Executive Skills Expert to Present Virtual Training for Parents on Sept. 14

Pass on this opportunity to any parent who may be interested!

The Family & Educator Partnership strives to provide families and the community with training to help their students in the classroom. In doing so, Heartland AEA is excited to announce an upcoming learning session provided by Peg Dawson, a field expert on Executive Skills. This virtual training is designed to help students achieve success in school and in life. No registration is required. 

Smart but Scattered: Helping Children and Teens Strengthen Executive Skills to Reach Their Full Potential 

Sept. 14, 2021 

6:30 p.m. Central Time (U.S. and Canada) 

Zoom Meeting Link

Executive skills are critical to the acquisition of academic skills, but, more importantly, they are the skills students need to get things done. They are brain-based skills such as task initiation, sustained attention, working memory, planning, organization and goal-directed persistence that are absolutely critical to school success. Some students seem to acquire them naturally, but many students struggle with them. Dr. Peg Dawson, co-author of the books Smart but Scattered and Smart but Scattered Teens, will describe how these skills develop throughout childhood and suggest strategies parents can use to help children acquire the critical skills they need to be successful students. 

Peg Dawson, Ed.D., is a school psychologist by training with expertise in the assessment of learning and attention disorders, is a past president of the National Association of School Psychologists and a recipient of NASP’s Lifetime Achievement Award.