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How to Become an Executive Functioning Coach: A Step-by-Step Guide

The demand for executive function coaches continues to grow as more people recognize the importance of these skills in academic, personal, and professional success. If you're interested in becoming...

How I Tailored My Own Course of Study to Become an Educational Therapist

It is always a difficult process to find the right graduate program. There are a plethora of options out there, and locating the perfect schooling can be tricky and time-consuming. I wanted to shar...

How to Improve Emotional Intelligence for Students

Because emotional intelligence is thought to be an important step in realizing one's true potential, we must develop EQ in our schools. What is Emotional Intelligence? Emotional intelligence, so...

How to Help Students with Visual Processing Problems

Many students who struggle academically are often misunderstood. They may be bright, articulate, and motivated, yet reading feels slow, written work looks disorganized, and visually demanding task...

How to Address Spelling Needs and Nurture Student Success

This week, I am thrilled to share a case study of a fabulous teacher named Kim from Cape Town in South Africa. Kim teaches a 3rd-grade class at a special needs school. The children range from 10...

How to Make Fun Sight Word Jewelry

As the saying goes, “Out of sight, out of mind.” But what if tricky sight words could stay in sight and be personalized for every learner? This hands-on activity turns reading practice into an enga...

How to Improve Visual Processing: Skills, Strategies & Activities

Visual processing affects far more than reading. It can influence how easily someone copies from the board, finds information on a busy page, remembers what they have seen, interprets maps and gra...

The Teacher Assessment Cycle: Becoming A Better Teacher

Wouldn’t you like to be the first person to know if your lesson was a flop or if your students misinterpreted your words or intentions? Whether you like it or not, your students are continually e...

How to Develop Reading Stamina for Struggling Readers

Discover key strategies to boost reading stamina in children with our blog post. Ideal for teachers and parents looking to make reading enjoyable for young learners.

How to Quickly Improve Visual Tracking for Struggling Readers

Come learn how readers can improve comprehension with tracking skills with apps, visual processing exercises, and activiites.

How to Meet the Individual Writing Needs of Your Students

With large classroom sizes, it is often challenging to meet the individual writing needs of each student. What makes it doubly difficult is that the writing process involves a complicated synergy t...

How Quick Hemisphere Integration Mediations Calm Students

Come learn about how hemisphere integration activities and meditations can help students improve stamina and attention.

Successful Educational Therapy Remediation: Learning How Each Student Thinks

Every student processes information and learns differently because we each have our own, individual cognitive makeup as well as strengths and weaknesses.  As a result, the key to successful remedia...

How Can I Improve My Reading Speed and Comprehension?

There are all sorts of companies that are trying to sell “speed reading” programs and a “quick comprehension fix.” I often evaluate these products, and I continually find them too good to be true. ...

How Your Gut Microbiome Shapes Executive Functioning

Have you ever had a strong gut feeling about something? That instinctive reaction isn’t just about intuition; it’s also a reflection of how deeply connected your gut is to your brain. While we ...

How Multisensory Teaching Works - Inspire Superior, Excited Students

When experiences tap into all our senses as well as a variety of ways that we can process and organize information, not only does it grab our attention, but it becomes extremely memorable. The term...

How Can Books on Tape Improve Reading Speed and Reading Comprehension?

Listening to books on tape or to someone reading aloud can improve reading comprehension because the brain does not have to work on decoding the words but can simply focus on the content. But mere...

10 Reasons to Stop Using Candy to Motivate Students

For generations, teachers, parents, and other professionals have used candy to encourage children to complete difficult tasks, follow directions, or participate in activities they would rather av...

Sensing to Processing: Helping Students Shift from Passive to Active Learning

In every classroom, students are surrounded by a constant flow of sensory input. They hear the teacher’s voice. They see the text on the board. They speak when called on. But here’s the truth: just...

The Secret to Motivating Students

Motivation is thought to be a common culprit that plagues students; however, this couldn't be further from the truth.  As Rick Lavoie said, "It is not that students become unmotivated, because a...

15 Ways to Nurture a Growth Mindset in the Classroom

How can we nurture resilient, active learners who embrace challenging academic material and become successful lifelong learners? Carol Dweck suggests that what we need to do is help students shed a...

An Easy Way to Teach Main Ideas and Details

Understanding main ideas and supporting details is an essential part of any elementary language arts curriculum. This skill helps students read with comprehension, organize information effective...

Teaching Mental Math to All Elementary Students

Many people think that mental math is too difficult for elementary learners, but, in fact, youngsters have wonderful imaginations and capacities to visualize that can be utilized while doing mathem...

Teaching Students to be Mindful and Conscious Learners

According to recent research, a growing number of school-aged children are experiencing a plethora of social, emotional, and behavioral problems that interfere with school success, interpersonal re...

Executive Functioning Tools: Practical Ways to Strengthen Core Skills

Have you ever wondered how your brain manages to keep track of information, tune out distractions, and shift gears when plans change? These abilities are part of executive functioning, which I ofte...

7 Executive Functioning Tools I Recommend to Students

Free (or Mostly Free) Resources That Support the Executive Functioning Brain After more than 25 years working as an educational therapist and executive functioning coach, I have learned tha...

15 Ethical Ways Students Can Use AI Tools to Boost Learning

As an educational therapist and executive functioning coach, I’ve seen how the right technology can help students overcome barriers, work more independently, and show what they truly know. Artifici...

7 Ways Students Can Use Their Inner Voice to Boost Grades

Did you know that students can significantly improve their academic performance by learning how to manage their inner voice? The inner voice consists of those internal thoughts and feelings we ex...

3 Reliable Ways to Improve Attention and Working Memory

Did you know that working memory is often touted to be the best indicator of academic success? However, if a student is easily distracted, the academic content can be missed, or it can fade before ...

Mastering Executive Functions: Proven Strategies to Overcome Chronic Disorganization

In today’s fast-paced world, many of us struggle with chronic disorganization. Whether it’s losing your keys, spending too much time looking for important documents, or feeling overwhelmed by clutt...

Harnessing the Autonomic Nervous System to Enhance Executive Functioning

I’ve been reflecting more and more on how profoundly our bodies and minds interconnect, and one revelation that has recently captivated me is the crucial role the autonomic nervous system (ANS) pla...

Free Text to Speech Software Can Help Students Edit Papers

🗣️ Why Every Student Should Use Text-to-Speech for Writing and Editing Text-to-speech (TTS) software is no longer just an accessibility feature — it’s a powerful learning and editing tool for st...

Inquiry Based Instruction - A Four Step Process to Student Empowerment

Having focused my higher education on lifelong learning, I studied both pedagogy (a child-focused teaching approach) and andragogy (an adult-focused teaching approach). In fact, I believe that many...

Visual Processing Games: 10 Fun Games to Strengthen Visual Skills

Not all learning happens with words. Many academic and everyday tasks depend on strong visual processing skills, yet these abilities are often overlooked until they begin to interfere with...

Auditory Processing Skills: Types, Tests, and Ways to Improve Them

A child may seem distracted or have difficulty understanding spoken information, but the problem may have little to do with attention, effort, or intelligence. Sometimes, the real challenge is mak...

7 Proven Strategies to Overcome Time Blindness and Boost Executive Functions

As an executive functioning coach and educational therapist, I've seen firsthand how time management challenges can deeply affect both academic and personal success. Today, I want to share insights...

Managing Test Anxiety: 8 Executive Function Strategies to Stay Calm and Confident

Test anxiety is a common struggle for many high school students, especially those who feel the pressure to perform well on exams. This overwhelming fear of failure or blanking out during a test can...

Do We Need to Reform Education? Why So Many Students Are Struggling With Executive Functioning.

In my journey as a learning specialist and educational therapist, the surge in calls from concerned parents has been nothing short of a tidal wave. Each conversation echoes a similar refrain...

Strategies that Help Students to Organize Ideas, Build Paragraphs, and Implement Transitions in Their Writing

Organizing ideas and building paragraphs can be a taxing and complicated process for beginning writers. Writing requires multitasking. When some of these tasks are challenging, they can become ov...

What Are Literary Devices? Types, Examples, and Free Handout

Literary devices can be confusing—not only because there are so many of them, but also because terms such as literary devices, literary techniques, literary elements, and figurative language are o...

Why Visualization Skills Offer Key Benefits for Students

Explore Dr. Erica Warren's blog on enhancing learning through visualization. Learn how to assess and develop students' visualization skills to improve memory, comprehension, and motivation. A valua...

Google Docs Voice Typing Commands: Tips & Free Printable

Voice typing has become one of my favorite assistive technology tools because it allows students to express their ideas without the physical demands of handwriting or keyboarding. Whether you're...

Teaching Inference Skills Can Be Fun

Teaching students about how to make inferences can be challenging. Unlike most of the concrete learning that they encounter, this is an abstract notion. However, most students love the idea of fi...

Mindfulness Training Improves Working Memory Capacity

Mindfulness-based approaches to learning are attracting more and more teachers, therapists and school administrators. Mindfulness refers to being completely in touch with and aware of the present ...

Future-Proof Your Mind: Executive Function Skills in the AI Era

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about where we’re headed, not with fear, but with curiosity. AI is moving quickly. Faster than our educational systems, faster than many workplaces, and faster than ...

What Is Dyslexia? Symptoms, Signs, and Myths for Kids

When a child learns they have dyslexia, the way it is explained can shape how they understand themselves as a learner. Some parents worry that sharing the diagnosis may lead to labels, fear, or ...

Comprehensive Remediation for Students with Dyslexia

Dyslexia is consistently found to be associated with academic difficulties. As a result, many of these learners require additional help at school or in their community from a qualified professiona...

Attention Building Activities - Working Memory & Hemisphere Integration

Successful learners are fully engaged, can maintain attention, and activate both hemispheres of their brains. However, many young learners go through their daily classroom activities without being ...