that addressed executive function skills and this approach really does that for several major skills. I’ve learned a lot from reading everyone’s weekly posts as well as the videos and materials and am excited to begin using Seeing My Time with new clients.

This course was wonderfully structured to support learning! The short videos made it easy to fit into my busy schedule and key concepts were reinforced throughout the course. As a speech-language pathologist and brain injury specialist, I found the course very refreshing, with new ideas and information. I especially appreciated the visual components, the systematic approach to learning, and the emphasis on metacognition. Thank you!

This course was absolutely fantastic! I have already had over 300 hours of ADHD coach training and I still learned so much from this course. The information was invaluable for myself and for my coaching practice.

If you want to learn effective and useful executive functioning strategies that work; take the “Seeing My Time” course. I highly recommend this course! Marydee shares proven methodology and interesting research that supports her strategies.

I almost said, "I'll take this course later!," but then used metacognition and decided to be kind to my future self. If you sign up for Marydee's Seeing My Time course, you will be giving yourself and your family member(s) the gift of a lifetime. I promise you will learn so many practical tools to create a life of joy and purpose.

This is one of the most valuable professional development courses I have taken in a LONG time! As an educator of 25 years and a certified yoga and mindfulness teacher, I found this course to be the missing link I've been searching for. These are life skills I wish I'd learned when I was in elementary school. Marydee is an expert who knows how to present the material in a relatable way. She breaks the learning into small chunks and provides video, text and reading materials to help you learn in the best way possible. I found myself looking forward to each new topic being released. I can't wait to apply what I have learned to both my own life and to my teaching. Thank you Marydee!