"The single greatest predictor of academic success is executive function. 
It even trumps IQ."  -John Medina, Brain Rules  

​Here’s what parents can do about it.
Raising Capable Kids: Expert Tips to Grow
Executive Function Skills at Home 
A Seminar for Pro-Active Parents


Mill Valley Community Center. 9/6/2017
9:30-11:00 AM
Praise from participants: 
"Your presentation was fantastic today…at times I go to presentations at schools and feel like I get five minutes of value and yours was value packed."

“Well organized presentation.  Open to question, sensitive to audience needs.  Wish it could be longer. Thank you so much!”
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Executive function skills are high-level mental processes that help kids regulate behavior, manage time and complete tasks. Nurturing these skills from a young age can have a bigger impact on your child’s education and long-term well-being than other factors - including IQ, school choice, or delaying kindergarten. ​​
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This practical seminar empowers parents to sow the seeds of executive function at home, when kids are young and more excited about parental involvement - when opportunities to make a big difference abound.  

Combining 20 years of experience in K-12 schools with expertise in learning disabilities, ADHD, executive function and child development, Dan Leibowitz,  M.Ed., M.Sped., C.E.T. offers proven advice for nurturing kids’ executive skills and problem-solving abilities in our hurried, distracted world.  

This engaging, 90-minute seminar introduces program that helps parents:
  • Understand a simple model of executive function that enables more responsive, helpful parenting
  • Foster routines, habits and home environments that help kids regulate behavior and gain independence
  • Recognize the significant impact of screen time on the development of self-regulation and behavior inhibition
  • Learn strategies and techniques for more responsive and productive homework support
  • Collaborate with teachers to build home-school partnerships
  • Make a pro-active plan to support your child’s healthy growth and development in these key areas.​
Details:
  • Who: Parents of kids in Kindergarten through age 11
  • When: September 6, 2017. 9:30-11:00 AM
  • Where: Mill Valley Community Center, Mountain View room​​
  • Investment: $85.00 per person. Financial assistance is available, please contact Dan Leibowitz.
  • Materials: Participants will receive a variety of useful materials. ​
Past participants include:
  • Parents
  • Psychologists and psychiatrists 
  • Current and former independent school administrators
  • Teachers from Bridge the Gap College Prep 
  • Educational Therapists
Scientists who study executive function skills refer to them as the biological foundation for school readiness. Acquiring the early building  blocks of these skills is one of the most important and challenging tasks of the early childhood years. The lifelong importance of these skills and their effect on learning makes it clear that parents need to  be aware of what we now understand about  the development of executive function skills, the experiences that foster the healthy emergence of these skills, and the conditions that appear to undermine them.


Further reading:​
 "I think that we should be focusing on helping children get better at these skills early. I’m hesitant to use the word teach, because when you say teach, people have this image of children sitting like little college students in their seats with somebody lecturing at them.  Promoting these skills should involve weaving them naturally into everyday activities in school and at home in playful and fun ways!"
​-Adele Diamond, PhD
The brain, like any muscle, grows with practice.

Raising Capable Kids teaches parents how to exercise it 
through a set of age-appropriate strategies and household routines
that  influence the development of these core competencies.