Building Executive Function: The Missing Link to Student Achievement

by Nancy Sulla

Educators clamor to provide top-notch lessons and resources for students, but if students lack executive function, even the best materials won't produce the desired results. If students haven’t developed the brain-based skills to focus, catch and correct errors, identify cause-and-effect relationships, and more, they can't make sense of lessons. Executive function is the missing link to student achievement. But how can you develop this in the classroom?



In this new book, bestselling author Nancy Sulla has the answers. She explains how building executive function requires a combination of activities, structures, and teacher facilitation strategies aimed at six increasingly complex life skills that should be the goal of any conscious control, engagement, collaboration, empowerment, efficacy, and leadership. She also offers a variety of examples, activities, and structures fit for every grade level and subject area. With the book’s practical strategies and tools, you will be inspired, armed, and ready to establish a clear framework for building executive function in all your students.

194 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 27, 2017

Reviews

[Cathy Jaskiewicz · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a teacher professional book. Important topic - teaching "executive function" skills such as focus, perseverance, collaboration, empathy, and more. Each of these is broken down into discrete subskills, and suggestions for types of activities and classroom structures to develop them are offered. I will be returning to this book often over the summer as I plan for my class for this fall! Highly recommended for K-12 teachers and administrators.

[Carrie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is geared towards educators of all sorts with really concrete research, simple definitions, and practical activities that have suggestions for various ages. I also think people who engage in presentations as adults as a part of their jobs or facilitate trainings would get a lot out of it.

[Lindsey Dau · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nothing really new. Just a lot of great strategies for the classroom. Some of these strategies could even apply to parenting. Easy read.