Executive Function Cohort

Minds in Action: Enhancing Learning with Essential Life Skills

New research into the brain is helping us better understand how students—and educators—learn best, in essence, the “how” of learning. 

Research has uncovered a set of skills—executive function (EF) skills—that underlie all learning and are essential to students’ success now and in the future. In fact, these neurocognitive skills are more predictive of student readiness for school, college, career, and life than IQ or socio-economic status. They include problem-solving, sustaining attention, taking on challenges, and more. AASA sees these skills as a throughline in its current and future work.

Join AASA's newest professional network to learn the importance of developing students' EF skills to enable students to demonstrate learning in all areas of school, career, and life, as well as co-create tools to transform your current environment into a learning environment.

The EF Cohort covers Early Learning (Birth through 5th grade) and Adolescence (6th Grade through High School).