The document discusses tools and strategies to support students with executive function challenges. It defines executive function as involving activating, orchestrating, monitoring, evaluating, and adapting different strategies to accomplish tasks. Some strategies and tools mentioned include teaching strategies, reducing cognitive overload, using a paperless toolbelt approach, and alternatives to assignment notebooks and checklists like using digital tools like Vocaroo, Audacity, and VoiceThread. The document encourages becoming an architect for change and implementing guiding principles like promoting independence and flexibility.

1. Tools to Support Executive Functions Karen Janowski [email_address]

2. Executive Function (EF) involves activating , orchestrating , monitoring , evaluating and adapting different strategies to accomplish different tasks.

3. Plan

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6. Strategize

7. Plan B

8. Reflect

11. http:// bit.ly/atiaPD (A – L) http://bit.ly/atiaPD1 (M – N) What strategies are we currently using with our students with executive function challenges?

12. Guiding Principles

14. Teach Strategies

15. Mistake tolerant

16. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/285112924/

17. Reduce cognitive overload

18. Toolbelt Theory (Ira Socol)

19. Paperless What Does that Look like?

20. Promote Independence Flexible, Easy to Use

21. Reduce learned helplessness

22. What are your Guiding Principles?

23. Alternatives to the Assignment Notebook – Let’s get Digital! Vocaroo Audacity VoiceThread Livescribe SmartPen HW online proactively Tools

24. Alternatives to the Checklist Organizer PBL Checklist for Teachers Tools

25. Alternatives bit.ly/ATIAEF2 Tools

26. Become an Architect for Change

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28. Thank you! [email_address]

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