Executive Function

P.S. 207 SCHOOL-WIDE COLOR CODING SYSTEM

Additionally, we have made the following decisions and ask that you help your child color code their materials before returning in September

Grades 3-8:

ELA: Yellow   

Math: Blue  

Science: Green 

Social Studies: Red

    Grades K-2: will have three standardized folders:

Classwork: Yellow  

Homework:  Blue   

Character Education /Social Studies:  Red

Please have folders for these subject areas in these colors to support organizational efforts and where applicable, consider color coding notebooks as well.

Executive Function Parent Workshop Introductory (VIDEO) .

Executive Functioning Workshop 1 & 2 (Google doc.)

Executive Functioning Workshop series (Google doc.)

Executive Functioning:  We are including a few resources for you to consider during this summer.  Teachers will be working on identifying the specific  developmentally appropriate skills that they will focus on next year.  We hope to again offer our end of the year workshops along with others to support this work at the start of the new year.

1. Adele Diamond: How to Help Children Develop EF

Video (YouTube)

2. Eight Ways to Bolster Executive Function in Teens and Tweens

Article (Google doc)

3. Homework Inequality: The Value of Having a Parent Around After School (Google doc)

4. In Brief: Executive Function: Skills for Life and Learning

Video (YouTube)

5. Seven  Systems that Work for Outside-the-Box Thinkers

Podcast (external link)

6. Organizing Students for Learning (external link)