About
Executive functioning lessons can help teens and tweens become more organized students!
Our curriculum is unique; designed to teach you how to think organized rather than just showing you how to get things done.
Executive functioning refers to seven core skills; impulse control, emotional control, flexible thinking, self-monitoring, planning and prioritizing, task initiation, and organization. Experts often include working memory as an eighth skill, but we believe that the working memory is more like the brain muscle that allows students to process multiple pieces of information at a time and use your executive functions.
By improving your executive functions, we believe that you will become a more successful student. We have built lessons to strengthen your executive functions, such as:
- Practicing how to plan by breaking tasks down into steps.
- Managing time by estimating and prioritizing.
- Learning how to organize your backpacks, desk, and notebooks by giving everything a place.
In these lessons, we provide strategies to support your attention that make it easier for you to get started, stay on task, and carefully monitor your work. We know that homework can be frustrating for some students, so our lessons also offer advice on how to manage your emotions by teaching you how to think flexibly. And ultimately, we will help you to turn in your best work.
Organized Students was created by Damon Korb, M.D., a developmental and behavioral pediatrician with decades of experience assessing and teaching executive function skills, along with other specialists from Center for Developing Minds.