Course | Building Executive Function Skills in the Classroom

Class Dates

January 11 - March 21, 2027

Includes an invitation to join monthly office hours (online) for Q & A during the course and beyond: an opportunity to connect with peers and experienced alumni.

Price

Price does not include optional books.

Upon successful completion of the course, you will receive a certificate of completion for 14 hours of instructional time. If acceptable to your accrediting agency, these hours may count towards professional development units.

Please contact Executive Functioning Success for a discount code if you are with a school or organization that would like to enroll 4 or more people in this course!

Meet Your Instructors

1. Julie Miller
Owner, Time Management Educator, Professional Development Speaker
Julie Miller has been a teacher for over 25 years. In 2013, she began a deep dive into the impact of executive functioning on learners, marking the start of her journey as a time management educator. Today, she works with individual adults, students, and families, and offers engaging presentations on the brain and executive function. Julie is passionate about sharing tools and insights that help people navigate challenges with greater confidence. She brings warmth, curiosity, and clarity to her work, helping clients build strategies that foster independence, resilience, and lasting change.

2. Marydee Sklar
Founder, Time Management Educator
Marydee Sklar is a time management educator who has spent over 25 years teaching students and adults time management, planning and organization from the perspective of the brain. She is the creator of the Seeing My Time® curriculum, the Set Up Success™ student planners and author of the popular book for parents: 50 Tips to Help Students Succeed.

Support Your Students Who Struggle With Time Management and Organization

An online, self-paced course designed for educators supporting students with executive functioning challenges. Learn how to teach time management, planning, and organization to all students.

The Building Executive Function Skills in the Classroom Course is Designed to Help You:

• Develop a strong understanding of the brain to improve your students' EF awareness.
• Analyze how your students' behaviors are affected by their brain's development.
• Teach time management, planning and organization skills to your students.
• Help your students become better learners and be more successful at retaining classroom content.
• Plan and teach your curriculum with students' brain differences in mind.

Integrate Executive Functioning Activities and Supports Into Your Classroom to Build Student Success

Executive Functioning Success created this course to help teachers support and develop their students' executive function skills. You’ll explore relevant research on brain development, learn practical strategies for the K–12 classroom, and gain access to visual models, hands-on activities, and downloadable tools.

This course is virtual and self-paced, allowing you to move through the material on your own schedule. Two in-person Zoom Q&A sessions are included.

Course Details

• Pre-recorded videos, designed to accommodate teachers' busy schedules.
• Once the first ten weeks have been completed, everyone will have access to course content for one year from the start date.
• Course content includes video recordings by Marydee Sklar and interactive communication with Julie Miller and your peers.
• Executive Functioning Success encourages groups of professionals from the same school or organization to join the class and create a strong network for executive function support. Ask about Executive Functioning Success' discount for 4 or more participants.

Course Content

• Current perspectives on brain development and EF skills as they relate to successful classroom behaviors
• Visual instruction models to teach key concepts that are the foundation for developing and improving EF skills
• Hands-on activities and downloadable forms to use with your students as you develop their metacognition, time-management and planning
• A simple and effective binder system for your students' paper management
• Practical information about the brain that will improve your effectiveness as a teacher
• Tips and strategies in this course will improve your own time-management, planning and organization skills as well as your students'!

Who It's For

• Teachers of all grade levels seeking direction in teaching and supporting executive functions
• Counselors and learning specialists who would like to help their students with time management, planning and organization
• Graduates of Teaching Seeing My Time: An Executive Function Curriculum, who would like to learn even more about the brain, executive functions, and how to help their clients

How Building Executive Function Skills in the Classroom Works

• Weekly Videos
Instructional video recordings will be made available via Executive Functioning Success' secure, online classroom weekly during the first 10 weeks. Then content is available for one year from the class start date.

• Online Classroom
Add your impressions, questions and reflections to the online classroom and connect with like-minded peers who are in education professions.

• Apply Strategies in the Classroom
Complete the course with a deep understanding of executive functions and clear, well-defined tools and strategies to apply in your classroom.

Course Reading

These two textbooks are optional and highly recommended.
The readings will enhance your experience of the course and be great resources in the future.

1. Executive Function in the Classroom: Practical Strategies for Improving Performance and Enhancing Skills for All Students, by Christopher Kaufman, PhD.

2. How the Brain Learns by David A. Sousa.