Executive Function Research Network
Minds in Action: Enhancing Learning with Essential Life Skills
Between
multiple classes, juggling assignments, making friends, and participating in extracurricular activities, how can we help students develop the necessary life skills to help them succeed?
Executive function (EF) skills are foundational to all learning and essential for preparing students for the future; these skills include problem-solving, time management, sustaining attention, organization, and more. Research shows that these neurocognitive skills are more predictive of student readiness for college, career, and life than IQ or socio-economic status.
Join AASA's new research network to learn alongside other district leaders about the importance of these skills and leverage the latest insights to enhance your students' learning outcomes.
Participants will:
Gain latest knowledge on brain function and how learning really happens
Receive an introduction to EF and its role in teaching and learning
Participate in tool development and research to help the field of education and support school leaders and teachers to prepare learners for the future
Leave with new research-based ideas and actions to improve teaching and learning in your district
This research network is designed for superintendents. Superintendents may invite up to three of their team members to attend the network’s virtual meetings.
In-person Meetings:
- Kickoff: October 24-25, 2024, Atlanta (Gwinnett County Schools)
- March 6, 2025 | NCE 2025, New Orleans
Virtual Meetings:
- December 4, 2024
- January 21, 2025
- February 19, 2025
- April 15, 2025
- May 15, 2025
Program Leads, Researchers and Advisors
Details
October 24, 2024 to May 15, 2025
$2,000
Member Price
$2,500
Non-Member Price
Not a member? Join today.
Register TodayContact
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Bryan Joffe
Director, Children's Programs
AASA, The School Superintendents Association
703-875-0769
"Executive Function Skills in a Comprehensive Curriculum"
By Philip David Zelazo
"Scientific research on the developing brain has confirmed what many educators have long known: Learning, particularly in school settings, requires not only attention to what is being taught, but also a set of attention-regulation skills that make it possible for students to focus their attention, ignore distractions, keep information in mind, adopt new perspectives and manage their emotions and behavior.
