To be successful in learning and retaining academic skills, students need strong executive functioning skills. Executive functioning involves a variety of skills such as self-control, emotional regulation, task initiation, organization, mental flexibility, and working memory. This course is designed to target your child's academic needs by providing individualized lessons to teach your child strategies to strengthen their executive functioning. Students will engage in lessons to better understand what executive functioning skills are, why these skills are helpful, and strategies that can be used to improve their learning. Students will complete extension activities to learn strategies such as time blocking, goal setting, brain dumping/prioritizing, and several other evidence based learning strategies that have been proven to be effective in supporting executive functioning and academic success.