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.
Dr. Kenney is the author of five books and eight cognitive-motor movement programs. Her 2026 book with Mike Kuczala and 12 international authors is titled Move More, Learn More, with 50+ activities for grades PreK-4th to build better foundational skills for learning.
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.
