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Executive Function Strategies that empower students to succeed in school and in life.
ABOUT US
Developing strong executive function strategies and learning how to learn provides students with a strong foundation for learning and promotes academic and life success. The mission of the Research Institute for Learning and Development, a 501(c)3 non-profit, is simple: Empower students to understand their own learning profile so they can develop the persistence and resilience they need to succeed in school and in life. There is a path to success for ALL students!!! More Info
FEATURED EVENTS
Summer Summit: Creating Strategic Classrooms and Learning Environments
HOW do we empower students to learn HOW to learn so that we can reduce stress and promote academic success in school and in life? This presentation will provide an overview of executive function and metacognition and will focus on the what, why, how of teaching executive function across the grades and content areas.
Summer Summit: Promoting Flexible Thinking, Emotional Regulation and Self-Monitoring
How can executive function strategies help students to learn when their funnels (or brains) get clogged and they become overwhelmed and anxious? Join us to learn practical, hands-on strategies that help students to think flexibly, overcome obstacles, and reduce stress as they master their work at home and in the classroom.
Summer Summit: The Home-School Connection: Essential for Learning Executive Function Strategies
Whether you are a teacher or a parent, you understand that executive function is critically important for day to day living. Both at home and at school, students need executive function strategies to handle challenging tasks as they set goals, shift flexibly, organize materials and information, and self-monitor and check their behavior and their work.
Summer Summit: Motivation, Procrastination, and Goal Setting: Promoting Independent Learning in Students
What is the relationship between motivation, engagement, and executive function? Join us to learn how to use executive function strategies to promote students who can overcome procrastination and utilize executive function strategies independently in their work.
SMARTS Executive Function Summer Workshop Series
Will you be teaching SMARTS next year? Spend time with the SMARTS team, explore the curriculum, dig into SMARTS strategies, learn with your peers, and develop a customized implementation plan for a new year.
SMARTS Executive Function Summer Workshop Series
Will you be teaching SMARTS next year? Spend time with the SMARTS team, explore the curriculum, dig into SMARTS strategies, learn with your peers, and develop a customized implementation plan for a new year.
SMARTS Executive Function Summer Workshop Series
Will you be teaching SMARTS next year? Spend time with the SMARTS team, explore the curriculum, dig into SMARTS strategies, learn with your peers, and develop a customized implementation plan for a new year.
SMARTS Executive Function Summer Workshop Series
Will you be teaching SMARTS next year? Spend time with the SMARTS team, explore the curriculum, dig into SMARTS strategies, learn with your peers, and develop a customized implementation plan for a new year.
WHAT WE DO
PROGRAM
Our Award-winning SMARTS Executive Function Curriculum provides teachers with tools and resources to help students learn critically important learning strategies for organizing, time management, note taking and more.
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Function Curriculum.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
We conduct on-site and off-site workshops and provide ongoing professional development, consultation and coaching on executive function, metacognition, and strategy instruction.
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Professional Development.
CONFERENCES
Every year, we assemble the top experts in the fields of executive function and learning differences at our two annual Conferences. Educators from across the world attend to learn about new research and applications for their classroom teaching.
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conferences.
