The Kinetic Classroom Professional Development Platform

Since 2014, Dr. Kenney has valued teaching executive function and self-regulation skills to educators, clinicians, and parents online and in person in over 15 countries. Annually, she provides workshops in person for around 3000 clinicians & educators in the UK, Italy, USA, Europe, and Canada, who implement the executive function coaching and cognitive-motor movement activities practiced in Dr. Kenney's clinical practice at Wellington-Alexander Center for the Treatment of Dyslexia in Scottsdale, Arizona.

DO YOU KNOW?

• Executive Function can be a better predictor of the ability to learn, academic achievement, and life-long success than IQ, particularly in children in high-need and poorly-resourced schools (Blair & Razza, 2007; Huizinga et al., 2018; Cortez-Pascual et al., 2019; Willoughby et al., 2019).
• Executive function is so essential for academic achievement that research indicates executive function is often a better predictor of academic achievement than IQ (Blair & Raver, 2015; Micalizzi et al., 2019).
• Children with higher levels of executive function (EF) skills consistently demonstrate higher levels of academic achievement (Willoughby et al. 2019).
• Across the lifespan, people with better executive function skills are more socially competent and have higher graduation rates, better employment outcomes, and better mental health (Diamond, 2014; Diamond & Ling, 2020).

Executive Function Skill Deficits are a leading factor in reading, math, learning, and social-behavioral challenges.

We can improve executive function skills by strengthening the neural pathways that underlie learning while raising children's metacognition around their power to exercise and apply their cognitive skills.