Building Executive Function Skills: It Starts With the Adults

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Building Executive Function Skills: It Starts With the Adults

Executive function skills like planning, organization, initiative, emotional regulation, and cognitive flexibility are crucial for students and for staff members as they navigate through the challenges of the school year.

Assessing adult strengths and growth areas first builds educators’ capacity to respond to stressful interactions with a new lens and provides positive models for students. Learn how to improve school culture and teacher retention by empowering staff to leverage their executive skill strengths.

Watch this webinar to:

Become aware of adult executive skill assessment
Learn strategies to help grade-level teams collaborate using strengths
Create plans that will use executive skill strengths to improve motivation

Dr. Jenny Barkac

Certified Conscious Discipline Trainer

Jenny Barkac has a Doctoral Degree in Education with an emphasis in Instructional Leadership, a Master’s Degree in Early Childhood Education and a Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Education. She has been in the education field for over 28 years as a teacher, behavior interventionist, and adjunct professor. Jenny views problem behavior as a skill deficit just like math and reading and is skilled in prevention strategies that can be used in daily routines. Her passion is designing behavior interventions that teach missing skills so that problem behavior can be changed.

Trudy Bender

Sr. Manager of Thought Leadership Content, Branching Minds

Trudy Bender is Senior Manager of Thought Leadership Content at Branching Minds and a Nationally Certified School Psychologist with experience as a teacher, school psychologist, and district administrator. As Waco ISD’s Coordinator of District Behavior Intervention, she reduced exclusionary discipline, implemented a Multi-Tiered System of Supports for Behavior, and developed multi-year teacher training in classroom management and behavior intervention.

Building Executive Function Skills: It Starts With the Adults

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Meet the Presenters

Dr. Jenny Barkac

Trudy Bender