Emerging Learners

Apply Understanding and Compassion

Weekly Series — Behavior Made Easy Kids prefer to do their best if they can. Children act out with behaviors when cognitive demands exceed their ability to respond adaptively. Acting out becomes a natural defense to possible demands. Acting out starts to be easier...

Supporting Self-Regulation

Weekly Series — Developing Thinkers Learning to regulate emotions, feeling and attention is the first step on the road to independence for your child. These skills develop at different rates and at different stages. The skills fall under the umbrella of...

Self Directed Learning with Higher Mental Functions

Weekly Series — Developing Young Thinkers I don’t need the reminder card anymore. Higher mental functions develop through constant practice and internalization of higher mental tools. By gaining access to higher mental functions children can extend their minds...

Developing Higher Mental Functions

Developing Higher Mental Functions Weekly Series — Developing Young Thinkers The alarm goes off. Five year old Johnny rolls over, blinks his eyes a few times. He counts to three, slides the covers and springs out of bed. As his feet hit the floor he already knows the...

Developing Higher Mental Functions – What not to do!

Weekly Series — Developing Young Thinkers The goal for working with emerging learners is to help them develop mental tools that develop higher mental functions. The new students were sitting on the carpet. The teacher facing them, asks who can tell me which shape is...

“Specialized, not Special”

Weekly Series — Developing Young Thinkers He has Special Skills. I felt my anxiety rise as we were called into the meeting. We were sitting at the end of the table, surrounded by the professionals bracing ourselves for the report to follow. Much of the rest of the...

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