Supporting Student Executive Functions - by Lisa Carey & Alexis Reid (Paperback)

About the Book

Experts Carey and Reid help educators identify the ways in which executive function challenges can interfere with student learning and share strategies to help students overcome potential problems.

Book Synopsis

In Supporting Student Executive Functions, two clinical and classroom experts deliver an insightful and accessible guide to executive functioning skills. Lisa Carey, Ed.D., and Alexis Reid, M.A., explain how these skills develop, how executive functioning challenges show up in the classroom, and how, if unaddressed, those challenges interfere with student learning.

Part I: Understanding Executive Functioning builds an understanding of the science of executive functioning and how it develops during the K-12 years.

Part II: Developing and Supporting Executive Function offers a practical, example-rich approach to help educators develop and support students' executive functions with tips, suggestions, and action steps.

Building on the research-backed Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Guidelines, the authors pay special attention to the Guideline "Provide options for Executive Functions" to show which types of supports are most meaningful at different stages of a student's K-12 journey.

Educators-but also medical professionals, caregivers and parents, and students themselves-will gain a deeper understanding of the latest science on executive functioning as well as valuable, easy-to-implement strategies to use in the classroom today.

Review Quotes

"Whether you are a veteran, training, or newly minted teacher, Supporting Student Executive Functions: Insights and Strategies for Educators is the best curbside consult you could ever have and maybe didn't even know you needed. Lisa Carey and Alexis Reid make complicated neurocognitive processes - and how they manifest in learners' behavior - accessible and actionable. After reading this volume, educators will be able to approach even the most confounding lapses of motivation and organization with empathy and effective skill-building." - Jason Fogler, Ph.D., Senior Psychologist and Co-Director, ADHD Program, Brain, Mind, and Behavior Center at Boston Children's Hospital, and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics & Psychology, Harvard Medical School

"Lisa Carey & Alexis Reid have taken a complex subject, executive functions, and made it accessible for educators through the use of personal anecdotes, research studies, examples, and strategies. Even experienced educators will learn something new about executive functions from this book. Carey & Reid have succeeded in making executive functions approachable while simultaneously providing practical applications that can be used immediately in the classroom!" - Jennifer L. Pusateri, author of Transform Your Teaching with Universal Design for Learning