Children’s challenging behavior communicates to adults that the child does not feel safe, does not feel connected, and/or needs help with a missing or emerging executive skill: attention, time management, organization, prioritization, working memory, impulse control/emotional regulation, flexibility, empathy, metacognition, goal persistence/achievement and task initiation.

The Executive Skill Lending Library provides examples of specific ways to help children with each executive skill. It can be used to create intervention plans for children with chronic academic and behavioral issues.

Age

• Adults

Helps with

• Social and emotional learning
• Self-regulation
• Problem solving
• Attention
• Time management
• Organization
• Prioritization
• Working memory
• Impulse control/emotional regulation
• Flexibility
• Empathy
• Metacognition
• Goal persistence/achievement
• Task initiation
• Implementation of Conscious Discipline

Use

• Tool for educators and parents to scaffold executive skills in children

Format

• One page, single-sided

Materials

• Printed Executive Skill Lending Library

Related Resources

• Response to Intervention and Conscious Discipline
• Feeling Faces: Happy, Sad, Angry, Scared
• Five Steps to Self-Regulation Icons

Related Products

• The NEW Conscious Discipline Book- Expanded and Updated
• Self-Regulation Book Value Pack
• Managing Emotional Mayhem
• I Love You Rituals Value Pack