Family & Educator Partnership Presents: Smart but Scattered -- Helping Children and Teens Strengthen Executive Skills to Reach Their Full Potential

The Family & Educator Partnership strives to provide families and the community training to help their students in the classroom. In doing so, Heartland AEA is excited to announce an upcoming learning session by Peg Dawson, Ed.D., a field expert on Executive Skills. This virtual training is designed to help students achieve success in school and in life. No prior registration is required.

Topic: Heartland AEA Parent Session
Date: Sept. 14, 2021 

Time: 6:30 p.m. Central Time
Join Zoom Meeting: 

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86014358711?pwd=VjQ1TmFWY3lBOUZSQlgvejRlaVpHdz09

Smart but Scattered: Helping Children and Teens Strengthen Executive Skills to Reach Their Full Potential
Executive skills are critical to the acquisition of academic skills, but, more importantly, they are the skills students need to get things done. They are brain-based skills such as task initiation, sustained attention, working memory, planning, organization, and goal-directed persistence that are absolutely critical to school success. Some students seem to acquire them naturally, but many students struggle with them. Dr. Dawson, co-author of the books Smart but Scattered and Smart but Scattered Teens, will describe how these skills develop throughout childhood and suggest strategies parents can use to help children acquire the critical skills they need to be successful students.