Help K-8 Students with Executive Functioning Needs: A Conversation with a Colleague

This episode features Betsy Hubbard, an experienced educator and co-author at Two Writing Teachers. The discussion explores the critical role of executive functioning skills in writing and how deficits in these areas can impact students' performance. Betsy shares practical strategies for teachers to support executive functioning in writing workshops, including techniques for breaking tasks into manageable chunks and providing organizational templates. The episode also covers the importance of incorporating executive functioning activities into the classroom environment. It offers examples of self-regulation techniques to help students overcome challenges in the writing process.

Previous TWT Podcast Episodes Mentioned

• Accommodations for Access to Writing Instruction
• Build Writing Confidence with the "Ready, Do, Done" Model
• Co-Create Writing Goals
• Unlock Strategies for Task Initiation

Go Deeper

• Contingency Maps for Writing Workshops
• FLIPP the Switch
• Quick Facts on Executive Functions from Child Mind Institute

More About Betsy Hubbard: 

• Personal Blogs
  • I’m Living My Words
  • The Power of Poetry
• TWTBlog Posts
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