15-Minute Focus: Executive Function: Strategies to Build Underdeveloped Skills, Maximize Learning, and Unlock Potential

Are you working with students who:

• Are challenged by organization, transitions, and meeting deadlines?
• Find it difficult to focus, start tasks, and remember what they need to do?
• Have trouble self-monitoring and keeping their emotions and impulses in check?

Many students lack strong executive function, the mental processes that govern planning, self-regulation, and goal-directed behavior. But fear not! 15-Minute Focus: Executive Function was written with the brain in mind and equips you with the knowledge and tools to:

• Clarify Executive Function: Gain a clear understanding of twelve crucial skills and their impact on student success.
• Identify Struggles: Discover the connection between emotion and learning and how to recognize signs of stress and underdeveloped executive function.
• Empower Students: Learn practical strategies and interventions to decrease stress and develop executive function in ＂all kinds of minds.＂
• Unlock Potential: Help your students boost their productivity, academic success, behavior, social skills, and autonomy.

This transformative guide is your resource for:

• Evidence-Based Practices: Backed by research, these life-changing strategies appeal to students of all ages.
• Actionable Advice: Learn simple tips and quick techniques you can implement immediately in your classroom, home, counseling session, and life.
• Downloads and Reproducible Handouts: Make your job easier by helping students stress less, learn more, and get things done!

Stop wondering why your students struggle. Start empowering them to thrive!

Noel Foy is a mom, grandmother, former teacher, and learning specialist who evolved into a neuroeducational consultant, anxiety/executive function coach, and author.

Commonly known as Neuro Noel, she transforms neuroscience findings into practical applications to reduce the impact of stress on learning and appeal to how the brain learns best. Traditional teaching practices often omit this critical focus and fall short of meeting the needs of many students, resulting in gaps in learning and executive function and an increase in behavioral issues or not reaching one’s true potential.

Via workshops, one-on-one coaching, author visits, and speaking engagements, Noel equips schools, families, and professionals with a toolbox of practical language, responses, and applications that lower stress and build underdeveloped skills sets and mindsets needed to maximize success and experience life-changing outcomes.

Additionally, Noel finds storytelling an approachable and playful way to tackle complex topics. Her books encourage productive change and the will to face fears through courage and friendship.