I remember applying for my first job at a party store called Wishing Well. It seemed like an amazing place to work, and I was thrilled to hand in my application (on paper, because it was the 90s after ...

Principal Ian Knox’s thoughtful opinion essay, “Kindergartners Are Struggling With Self-Regulation. How Principals Can Respond ” (July 8, 2025), centers on steps school leaders can take to respond ...

The key to student achievement may lie in first developing a set of cognitive processes that enable students to manage information and complete tasks. No matter what subject or topic an educator is ...

We are regularly bombarded with information about a steep drop in attention spans. Based on its own data in 2015, Microsoft reported that the average attention span had dropped from about 12 seconds ...

In a recent study published in PLoS ONE, researchers assessed the protective effect of sleep on children's executive skills during coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) isolation. Study: Sleep as a ...

Executive function is the mechanism by which our brains manage and prioritize our thoughts, working memory, emotions and actions; Harvard researchers call it our brain’s air traffic control system.

Whether you have a diagnosed condition or just need help staying organized, strategies to improve executive functioning ...

These data suggest a central role for working memory updating in complex motor performance and contribute to our understanding of how individual differences in executive functioning relate to movement ...