Growing Executive Function: Empowering Secondary Students With Skills for Lifelong Success (Executive function made easy for teachers)

Author and educator Sarah Kesty offers educators practical tools to teach executive function skills—such as planning, time management, and organization—through classroom strategies, structured lessons, and academic coaching. By integrating these skills into daily routines, teachers can reduce classroom frustration while empowering students to develop self-awareness, responsibility, independence, and ownership of their learning behaviors through practical strategies and reflective exercises. Grades 6–12 teachers can use this book to: Understand integral facets of executive function and its impacts on student learning Master effective lesson plan structure to instill core executive function skills Engage in academic coaching conversations to build students’ skills and self-awareness Adopt strategies to encourage executive function for students with diverse learning needs Develop support systems for students struggling with executive function development Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Starting With Executive Function 101 Chapter 2: Creating the Executive Function–Empowered Classroom Chapter 3: Teaching Executive Function Skills Chapter 4: Understanding Executive Function Coaching Chapter 5: Exploring Executive Function Deficits Chapter 6: Planning Executive Function Supports Epilogue Appendix References and Resources Index